Newbie stumbling in....
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:33 am
Hi All!
My name is Eden ("Like that other disaster" my Dad says)
I've grown up in the Prog era and one of the first albums I was exposed to was The six Wives of you know who, by you know who...
I'm mainly a string instrument player (the usual suspects) but have always had a fasination with Synthesizers (it also helped when your Mother worked in a music shop)
I can remember mum bringing home a Yamaha CS-01 to tinker with and me trying to get those Oxygene sounds out of it. In hindsight the CS-01s speciality is those ammusing fart noises...
As I said I'm not really a board player but have collected a few decent and oddball keys over the years from the Stylophone through to a Roland A70..
My favorite by far is my Korg ES-50 which is one of those synths that you won't really understand until you have had your hands on.. The ES-50 is like a sonic orgasm and the backbone of my music...
Whilst I can get my head around programing a digital synth I find it time consuming and hard on the eyes trying to do everything through a tiny screen. Hands on knobs (keep it clean now..) will always get the job done alot faster and to much greater satisfaction. I have had virtual synths and amps etc but it is always easier with some real boards and a handfull of old boss pedals...
I have never had a Moog even though that is usually the sound I have in my head when turning knobs on my other synths. It's time to start saving.
The rebirth of Moog and synths like the LP have made that sound available to the likes of me. I'm in Australia so If I can gather the pennies for the Redback LP or even the SP it should get me started. A theremin will follow too...
So I will be hanging around a bit learning the culture of this forum (all forums have it) and asking some slightly stupid questions to determine which Moog is going to do the job for me.
This looks to be a great forum...
emac.
My name is Eden ("Like that other disaster" my Dad says)
I've grown up in the Prog era and one of the first albums I was exposed to was The six Wives of you know who, by you know who...
I'm mainly a string instrument player (the usual suspects) but have always had a fasination with Synthesizers (it also helped when your Mother worked in a music shop)
I can remember mum bringing home a Yamaha CS-01 to tinker with and me trying to get those Oxygene sounds out of it. In hindsight the CS-01s speciality is those ammusing fart noises...
As I said I'm not really a board player but have collected a few decent and oddball keys over the years from the Stylophone through to a Roland A70..
My favorite by far is my Korg ES-50 which is one of those synths that you won't really understand until you have had your hands on.. The ES-50 is like a sonic orgasm and the backbone of my music...
Whilst I can get my head around programing a digital synth I find it time consuming and hard on the eyes trying to do everything through a tiny screen. Hands on knobs (keep it clean now..) will always get the job done alot faster and to much greater satisfaction. I have had virtual synths and amps etc but it is always easier with some real boards and a handfull of old boss pedals...
I have never had a Moog even though that is usually the sound I have in my head when turning knobs on my other synths. It's time to start saving.
The rebirth of Moog and synths like the LP have made that sound available to the likes of me. I'm in Australia so If I can gather the pennies for the Redback LP or even the SP it should get me started. A theremin will follow too...
So I will be hanging around a bit learning the culture of this forum (all forums have it) and asking some slightly stupid questions to determine which Moog is going to do the job for me.
This looks to be a great forum...
emac.