philipj

I have a TX81z rack module I found at a thrift-store a couple of years back... I'm working on getting my hands on another kind of DX synth with more capabilities on it. The DX9 was a cheap and easy buy so I grabbed it.

TX81z is a real keeper if I only ever really use it for the Lately Bass preset lol

Also nice JX-8P and CZ-4000...

I have a JX-3P and while it is like a poor man's Jupiter-8 (uses the same filter) the JX-8P would be more useful in a MIDI setup. My Alpha Juno-1 gets more use because of this. 

It looks complicated.

Nice, I still have my old MC-303 since 1998 I play around once in a while.

Yea... Have you heard of the new "Roland 707 Groovebox"...? Someone had suggested getting this one, but I'd already made plans for the "DJ-808 Controller", but it looks very cool. I remember reading about the "Groovebox" back in college around 98 or 99. Always wanted one but never really got one; I was just getting into software based music in 98 using a mod tracker style program to put all of the sounds together. It was a lot of fun doing it that way... It felt like I'd discovered a new way to make music. lol

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Another synth lover!

Lol... Yea it does kind of feel like I'm collecting synthesizers these days. I use to be a comic book collector, but looks like I've swap one thing for another now. ? My first vintage synth was the "Casio CZ"; since then I've acquired a few more synth like the "Roland JX-8P", the "Roland System 8", the "Roland FA-08 Workstation", the "Korg MR1" module, the Yamaha PSR 500, and a some "Yamaha DX" derivative module I can't think of the name of... Trying to build a dream studio for myself. 

My complete hardware synth list is:

Roland:

JX-3P

Alpha Juno-1

HS-80 (Alpha Juno-2 but the keys are busted, works via MIDI)

JV-2080

TB-3

Waldorf:

Blofeld module (black)

Yamaha:

TX-81z

DX9 (doesn't really work anymore but the TX-81z can do everything it can better)

PSS-140 (toy keyboard with some nasty (in a good way) preset FM sounds.

OPL3 (Sound Blaster 2.0... old OPL3 which uses two OPL2 chips) I count this as it is a synth and I can use Adlib Tracker 2 on DOS to make music with it.

E-MU:

ESI-2000 (sampler)

Proteus/1

Kawai:

K1r (nasty 8 bit digital synth but I love it) Has the best one of the best digital choir sounds out of any synth. Used heavily by Warp Records artists (like LFO)

I also have three Casio keyboards:

MT-60

MT-18

MT-140

WOW... You're a veteran collector. lol ?

Don't get used to it.