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Duncan, et al, you've given me alot more to think about. I went to the musiace store last nigt and tried teh X50, the Juno-D and a Yamaha mm6 and when all was said and done I preferred the sounds in that order. The Yamaha was easier on tweaking sounds but all were tweakable. At first I was intimidate by the x5o but I found myself navigating around the controls quite easily (and better than the salesperson) pretty quickly to my surprise. You've all given me tons more to think about. Took a look just now at the EMU and JP8000-interesting... Thanks! Plish > I've been collecting synths from the 80/90's- more because the prices > are in the $100-300 range and I like having a lot of options. > > Some good ones: > > Roland JV1080 with world and vintage cards. Excellent bread and > butter sounds, very flexible. > Roland JD990 - great basses. > Kurzweil K2000 (or K2k rack) - incredible sound engine, flakey > sequencer, wonderful fx engine. > Yamaha SY 77/85/99 - Nice strings, fm synthesis engine (like a DX7 on > steroids). Skip the SY22. > Quasimidi Sirius or Polymorph - More techno-oriented, great filters, > Polymorph has a great interface, sirius has a nice vocoder. > > You could buy ALL of these synths on the secondhand market for what > you would pay for a new ROMpler synth, although Quasimidi's are > starting to increase in value. > There are some incredible bargains going in hardware synthesis right > now. > These synths were in the $1-2k range on release but are worth almost > nothing on the secondhand market now everyone is going softsynthy. I > have no prejudice against soft synths- I have loads of them but there > is something great about hardware. > > Try to find a used Roland JP8000 - they came out around £1500- > Bought mine in Switzerland for 600 chf (about $500) and they kick ass. > Incredible strings, amazing basses, decent fx (although not as > flexible as kurzweil)- you really should check one out. > Check ebay- if in the US try checking ebay Germany- there are always > a lot of bargains on ebay Germany (I guess due to economy being a bit > screwy). You can easily convert a 230v power supply to a 110v one > with one simple solder join on the PCB. Takes 5 mins. > > Regards, > > Jim Richmond > > On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:17 PM, mike@michaelplishka.com wrote: > >> Am looking for a keyboard for the studio-good strings are a plus as >> well >> as cool World Music sounds. Been looking at the Korg stuff: X50 and >> TR61. >> I can get decent deals on both-one being new the other slightly used. >> >> Any thoughts on these or others? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Plish > >