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If you want to start making investment decisions about a specialized market*, you"re always going to be guessing to some degree; and if you want to improve your odds, you have to do the work to learn the market. There are no simple rules like, 'Sell it all now!' or 'Never sell anything.' Look at SOLD prices (*not* asking prices on current items) on ebay for the gear you"re thinking of letting go. Likewise for the record of sold prices at Reverb.com. You will start seeing what your gear is worth to other people ... at least what it"s worth right now. âââ *Old synths are a specialized market. Some are consistently valuable, often with good reason. Other instruments are ignored or disdained (at least this year). If musicianship, and your musical experiences with others, matter more to you than being super-nuanced about what your brass pad or Moog bass patch sounds like, the whole thing may not make much sense. But the old synth world does have its own logic for someone who"s into that. I personally don"t understand paying a lot for a 'better' brand of beer or coffee...but that"s a real thing to some people too.

Interesting discussion. And Carlos Embale is a boss. ONE MORE IDEA TO PLAY WITH: If you want to learn to play Latin music better, it"s helpful to stop thinking of it as 'Latin music.' Brazilian music is Brazilian music. Cuban music is Cuban music. You can"t just mix and match the rhythmic elements of one tradition with the other (even though they have a common ancestry). This was a common mistake in old 'Latin' grooves on '50s-'60s jazz recordsâoften the drummers and bassists were playing some weird mashup of samba and mambo that (surprise!) never felt as good as real samba *or* real mambo. Not meaning to be pedantic or politically correct here. But if one focuses on one musical tradition or the other, and becomes immersed for a couple years in hearing it, then it"s easier to start feeling and playing it naturally. The catch is, you have to love it so much you WANT to listen to it all day long. Because a musical tradition isn"t one lick or one groove, it"s a whole musical vocabularyâHear the language for a while, then you start speaking it. Hope this is helpful somehow....

There"s a scene in the SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE documentary, where Stevie Wonder wants to re-create the 'guitarish' synth lines at the beginning of 'I Wish' using a 2600 (which presumably was the original synth on the track). The 2600 gives off static noises and refuses to work. Stevie gives up and does the synth parts on a Kurzweil.

Anyone got a link showing an actual Korg announcement about this? Because all I"ve seen is the Jarre talk where he mentions it. And last I saw, the relevant facebook video of that talk, the one that was linked at the start of the GS Korg 2600 thread, is now removed: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/1291289-korg-release-full-sized-arp-2600-a.html https://www.facebook.com/jeanmicheljarre/videos/2668309439915127/ Unless someone here knows something more, this one seems a little sketchy for the moment. fwiw..

It"s on Amazon as a $6 mp3 album, under the name SPEAK LIKE A CHILD.

I"d be curious to know how many people under 40 are aware that some pianos have hammers and strings in them.

I live in a 100 year old apartment building in the city, been here 25 years. Had two rats 20 years ago, and a mouse epidemic a couple years back. In my experience, traditional traps, electric traps, live traps, etc., only work sometimes. Rats are smart, mice are cautious. Blocking holes solved my problem. You have to really search. I found an open pipehole way under the bathtub and a 1/2 (?) crack in the pantry wall, sealed themno more mice. They scratched in the wall near the sealed pipehole for a couple days, then gave up. * Stuff the hole or crack with steel wool, then caulk over the opening so the critter cant push the steel wool out or chew through it. * Im not so sure you can seal a garage, though. Seems like a rat could slip under the big doorrodents can squeeze through a pretty small gap.

Hi. DM12 and Peak owner here. (I have also accumulated various other synths over the years, because I am oldso have some sense of perspective on synth tone, I think.). If you have specific questions/comparisons re Deepmind vs. Peak , I will try to answer if you want. I would say up front that they are *both* instruments you can enjoy and make music with. The Peak costs more and imo there are good reasons for thatboth re its features and because you are paying for Novations good customer support and experience in the synth business. But the Deepmind is also, as you can see from other responses here, not a bad synth. One question: When you say youre considering an analogue synth what are your expectations? In other words, *why* do you want an analogue synth? These days, different people use that word to mean different things...

Have in mind that was one of my early posts in regards of the MOOG One. Yes, I guessed it is a "chipsynth" because the Memorymoog already was (CEM 3320, 3340, 3360 OSCs, VCFs & VCAs) and because the reissues of these chipsbecame available for the market this year. So, for me it was obvious. Up to now there´s no public info about which components are used for the analog signal path, but meanwhile,- and also because other´s in the forum came up w/ insinuation already,- I got the impression MOOG One is a different synth design than the Memorymoog was. Now we´ve read about 14.000 + components and up to 16 voicecards, which leaves room for more speculation. In fact, for it´s price I hope it´s not a "chipsynth" throughout. A.C. A little off-topic: The memorymoog had Curtis 3340 oscs, but the filters were real moog ladder filters, one per voice ... not curtis 3320 filter chips. A nerdy distinction maybe ... but the Moog filters are part of why the MM sounded as sweet as it did. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorymoog https://www.rosensound.com/2017/11/22/the-memorymoog-setting-the-record-straight/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEM_and_SSM_chips_in_synthesizers The One clearly sounds different than the MM in the demos so far, more modern Moog-y and not Curtis-like ... which makes sense since the One uses a Moog osc design, not the 3340 reissue.

A mans reach should exceed his grasp, or whats a heaven for? - Some dead guy

p.s. This is beautiful.

D-05 user here. One other thing that needs to be said: The build quality on this unit is really solid. Roland gets kind of slagged by some in the synth community for their product decisions, but someone over there still cares about making good instruments; vs. flashier stuff from some of the new guys in town that looks to be less consistent. fwiw.

The Stevie Wonder SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE and Band "Brown Album" episodes are also generally amazing. Plus you get to see little snatches of Garth Hudson playing some of the later Roland digital/VA synths, and Stevie doing the multitracked intro to "I Wish" on a Kurzweil after his ARP 2600 refuses to behave . . . not to mention seeing him play the "Village Ghettoland" string arrangement in real time on the old Yamaha "Dream Machine."