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I don’t actually know that it’s good for anything. 🤣

I’ve got Chromes on my Ibby, been on for about 8 years now. Great sounding & feel good too, but now finding the tension a little too tight for the style of music I’m doing. So now I’m looking for a lower tension.

This Alibaba ad popped up on my Facebook & made me chuckle. I’d love to see someone play this thing.

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I’ve listened to the album a few times. I think it’s a decent album with some superb playing. You should watch some of their live stuff.

Other places to look are Reverb, Gumtree & Facebook.

Cheers @Quatschmacher One ability that I’d like, is to be able to split the keys so I can play bass & pads when the other keys player is on clarinet. I currently play either lekky bass or synth bass (using controller & MacBook). I want a good keybed & plan on going to try all on the final shortlist. That’s a shame to hear about the Polybrute. My current NI S61 mk2 has a Fatar keybed & it’s a very nice keyboard to play (though it’s getting sold to fund a synth). I’ve looked at the Sledge before & it seemed cracking value, but it’s not really what I’m looking for.

I looked at the Prologue, but they’re no longer in production. Don’t really want to go down the rack/desktop synth & controller route & the P6 /OB6 have the same issue as the Polybrute, limited polyphony. Though I have been noseying the Rev2.

Thanks. I watched J3PO on the Wave 2 last night. It sounds great too, so added to the list to try. I plan on getting the Roland KS10Z stand, it’s a heavy duty fold up Z stand.

Loving Jungle (the band), which oddly enough don't play any Jungle (the genre).

I choose to listen to just about every genre of music. I think God has given me enough wisdom to choose wisely. Today I listened to Talking Heads - 77 & then Mitski - Be The Cowboy. Both fantastic albums & both musically far better than anything by Hillsong, Bethel or Elevation. Neither are about God, but nor are they about Satan or even about falling away from God.

The Roland X synths seem to be ticking all the boxes so far. They have the easy access to patches, layering & splitting, lots of tweakability on the front panel & can be integrated into my daw for studio use. But I’m still gonna try a few out & open to looking at other ideas. One think I’d like to do with whatever I get is play bass & keys/pad/arp on it.

That’s a good idea, but not what I’m looking for just now.

Cheers @BigRedX That’s some great points you’ve given. I like creating sounds, but also happy tweaking a patch that’s close to the sound I want. Im not a pianist, but I’d like a decent polyphony & 61 keys is my preference. I looked at the System 8, but being plastic & 49 keys is not selling points to me. Though I agree, it’s a very capable synth. The Roland X synths attract me as they tick a lot of boxes for me, but I want to weigh up all the options & get other’s opinions on what’s available.

My church don’t have any rehearsals other than for about 15 mins prior to worship. The majority of folk just wing it (which as almost all worship songs sound the same, it’s easy to do). The Sunday set usually gets sent out the Wednesday or Thursday just before, though it’s been as late as Saturday morning. They’re really unorganised & there’s no reason for it.

Our church has a Team Night on the last Thursday of the month. It’s a get together for all the worship team & they introduce a new song at it. So the musicians & singers have to learn this song for the Thursday, which would be no big deal, but as per usual, the song isn’t announced until Monday evening & then they let you know the key & upload the chord chart on the Tuesday (today). So most of the folk have no time to listen to it, let alone learn it. I really don’t get why this is left so late? It’s not like it relies on anything. Why can’t they pick a song at the start of the month?

It uses up all the free memory for “system processes”. I had 350gb free & it used the lot, so when I tried to do anything, it flagged up “out of memory” messages. I believe the issue’s since been resolved. when I was a teen, I was heavily into synths & always wanted my own Juno 106. I should have bought one when the could be picked up for £300. I’d still like one, but the Juno/Jupiter X would fill that gap. I nearly bought a Juno 60 back in 1989 for £250, but I was £50 short.

I think this is what I need to do. Get my butt through to GG in Glasgow & have a play with a few. I’ve looked at the System 8, but it’s basically the predecessor to the Juno X & Jupiter X. The Jupiter X has 6 synth models in it (Jupiter X, Jupiter 8, Juno 106, JX8P, SH101, RD piano) as well as a vocoder & a bunch of classic drum machines. You can add more from Roland Cloud. The Roland synths I’m looking at are not analogue, but from listening to demos on YouTube, they do a very convincing job.

Whatever I get is going to be for live & home. I love the Roli & will probably regret selling it, but last time I took it, my 7 year old MacBook decided to play up (a known issue with Montary). I had considered getting a Modal Cobalt8 & using the Roli with that (Modal synths are MPE), but then the Juno X popped up & I’ve decided to flog the Roli & my NI S61 mk2 to help fund a new synth.

The Roland Juno X popped up in my YouTube feed, so me & the Mrs watched a vid. We then watched about 6 more Juno X vids & the Mrs was impressed & said “if you want one, get one”. I joined a 4 piece band recently, me on bass/synth (that being a laptop & Roli Rise), drummer (has acoustic & e kit), guitarist & a keys/clarinet player. Soundwise, we’re a kind of ambient funk jazz lofi chillout sound (think Zero7, Khruangbin, R+R=Now, etc). So a hardware synth would be ideal. I’d also be using it for producing music at home as well as just playing it at home for fun. After watching a few more vids, I stumbled upon the Jupiter X & was blown away. Basically the Juno X’s big brother. But then I’ve saw the Arturia Polybrute, which is analogue & is rather impressive too. So now I’m stuck. I like that the Roland synths have scenes & can layer 5 parts (1 of which can be a drum track) & you can add various Roland synth models, but I also like the hands on approach to the Polybrute, with it’s Morphee pad & ribbon controller (I’m also a sucker for that wood). I haven’t really looked at any other synths around the £2k mark, but these 3 all get great reviews. So, any players out there got any advice or Pros/Cons on these synths?

I've got mine done. All the parts are monophonic (that was my own challenge). The majority of parts are played on keys (not programmed in) & the big dirty bass that plays the melody was my bass popped through isotopes Trash 2. All aboard the train to here.....

Well I’ve made a start, got the intro & some great sounds, but not sure where I’m going with it yet.