Reply to: Do you play an instrument?

[Jubber]

Used to have a korg monopoly many years ago - wish I had kept it.

Now have

Yamaha U1
Korg X50
Roland RD100

DR880
Tascam 2488

Yamaha semi acoustic
Ibanez Bass
Les Paul Studio

[DaveB]

Harmonica - Quality improves in line with alchohol consumption
Mandolin - Badly.

[Cliphead]

Prophet 2000
Proteus 2000
Juno 6

Mostly use softsynths these days.

[beercohol]

Nord Modular
Korg Triton (with all the options - old but good)
Korg MS20 (tulip but great when it works)
Various home made monsters
Moog Prodigy (with some brain surgery)
Many software synths etc,.

Do you remember the Korg Wavedrum? (I'm guessing you probably do as it was (sort of) released at the same time as the Prophecy).

I actually played it!! I think it was only one of three in the country and the next day it broke so my experience may be super exclusive.

anyway, synths:

Yamaha VL1-m (incredible technology!!)
Casio VZ1 (FM with warmth)
Alesis Quadrasynth S3
Korg 03R/W
Cheetah MS6 (same chipset as the Oberheim Matrix 1000)

[bogeyman]

I once went to a lecture given by Brian Eno.

He told us that the wheels of industry and western civilisation would come to a halt if we stopped consuming aluminum in its various forms including foil.

bonkers I thought.

Brian used to be a complete nutter but he's calmed down a lot.

He's a bit of a pretentious arse nowadays. I thought he lost the plot when he started producing U2 (yaaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnn).

Very clever chap though. Quite an original thinker - even if he is a Lib-Dem supporter.

Interesting Eno Fact: he is quite into watersports - not the sort that involve boats (ewww!).

[PAH]

piano
violin
classical guitar

So you're partial to a bit of PVC then. Interesting. I'm more a leather man myself.

Loufer
Eggs
Armchair
Toilet
Headboard
Elevator
Recliner

Had some great noises out of those I can tell you.

[Fishface]

I once went to a lecture given by Brian Eno.

He told us that the wheels of industry and western civilisation would come to a halt if we stopped consuming aluminum in its various forms including foil.

bonkers I thought.

Another lecture was from the former Arts minister Kin Howels - he gave us an account of when he was a student in the 70's, he walked into the food market of Fortnum & Mason with a top hat on containing 200 white mice, doff'd his hat to the consierge and spilled the flock of mouses about the place.

Pandemonium ensued.

After they were chased out of the place, he joined his group to smash up paintings outside on the street.

A splendid piece of situationist mentalism - which I think is great - the kids/student these days are pretty tulip - just hide behind their rigid exterior.

[bogeyman]

Synths here...

Korg Trinity
Juno 6
Korg M1
Korg Prophecy
Roland R5 Drum Machine
Casio FZ10M Sampler
Various PC based tools (Reason, Rebirth, etc)

Actually I meant Korg Trinity (the one with the Prophecy board built-in) not the Triton, which I had briefly in rack form, but sold it on.

I sometimes think I'd like to replace it all with virtual instruments on a macbook, but then sometimes there's nothing better than just thrashing the keys and twiddling all the knobs.

I learned to (almost) play on a Roland Juno 6 - that and an old upright joanna

Quite keen on algorithmic/generative and systems music. See - it's that tosser Eno again

[Board Game Geek]

Synths here...

Korg Trinity
Juno 6
Korg M1
Korg Prophecy
Roland R5 Drum Machine
Casio FZ10M Sampler
Various PC based tools (Reason, Rebirth, etc)

Mostly used for bumming around these days and writing for pleasure (instead of writing as part of forced labour to a bad with a stupid and restrictive music contract, and I hated writing 90's "Dance Music" anyway)

I use the following for inspiration....

Nitzer Ebb
VNV Nation
Diary of Dreams

The Shizit - Now defunct because all their gigs ended in mass damage to the venues...one theatre was ripped to pieces brick by brick by the crowd. Moshing at their gigs was extreme..round house kicks the works...I've never seen a crowd so pumped before or since. Incredible the power of music...

[bogeyman]

Which synths?

Nord Modular
Korg Triton (with all the options - old but good)
Korg MS20 (tulip but great when it works)
Various home made monsters
Moog Prodigy (with some brain surgery)
Many software synths etc,.

[beercohol]

Keyboards, mainly synths, very badly, in the manner of Brian Eno.

Not a bad drummer but have no kit.

Which synths?

[Advocate]

Oi don't knock the triangle!

That's how it works...

[bogeyman]

Keyboards, mainly synths, very badly, in the manner of Brian Eno.

Not a bad drummer but have no kit.

[KathyWoolfe]

piano
violin
classical guitar

[Cliphead]

All of the above