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justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:30 pm

I think my first keyboard was a Yamaha PSR for some sort... First synth was a DIY theremin I built when I was first learning about electronics. Both were in the late '90s. I was probably 16, so 1999?

chaocrator · Post by **chaocrator** » Mon May 03, 2021 5:48 pm

PreenFM2.
bought it to extend my drum kit with clangorous FM sounds.

Blue Eyed Ghost · Post by **Blue Eyed Ghost** » Sun May 09, 2021 11:30 am

Hi, my first hardware synth was an Elektron Analog 4 MKI. I know that there are quite some debates regarding its user interface, however, the sound and possibilities are really great. Once you have gotten your head around it, the combination of the sequencer and the sound engine make it a real techno monster (at least in my oppinion). BTW, if you think the bass is to weak, the trick is to use the second filter in high pass mode without actually highpassing but bosting the resonance a bit. Cheers

lars44 · Post by **lars44** » Sun May 09, 2021 12:29 pm

Hi
my first was a micromoog

Azbest · Post by **Azbest** » Sun May 16, 2021 10:16 am

Microkorg. I hated it and sold it a couple months later.

Cepheus · Post by **Cepheus** » Sun May 16, 2021 11:51 am

Had one of these at the end of the 80's. Korg Poly-800 Reversed keyboard
Took me a while to get used to a "normal" keyboard. And now I use a Seaboard which is even weirder

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Mon May 17, 2021 5:38 am

For me it was Casio CZ1000 1985. I was looking at Juno 106 too at the time, but was more money involved that made the decision i favour of CZ.

It was menu diving all the way, but was just very happy at the time. Soon found I needed memory cartridges and they were expensive, so made some of my own being 8 x times Casios in size(and just double in price), and was the start of my business. One store in sweden sold pretty good of that.

Made money to buy my first PC, and then moved over to programming making software. And it became my profession and now retired making music and film full time, that was my hobby all life through.

seepedtea · Post by **seepedtea** » Wed May 26, 2021 2:01 am

MS200r, which I still have! Very logically laid out synth with lots of hands-on control. I think I'll gift it to someone who wants to learn synthesis in the future

Scrubbing Monkeys · Post by **Scrubbing Monkeys** » Wed May 26, 2021 11:40 am

My First was an Alpha Juno 2...Then a Korg X2 and now my only hardware is a Yamaha DX 100 that was given to me.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed May 26, 2021 11:53 am

Minimoog 1st generation, my father gave it to me when I was 9 years old and I loved it. I still keep it for nostalgic reasons...

perpetual3 · Post by **perpetual3** » Wed May 26, 2021 12:34 pm

Casio HT3000

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Wed May 26, 2021 12:40 pm

Sometime in the mid 80s... a Casio MT 31

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Dirk Diggler · Post by **Dirk Diggler** » Wed May 26, 2021 12:57 pm

A brand new Minimoog in '79, I was broke for long time after that.

bibz1st · Post by **bibz1st** » Wed May 26, 2021 2:26 pm

Ok I'll join in, it was a sc pro one bought from a music shop in bingley, UK for £349 in 1981

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Wed May 26, 2021 2:34 pm

vurt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:48 pm
cryophonik wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:33 pm Radio Shack/Realistic/Moog Concertmate MG-1. My dad bought it back in '81 because he thought it would be cool to mess around with, and I basically took ownership of it.
my uncle who i got the yamaha off had something that looked similar, but we don't have radio shack? so not sure how he would have one.

Sure you did. Does the name Tandy perhaps ring any bells?

What was your first hardware synthesizer?