Hey just wanted to let everyone know that I have given up all hopes of getting my minimoog. So I am going to move on and look for something else instead. I think I will go digital this time. I would like a Korg MS2000 or a Roland JP8000. But after spending $350.00 on a minimoog that never came I am going to hold off on one of those.

I think I will try something older but after 1980. I have already owned a Korg Poly-61, and Ensoniq Mirage and a Yamaha DX7II FD. I think I will try something elese. I've done analog, sampleing and FM. I think I will try something new like L/A. Oh also owned a Roland JX-305 and a Kawai K5000's.

Well I will keep looking till I find something that suits me.

You should look at the Red Sound DarkStar XP-2 . It's a module but it has real time controls , 2 oscillators per voice , multimode filters , it's a VA synth , 8 voice polyphonic and it's $199.99 . Best bang for buck you could hope for . http://www.redsound.com

Thanks! I'll check it out.

The Korg MicroKorg also offers a lot for the money. While it looks sort of cheap it provides good VA synthesis plus vocoding at a low price. Plus it does have a small but touch sensitive keyboard. I am thinking about getting one of these to use as an external module with another keyboard.

Yes! well that is one to consider, but I don't think I will right now. Espically after spending $350.00 on a minimoog that never came. So far I have $100.00 set asied for buying a keyboard. Of course I know $100.00 is not enough that's why I am trying to save up more. Buy trying to sell some stuff on ebay, and saveing change.

I was very sorry to hear how your online purchase turned out. I hope you are able to raise enough money to buy something that will compensate for losing the Minimoog.

thank you Nigel, well I just heard back from the guy and he said he is still trying to locate it as well and has not given up. If he can not fin it he said he woule refund my money.

That's a bummer Paul...hey, at least the guy will give you recourse on your investment with a refund. Man! Bummer! BTW I did see that 8080's are going cheap now.(a rackmount JP-8000) I would say if you are used to analog like you are, I would go with a VA type before a L/A type board.

VA huh? well that is something to consider. Would like a JP8000 or MS2000 or even a Nord Lead.

You know maybe I should consider a digital sampler. Since I am obviously not having and luck finding just the right synthesizer.


It's too bad no one makes an affordable digital keyboard sampler with knobs.