Reminds me that I miss the Arp2600… There was something so intuitive and physical about patchpanels and knobs as a way of programming synths. Closest we get these days is Reason, which doesn’t quite encourage the same manic “I don’t care what it’s supposed to do, let’s try this and see what it does” approach.
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now THAT is a boom box…
Looks a bit like Giorgio Morder: http://electrorash.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/moroderbig.jpg
looks like the same guy
If only the guy in the picture was younger, this would be perfect for Dork Yearbook.
Sweeet! That is more like a portable synth: ElectroComp + Seq, EML-101 and a Shure VocalMaster.
Reminds me that I miss the Arp2600… There was something so intuitive and physical about patchpanels and knobs as a way of programming synths. Closest we get these days is Reason, which doesn’t quite encourage the same manic “I don’t care what it’s supposed to do, let’s try this and see what it does” approach.