Whats getting you excited (Synths) ?
 

For me its the Yamaha FS1R

Its taken me years to find one - I saw one come up on eBay in immaculate condition, with box and manuals etc. The bid was at £190.00 with 3 days to go - there were over 50 people watching the item and I knew they'd be some competition for it. So, with 15 seconds to go I enter the bid screen and clicked on the 'im buying this at all costs' button. I stuck a high bid of £500 (yes I wanted that bitch bad). I won the item for £310 - a bargain in my eyes for what it can do.

Its by far and away one of the best digial pad synths ever made. Absolutely awesome for ambience. Im also really happy it can load up the original DX7 patches and do formant synthesis. It comes with 1500 presets (inc. all the famous DX7 patches).

Hehehe

DS

Sounds good.

Damn, I should have bought one earlier when somebody was selling his for 250 euros. :D

edit. And yeah, Andromeda is my favourite synth. :)

Some FS1R presets...

DX7 Fulltines

Formant Voice

SynChoir

DS

sounds nice



still jammin here with the Alesis A6, well impressed, its like my first ever real synth

watched this the other day DS and it reminded me of you.. for I guess the 80's ness of it.. great stuff ... me-mo-ries

It's still the V-Synth for me guys. The thing amazes me everytime I dig deeper into some of the modules - currently it's the stereo pitch shifter in the MultiFX section.
I made a virtual "Triadex Muse" for a guy in SecondLife, and the sounds I got from the demos he gave me are just nuts.

Yep, even with it's short comings, the V wins out every time for me and what I wanna make.

not really a synth, but I am pretty damn excited over this -

http://www.audiorealism.se/adm/adm_announcement.htm

Studio Electronics Omega8 (Code8 )
Im still waiting for mine to arrive from the US

Boom Chik makes me wet... and I'm not a chick.

PPG Wave 2.3

There was never a synth sexier than this one and she sounds great too.

TI as usual is my most used synth, though am very much hitting the limits of all my VA synths with certain type of sound, so now thinking of finding an analog mono synth.

CODE sounds perfect, but have zero desire to spend that much and while ther Moog LP is mroe the kind of cash I have in mind - it just doesnt do it for me - seems great for early done-to-death moog noises, bit with a thinner modern edge to them and hate its controls - or lack of. Voyager - possible, but very pricey and still a moog, but with far greater sound shaping options.

So am on the hunt for a good digitally controlled analog with full midi capability - mainly for dirty analog bass sounds, electro and the like. Dumping sampes in the V-Synth is the stop gap. Thats why I love the v-synth - if all else fails you can stick a sample in it, but its doesnt have quite the filter character I want at the moment.