[microsound] Re: synth toys

[David William Newman <dwnewman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

i think this is a good synth toy 

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=1291 

you even get a 84% replica ms-20 with it 

:) 

shinjiro yamaguchi writes: 

> "casio tone" is good, too.
> it's very cheap sounds. 
>
>
> best
> shinjiro 
>
>
> > perhaps a yamaha cs-1? it uses sliders instead of knobs but that makes it
> > very small and sturdy. can be batery powered, has a speaker, idealy suited
> > for touring. best of all; it will do both noizes and synth lines. affordable
> > too. in my experience it needs a compressor or a limiter when used live
> > because tweaking the settings can cause huge volume changes but apart from
> > that it sounds like exactly what you want. 
> >
> > looks good next to a casio sk-1 too.
> > link for your convenience;
> > http://www.synthmuseum.com/yamaha/yamcs101.html 
> >
> > confession time; apart from my own experimental work i.m also in a disco
> > project called "bangkok impact" (*ducks*). we.ve taken to using a lot of
> > small and toy keyboards on stage because you can throw a lot of them
> > inbetween your clothes in your suitcase, they take up little room on stage,
> > can be modified, don.t crash and they enable us to switch to completely
> > freestyle jamming at any moment. some of them produce a frightning amount of
> > bass too...... 
> >
> > i wholeheartedly recomend the practice to everybody. 
> >
> > Kas. 
> >
> > p.s. sorry about mentioning disco on the microsound list, i feel dirty now.
>
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