which is best for music Atari or Amiga

[commodorejohn]

Commodore John - that MS20 track you did was very good.

Thanks

I own several Korg Monotrons and just purchased a Korg Volca Keys - so I've been watching their analogue synth revival.

It's been pretty great, alright, and it's only getting better - Arturia doubling down on the success of the Minibrute, Korg recreating the freakin' Odyssey...what a great time to be getting into synths!

I also own a Juno-106, Alpha Juno-1, Yamaha DX100 and TX81z.

Lucky you, you've already got a Juno - prices on those suckers have been climbing crazily lately. I'd kinda like to get one, but at the prices they're getting lately, I'd just as soon pick up a Prophet 600...

Also like to buy old 1980s home/toy keyboards whenever I can pick them up for a few bucks at thrift stores (the interesting ones before Casio etc. switched to stock PCM sounds for home keyboards).

Yeah, there's some fun stuff in the low end that not many people know about. I'm still looking for a replacement for the broken Casio HT-6000 I used to have - it's a fully programmable hybrid synthesizer in the guise of a cheapo home keyboard! I've got a Yamaha PSR-48, as well, simply for the epic demo tune

[commodorejohn]

The real deal is inexpensive and sounds better, anyway, although I will admit that FM8 is the closest emulation of Yamaha FM I'm aware of.

[commodorejohn]

Yeah, but it's got that awful "alpha dial" (does it do the stupidly counterintuitive thing it does on the JX-10 where it cycles slower the faster you spin it?) I'll take slightly unreliable but eminently usable over solidly-constructed tedium any day...

[commodorejohn]

Yeah, I just picked up an SC-55K this week. It's surprisingly good for its time; baffling how the Windows soundfont version could be so much worse than a home-computer MIDI module from the mid-'90s...

[commodorejohn]

Saw quite a few DX7s on SMeebay.  Just don't have the room.  Already have a good quality weighted keys Roland midi controller keyboard.  So a soft synch is the best option.  Especially since I upgraded my Sonar to X3 for my B'day.

Well, there's always the TX7/TX802...

@commodoreJohn.  I saw/heard the same thing with SB Live EMU Sound fonts vs my little Korg module.  Chalk and cheese.  Cheese being the Soundfonts. I found individually the patches sounded great but in the context of a piece they were all over the place.

Yeah...although the patches don't even sound good individually on GM.DLS...

What's the "little Korg module?" I had an 05/RW (rack version of the X5) I quite enjoyed, and I've been keeping my eye out for a deal on an X5D ever since I had to sell it...

[commodorejohn]

Nice