synthesizer shopping, what do you recommend?

[nowaysj]

It's 8 knobs, but still not enough. My virus b, 32 knobs, not enough...

[Mad_EP]

you can get a novation bass station for mad cheap. not the sexiest of synths (and, truth be told, not a ton of bass), but a great cheap entry into all of this.

Again - for what it is, you almost might as well go for the VSTi version of it. Part of me wishes I had scoped around for one of the hardware ones.. but I got the virtual synth for £25 and I get great basses out of it (as well as leads). I think in order to get either of them to sound great - you have to do a lot to the sound, in which case, you need to decide whether it is better to get something cheap, but then spend extra money on colored pre-amps, plugins, etc.. or just spend the extra on a better synth.

[Noizydan]

i love a good vintage analogue. wonky as $hit, loaded with DC bias, a bitch to use live (and big and heavy), and often difficult to sequence (if it's even possible with voltage controllers - forget USB)... but the wrongness sometimes adds rightness.

I've got one of these:



cheap and basic analogue. one oscillator. basic lfo. sounds a bit poo, but nice when layered up through some fx.

this i would love:



the oscillator filtering on it is second to none. pure psychedelia.

this one is dirty. and usually broken when new. its a bit of a bitch, but a loveable one:



a squealer:



i like

The Teisco 110F, whilst sounding a bit like somewhere you might find some cheap beer, is actually somewhere you might find some nice phat bass sounds:



you can find out about the range of analogues in your price range here:

http://www.vintagesynth.com/synthfinder ... ind+Synths

As for getting someone to part with a decent working one at a sensible price... there's the rub

[ruckus49]

that synthfinder thing is pretty cool. too bad their price estimates are always way low.

[nowaysj]

Think they are just more inaccurate. I think they list the virus b for like $1200 or something. I'm seeing less than half that.

BTW ruckus, did you see that synth on ebay I referred you to, it sold for $400 bucks bro? That might have been worth it just to flip it, let alone to actually have and use one for so cheap!

[zonetrooper5]

Korg R3
Korg Microkorg
Korg KP3
Korg EMX-1 or the ESX-1

[ruckus49]

Think they are just more inaccurate. I think they list the virus b for like $1200 or something. I'm seeing less than half that.

BTW ruckus, did you see that synth on ebay I referred you to, it sold for $400 bucks bro? That might have been worth it just to flip it, let alone to actually have and use one for so cheap!

yeah man. im gonna have to grab one next time. i looked through the completed listings on that , and a lot actually went for 350-400