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What was your first synthesizer?


Post Posted Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:02 pm
Equinoxe


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AMR wrote:
Jakob BC wrote: (I don't think I'd achieve this learning with a DX7... it doesn't "comunicate" naturally for a child to learn by trial and error).

Today's consoles (PS3 my fav) are the equivalente of the mono/poly aproach, they "react" to natural movements and provide a child a great start-up for dealing with technology (internet, conectivity, multimedia, and so on).
A child maybe wouldn't have that hangup with a DX7 like your own way of thinking about it as an Adult,because you Know its awkward to program without a decent menu system or Knobs etc,sure it doesn't have that Immediacy to its interface like a Knob laiden panel,but a Childs way of thinking isn't that developed,even in a well educated Child

most of the resounding doubt about things in Adolescence is down to knowing the limits,and fear of them,most of which aren't learnt by trial and error but mererly Our way of not exploring things naively enough,we think more about the consequences or ommissions than the fun aspect,because we think outside the Bubble

Children don't have inhibitions or the mindset for reservations or reasoning,or so they don't think about what something can't do,they explore with trial and error but focus less on the error,and hence learn more easily without judgement..

Most Adults who are inhibited because of something that happened in their childhood,yet at the time they didn't focus on why they were reluctant to so something that woud later cause them anxiety in life its only when you realise your actions that you begin to shoulder the doubts

Having a young son gives you that reminder,and its a great therapy to your own outlook on life,its remarkable what they do without fear or doubt,you learn to see the world in a whole new light when you have children of your own,

Thats how everyone should be with Technology..Fearless..
Post Posted Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:27 pm
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AMR wrote:What was my first synth?
A Korg Mono/Poly .
I was 6 or 7.
YOU LUCKY aaaargh! :P
Compare that to my Korg EA-1 I got when I was at least 10.... grumble. :P :lol:
Post Posted Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:35 am
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I borrowed my brother's Ensoniq ESQ1*.
Gave me pratice on keyboard at reproducing "by ear" melodies taken from the radio in the early 90's.

Image

Features nice brass sounds. 8 polyphonic "layers" and a primitive sequencer. Gentle key feeling.

*In fact, that was my first and last synthetizer. :pwned:
Post Posted Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:08 am
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My first synth was a Teisco 60F. A nice little synth.
Life is what you make of it...
Post Posted Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:13 am
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Yeah... didn't you give it away or sell it or something? :(
:mrgreen:
Post Posted Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:49 am
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I remember very well the DX7 / M1 / D-50 era. At that time I was 16 and playing a keyboard in front of an audience (little or big) meant also to have a stylish instrument.
The Korg M1 was so cool for us with that rounded shape, flashing rounded buttons instead of that "ugly and out of fashion terrible pots and colored plastic buttons" of the analog Trident Korgs...
You felt ashame showing a keyboard like that in the garages where young bands have the rehearsals...

By that times, browsing the menus to find the attack time in a TVA envelope was intriguing and we couldn't figure out that the analogs could do the same tweaks in a fraction of time.
Though we were happy (the lucky ones who owned a M1 or a DX7 mk II, the others like me rented one at first...) and we liked to spend that time in programming.

Curious how that nasty Tridents have buried the poor M1s in terms of value over the years.

Data entry instruments, like D-50 or M1 have just a different approach, more reasoned and maybe less immediate than the analogue approach. So the motivation makes the open-minded guy able to enjoy his instrument, at least if he is ready to start from scratch.
If you are already formed in a completely different instrument approach, the data entry synthesizer can become really annoying.
I got used to Roland by that time and when I got my Kurzweil K2000R it was quite difficult to master the instrument. A different world.

P.
Post Posted Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:43 pm
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GeeJee wrote:Yeah... didn't you give it away or sell it or something? :(
:cry: Yes, because I had some financial problems and needed money. It was in perfect shape. But now I have the Microkorg so I' m happy again.
Life is what you make of it...







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