Previously owned music gear. Alley of lost friends.....

• Roland SH101: This was my first synthesiser, and the one on which I learned analog synthprogramming. I sold it, of course, in favor of the new digital machines ( the D20), but I have regretted it ever since. A year ago I bought it again (at a much higher price). The SH101 has a very good sound and the most screaming acid filter sound ever deviced. See my detailed description by clicking on the picture!

• Roland TR606: My first drummer. Along with the SH101, my first music-studio! Essentially a 808 without percussion and individual decay knobs. It sounds beutifully analog using ringing filter and sawtooth waves as the sound source. No modern wimpy pulse code modulation stuff. Why did I sell it......

• Korg Poly 800: My first polysynth. Very basic stuff, no special features at all. A boring thin synth, but actually very warm and good for pads. It has a sequencer that you can fool around with while playing on the keyboard. I learned alot about harmonics and voicing with this synth. I wouldn't buy one agin though.

• Bit 01: My first full range synth. Very cool look and strange metallic sound. The 2 LFO's could go audio for FM effects and be rate modulated by velocity. That and split/double functions made this synth quite usable and I would perhaps buy it again if I found one really cheap.

• Korg Polysix: Extreamly fat sounding and very cool arpeggiator function. Limited parameters though and only one VCO. The unison mode on this synth sounds really huge and the basic sound is very fat and warm, but you can't do that much with it.

• Roland S10: My first sampler, cheap and crappy functions but sounds really good. I used it quit a lot and experimented wildly within the world of sampling. Stay away from it at all costs, since it uses those dreaded 2.8" discs. I have fond memories from this one though.

• Roland D20: My first workstation and the synth on wich I composed more music (in the words broadest definition) than on any other gear. The sound is boring and it doesn't invite to programming. The interface uses japanese Roland logic.... Nevertheless , I used this one along with the S10 and learned a lot about writing, arranging and producing songs.

• Roland W30: This sampler is actually a very good production tool and I made my first real proffesional sounding music with it. It has got a lot of shortcomings technically but the basic sound of the sampling transposition is the best I have ever heard on any sampler since. I would buy it again if it wasn't for the mere 15 seconds of sampling time (not expandable..)

• Casio FZ1: I actually sold my W30 and bought the FZ1(2MB) because of the doubled sampling time. The FZ1 is a powerfull and very usable sampler but suffers from having only monophonic individual outputs. I used as a 909 and sampled pieces of loops and my own scratching/transforming during my Hip Hop era.

• Korg Wavestation EX: Beautifull sound and even better effects. Great for Vangelis style pads and evolving sounds using it's unique voice arcitechture. I would buy it agin at any time, but this time I will buy the A/D version with external inputs. I sold it in favour of my 20 year old Korg MS20.and I havent regretted it once. Not because the WS is bad in any way, but the MS20 is simply one of the best synths ever invented...,

• Yamaha DX7: I really love this synth and I will buy it again when I get the chance. I have taken the time to learn how to program it (it is really a most difficult synth to program as people say) and you can do way cool electronic sounding bass and shimmering pads with it amongst other things.

• Yamaha TX81Z: Excellent mulitimbral FM synth, not as complex and powerfull sounding as the DX7 but it really kicks ass when the 8 voices is stacked. I used it as a digital sound source in contrast to my analogs and it worked really well. I am considering buying it again but I dont know if I want the DX7 instead or a MonoPoly , or a MiniMoog ,or a Jupiter 8, or a.... Or perhaps paying my phonebill or taking that trip to greece with my girlfriend! ;)

• Ensoniq ESQ1: Very good ravers workstation. I used it as a analog/digital sound source and controller along with my FZ1. The sound is harsh and screaming. It uses 3 oscillators per voice and has analog filters and EG's. It has sync and ringmod, 2 very good LFO's and 4 envelopes!. You can sync a snare with a square wave for unpredictabel effects!. This is a very good rave/techno synth and I traded it only for it's big brother the SQ80. Check out the details by clicking on the picture!.

• Kawai R50: The drummachine I used as a sequencer (!) and sound source with my S10 and D20 to get that "pattern" feel. Quite original sounds, and with built in flanger and other oddities.

• Roland D550: I only had this for a short period, but there are one sound I made on it that I used in one of my best songs. The cool thing about the D50 is the poor quality sampled loops that you can use as attack transients. A part from that, the Roland D-series are not my favourite synths......

• Korg DW8000: Another synth I never should have sold. I made over 400 carefully programmed sounds on this baby. As the SH101 ,it just cant help sounding very very good. It also has a built-in Digital Delay Line that can do doubling, delay, flanging ,chorus and all sorts of weird effects. It has some sparkling digital sounding singel cycle waveforms in contrast to the warm analog filter. Grim unison mode that only fattens up the sounds immensly, it doesn't cancel out the detuning like on many other synths. A bass sound in unison mode sounds great for example. I am on the lookout for the rack version!

• Alesis SR16: Highest quality drum and percussion sounds, but to much biased towards Rock for me to be happy. I used it for hi-hats and additional snares.

• Akai X7000: I only had this one a brief time, and I dont miss it. Except of course for it's cool white frontpanel and the big alpha wheel. As the Roland S10. it uses the horrible 2.8" discs. The functions is not as limited as the S10 but it has even less sampling time...

• Korg MS10: Kid brother to the MS20. Very fat, very good bass. Since I now have my MS20 , I dont miss it anymore but it's a great little synth and lovely to tweak around with.

• Casio CZ1000: I used this synth along with the Poly800 and the S10 as an additional soundsource for digital sounds. It actually sounds quit analog, not like the Yamahas at all. You can get some really good sounds from it, especially bass , but it isn't that fun really.