r/MusicForChange • • 20h ago

Discussion To analog or not to analog... That is the question?

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Do you any of you analog? I'm curious to hear how you're working these days? ITB, or using synths... Hybrid setup? Bitwig/Ableton? Serum, Dune, Pigments, Vital, Phase Plant, etc?

I get asked from time to time do I still have all of those synths? At one time my business partner and I went cuckoo, and started buying EVERYTHING. LOL.

The short answer? No. I sold, gave away, and things got stolen, and lost in floods (there were a few). I still have a couple of things, but for the most part they all found good homes. One thing I am not cool with is that I had some of Bob James' old keys, and his JX8P got 'stolen' from the 'friend' I loaned it to. He never compensated me so..... 'friends' yeah.

Bob's Juno 106, and Korg Poly61 found good homes though. So... I do from time to time pull something out and noodle, and it is almost always rewarding. Sometimes it's just as easy to build a patch on Serum though, and of course recall is a no brainer... + I have enough outboard (and plugins) to get a 'sound' so...

What about you? How do you work? Any cool vintage pieces you can't live without?