[dagosto]

After a long hiatus my synth rack and I have reconciled our differences and I am using them nearly everytime I sit down at my DAW. I was wondering if anybody else wanted o share the contents of their rack, or a list of the hardware synths they keep.

The contents of the synth rack:

Roland XV5050 - Kind of a cold sounding unit but there are a lot of moving, late nineties, technoish sound that become useful with the help of effects. Also some nice organs.

Yamaha MU100R - This is the synth I learned to sequence and program with. The Native sound set has some beautiful solo instruments. Of note are the ocarina, synth bass, and clarinet. The ensembles are a little small sounding but the addition of the XG sample set adds those neo-classic sounds.

Yamaha Motif Rack - First gen rack of my favorite PCM synth series ever. It does everything that you could expect from this type of synth well. The motif sounds are warm and punchy. The weak points would have to be the solo acostic instruments in general. For that I actually prefer the MU100R banks.

Emu Vintage Pro - Nice set of sounds, expandable (I still need to get to that), and very nice front panel controls for what is essentially a ROMpler.

Korg Triton Rack - Also first gen I believe. Not my favorite synth as far as sounds go (kinda cold) but the sampler and sequences are fun.