<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi everybody! Nice to be back!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m getting the mails! It’s working again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-dcf5ee08-7fff-a7b9-057a-99303b220207" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Regarding my Synths, first a little history:</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">After visiting electronic music festivals since 1987, I think I had the urge to buy a synth for myself somewhere in 1990 or 1991, it was a Roland MT-32 of course :-)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">During the years following I bought a KORG M3R, A Matrix Oberheim 1000, The Roland RSP-550 effect processor, and later a KORG Wavesation EX and last but not least a second hand JUNO 60 and Korg MS-20. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">My music-making years primarily focused around these years, resulting in The Real Virtuality Project.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In 1996 I got married and my now ex-wife convinced me to sell a lot of stuff, I only kept my JUNO 60, Wavestation, M3R, and RSP 550. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Music-making went to the background and I focused on 3D graphics instead. In the years after I only once in a while switched on something, played a few notes, and stopped again. In the end, everything dusted away in the attic. Finally, in 2015 I sold my Roland 60 which I still regret…</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Suddenly in 2017 I started longing to the past, I think because of the “Stranger Things” series and all the nice small retro remake synths which became suddenly available. So I bought some new stuff:</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">a Roland TB-03 module, because we used the TB-303 for the Real Virtuality Project</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">a Roland D-50 module, because when I was young, I always wanted a D-50, but could not afford it.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Arturia Drumbrute</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">a Roland Aira System 1, Because it’s so cool</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">an Arturia Keystep </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">And in 2018 a Doepfer Dark Energy</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">And I luckily still own the Wavestation, RSP-550 and the Korg M3R :-)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Cheers!</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Rolf</span></div></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Sep 2020, at 18:16, Joost Schuttelaar <<a href="mailto:joost@joostschuttelaar.nl" class="">joost@joostschuttelaar.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 27 Sep 2020, at 22:56, Jay Vaughan <<a href="mailto:ibisum@gmail.com" class="">ibisum@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Since I’m back in to making music and bought some new synth’s the past few years, this is a good time to return to the Music-bar. <br class="">Rolf<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Nice one Rolf! What sort of new synths have you picked up?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Testing 1-2-3…<br class=""><br class="">Rolf, which synths did you pick up? :)<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><br class="">Joost Schuttelaar<br class="">The Hague, NL<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">music-bar mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org" class="">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a><br class="">http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar<br class=""><br class="">Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>