I no longer own any of these synthesizers.
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UPDATE 10/15/2019: Well, it's been a dozen years since I last set foot in this dusty attic of a webpage, but needless to say, many a synth has come and gone in the time that has passed, and as we approach the 2020s, all who visit here are surely coming from truly archaic origins. Seriously, how did you end up here? Anyway, I am no longer a synth collector at all, having only a few keyboards to mess around on, maybe playing an occasional old Parallax song for fun & to keep from getting rusty. The humble assortment on my Gear Page is all I've got left from a once-mighty 20+ synth collection. UPDATE 6/8/2007: CLICK HERE for a bigger pic of my studio! Here is a separate page for all of the synths that had pages, pics, and MP3 sound files created for them, but are no longer in my undeserving possession (whereas these are the ones I currently still own). Many of these were purchased on a whim on eBay, naturally, but some were deliberately sought out as coveted gear I always wanted but could never afford. For this kind of gear, you've really gotta own it and fiddle with it before figuring out how badly you actually need to own it, ya know? And if it ends up here, well, it's a synth that might've been fantastic but didn't merit the price, physical space it took up in the studio, or who knows what else. Many of my favorite synths of all time are ones that I have owned but no longer do. Hell, some of them were just sold to pay the damned mortgage. I also went through a divorce in 2005. OK, enough excuses. |
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Synth Archive - stuff I no longer own
Click any thumbnail to see the synth!
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Virus Indigo (SOLD) |
Virus kb (SOLD) |
Andromeda A6 (SOLD) |
Nord Lead Anniversary (SOLD) |
01/W FD (SOLD) |
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Mono/Poly (SOLD) |
RK-100 (SOLD) |
Wretch S-1000 Returned to Metasonix |
Little Phatty Tribute Edition (SOLD) |
Minimoog Voyager (SOLD) |
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Matrix-1000 (SOLD) |
OB-SX (SOLD) |
OB-Xa On permanent loan |
Photo-Theremin (SOLD) |
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PG-200 Controller (SOLD) |
By Customsynth (SOLD) |
Super JX (SOLD) |
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DS-250 (SOLD) |
Pro One (SOLD) |
Micro Q (SOLD) |
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CS-50 (SOLD) |
I also owned all of these plastic hunks of joy once upon a time:
(Thumbnails take you to product info found elsewhere online)
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| Alesis HR-16B 1991-1994   |
Ensoniq ESQ-1 1990-1993  |
Ensoniq SQ-1 1993 |
Korg M1 1992-1995 |
Roland D-50 1991-1994 |
Roland JX-305 1999 |
Roland JX-8P 1992 |
Roland MT-32 1989-1992 |
Last but not least, the massive, hulking thing I really learned to play on:
The Lowrey D-325 Holiday {Organ} - Click the image at left to see the front page of the manual, with a great shot of the organ!This elephantine block of 1970s chocolate was purchased by my folks new in 1979, but even it wasn't my first shiny electrical box of keys that my fingers ever touched on a regular basis. When I was 3 or 4 my brother had some kind of Air Organ (here's a pic of me playing it), and around the same time we got our first Lowrey organ. It was either an L-100 Carnival or a Genie-44. Nobody in the family has any no good pictures of it, so I'm going on very dim memory here. UPDATE 2009: I have rescued the D-325 from my mother's condo. She couldn't wait to get rid of it, and I couldn't wait to help her out with that! Now I can once again fire it up and wank out on the "Symphonic Wow" setting, play orchestral arrangements with strings every bit as warm as the Arp Solina, and thump around on the Moog Taurus-style bass pedals. At some point in the '80s my Dad did a top-notch job connecting some RCA outputs so I could theoretically record with it, but until then you'll have to settle for crappy YouTube videos like this one. UPDATE 2019: I still have this organ; it is resting comfortably in my girlfriend's tiki bar and looks & sounds absolutely as spectacular as ever. |
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