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Post by pol on Apr 16, 2023 17:29:29 GMT
My first proper synth/keyboard was a Korg MS20 and, many years later I was in the market for a versatile polysynth the MS2000 was a natural for me to look at. Limited voice number wise compared to a lot of modern synths, it often still beats them on programmability (with most functions having a dedicated knob and rarely deep menu diving), sound (can do some lush strings without FX) and other functions like the arpegiator and sequencer - the latter can cause subtle harmonic changed to complete mayhem! It was my favourite arpegiator until I got a Novation Ultranova a few years later, that one is even more capable/varied.
The main synth engine was the basis for the Korg microkorg, one of the best selling synths this century; being newer, and a more budget orientated keyboard, it made a few gains but also had some losses compared to the MS2000.
Now, past the 20th year since I bought my MS2000 it is still my desert island synth and used on most of my music. Buy the right gear and you'll keep it!
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Post by DeepSEA on Apr 17, 2023 13:27:54 GMT
I saw this A few weeks ago, and it emphasized many of the points you made!
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Post by pol on Apr 18, 2023 20:38:22 GMT
I don't normally watch bad gear, thanks for this. 😊
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Post by DeepSEA on Apr 23, 2023 10:12:01 GMT
Bad Gear is one of my favorite channels! There is always something interesting and the synth memes are hilarious!
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Post by pol on Apr 23, 2023 13:45:04 GMT
This song is mostly MS2000 - the Snare (which started the song idea!) was on my newly purchase Novation Ultranova
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Post by solipsistnation on Apr 23, 2023 23:06:48 GMT
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Post by pol on Apr 24, 2023 19:01:04 GMT
That was a fun read, thank you. |
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Post by tIB on Apr 24, 2023 19:07:11 GMT
Bit weird that I've never had the ms2000, but have had various iterations of what I understand is the same architecture - I've had the microkorg, R3 and Radias, the best of which by a mile I found to be the Radias... that thing has all kinds of stuff going on!
Always thought the ms2000 looked like a synth should.
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Post by solipsistnation on Apr 24, 2023 20:30:00 GMT
That was a fun read, thank you. His whole site is pretty fun. He has some really interesting takes on quite a lot of gear, and the historical use of the gear to back up his opinion. You could do far worse than spending a little time poking around there. |
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Post by reductionist_earth_catalog on Apr 26, 2023 0:35:56 GMT
I of course started out with a MicroKorg, but I always wanted an R3. Can’t wait to dive into some of the other musings on that site.
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Post by Gaëtan on Apr 26, 2023 6:34:03 GMT
I still have my microkorg that I bought in 2008, it's a surprisingly deep synth.
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Post by rodney on May 8, 2023 0:31:09 GMT
That was a fun read, thank you. His whole site is pretty fun. He has some really interesting takes on quite a lot of gear, and the historical use of the gear to back up his opinion. You could do far worse than spending a little time poking around there. Tom was a grumpy-old-man when he was about 23, so he's really coming into his stride. It's sad that they decided to not do Severed Heads gigs anymore (never got to see them live) but he's doing lots of things still. Hi Synthesiser man-cave looks like a treasure room. |
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Post by rockysmalls on May 8, 2023 11:05:42 GMT
His whole site is pretty fun. He has some really interesting takes on quite a lot of gear, and the historical use of the gear to back up his opinion. You could do far worse than spending a little time poking around there. Tom was a grumpy-old-man when he was about 23, so he's really coming into his stride. It's sad that they decided to not do Severed Heads gigs anymore (never got to see them live) but he's doing lots of things still. Hi Synthesiser man-cave looks like a treasure room. i like his comment about Superbooth! see you all at the marble chute people  “There is something called Superbooth which seems to involve a competition for how many cables you can shove into a box full of sockets without the marbles falling down a chute or something like that. I really don’t get into that bit but I do like that vendors seem to discount their stuff to get extra marbles.” |
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