Analogue synths

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I love the sound of that Polivoks. It has a lot of "bite" to it, and I think it would be great for industrial music.

Or a sequencer? I don't know enough about it yet. Buchla inventor was dismissive of the keyboard as a way to appeal to more traditional musicians. I know it worked for Moog, but there might be an advantage to an alternative approach.

I like that some synths are more than just electric keyboards, but instruments in their own right.

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Russian Polivoks sound is harder, but that Poland band used a smoother sound, like a MOOG, so I thought maybe its a Vermona Synth, which was sounding like a MOOG... The Vermona Synth was made by VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke, which was a Communist state company in East Germany in 1970s and 1980s.

1980s Communist Vermona


Now in Unified Germany they are still making synthesizers with the Vermona name.

2015 Capitalist Vermona


I like the Communist one better

In Russia, synth tweaks you.

You should buy Polivoks. It sounds tough, and looks cool. Check EBay

Now, it wouldn't be nearly as cool as the real thing, and it might be somewhat heretical to bring up, but is there a Polivoks VST plugin out there? I know lots of other synths have VST versions.

Yes, there is, I heard its good, but not tried it before.

But anyway, you should buy this, its much better, and you can show off to your friends
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=po ... s&_sacat=0

Sadly, I can't afford any of them. Theoretically I could buy one of the EM-25 models, BUT then I wouldn't have any money for groceries or what have you.

Where did my video go?

Guess this warrants a reposting:

@AspE,

If you like the Buchla synth then I think you should listen to the EMS Synthi AKS.



It is one of Jean Michelle Jarre's favorite toys.

How much can you afford?
How about save money first, and then buy later

Or get a cheaper priced one, like this

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Who cares about groceries? The Junos and the jupiters, are what matters in life. : D

@MannyBoo

When did you first get into synths? Loved em' since I was 12. Own over 10 analogs (including a Prophet 5 and one digital. My brother has a Jupiter-8 and a Fairlight CMI.

When I was an elementary student I visited my uncles house often. He likes analog and has Yamaha SY-1, CS-80, Korg Trident, Roland SH-5, and System 100 modules. So was influenced by him, and became interested in the electronic sounds.

But I am not only analog, I also like digital and other kinds of synthesis too.

Your brother owns a Fairlight? :O Holy crap! How did he get his hands on it?

How much money you can spend? Have you decided what to buy?

Synthesizers are only a minor interest of mine, truth be told. And I've never really gone shopping for them before, so I'm not sure where a good place to start would be. You can find dozens of guitars at the pawn shops here, and the occasional bass, but I've NEVER seen any good synths. I saw an old FM synth module once that I was tempted to pick up, but I didn't have any MIDI cables or a controller, and it wasn't a notable looking model either.

I may not have any dedicated synths, but I do have a few old gaming systems and computers. The most unique would probably be this Apple IIGS I rescued from a dump about 12 years ago. It was all rusted up, and the monitor and one of the floppy drives I found alongside it were faulty, but once I took the nonworking drive out of the equation, and got a working monitor for Christmas as a gift from my awesomely nerdy uncle, it worked!

Anyway, what makes it notable synthesizer-wise is that it's based around the same sound chip that powers both the Ensoniq Mirage sampler and ESQ-1 synthesizer. It doesn't have analog Curtis filters like either of those, which is a bit of a shame, but otherwise it's a pretty cool sound chip. Apparently it was designed by the same guy who created the Commodore 64's famous SID chip, and it's supposed to be fairly similar, but with a lot more sound channels.