Here's my Analog list (currently in my possesion):

1. Akai AX80
2. (2) Cheetah MS6 (bought from UK, mod'ed for US voltage)
3. (2) Oberheim Matrix 1000
4. Oberheim Matrix 12 - OMFG, the love of my life!!!
5. Roland Juno HS60
6. Roland Jupiter 6
7. Roland MKS 80
8. Korg EX-8000
9. Roland TR-909
10. Sequential Circuits Prophet VS

Analogs owned in the past and sold:
1. Jupiter 8
2. Alesis A6 Andromeda
3. Roland TR-808
4. Roland TB-303
5. FutureRetro Revolution

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

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Originally posted by fr0st I also disagree for different reasons... You can edit it via a editor. But the envelopes are slow and the wrong shape for a really punchy bass...

Well... not really, all depends on your programming skills. Some of the nastiest and lushest basses can be extracted from Matrix 1000, especially on the (surprisingly) brass patches, if you transpose -12 or 24. My monitors are constantly red-lining when I hit some of the bass notes. Though I do agree that fast attack on bass patches is hard to extract from M1000. That seems to be the same issue plaguing all "matrix" line synths, as my Matrix 12 is also not the fastest bass beast but its slugishness results in the most amazing pads I ever heard. No other synth comes close. I especially like the self-oscilating patches on Matrix 1000 - they are just magical. You can't help but wonder "How the heck did they program such an amazing sound?!"

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

--Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)

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Originally posted by fr0st I also disagree for different reasons... You can edit it via a editor. But the envelopes are slow and the wrong shape for a really punchy bass...

Well... not really, all depends on your programming skills. Some of the nastiest and lushest basses can be extracted from Matrix 1000, especially on the (surprisingly) brass patches, if you transpose -12 or 24. My monitors are constantly red-lining when I hit some of the bass notes. Though I do agree that fast attack on bass patches is hard to extract from M1000. That seems to be the same issue plaguing all "matrix" line synths, as my Matrix 12 is also not the fastest bass beast but its slugishness results in the most amazing pads I ever heard. No other synth comes close. I especially like the self-oscilating patches on Matrix 1000 - they are just magical. You can't help but wonder "How the heck did they program such an amazing sound?!"

And I also agree with a point made earlier about making a multitimbral synth with a mono out. Problem easily solved by having 2 Matrix 1000's linked... For under $400 nothing else comes close in the lushness or wonderful sounds. Sure, it'd be nice if you had some knobs to tweak real time without PC but it's a minor gripe, offset by almost unbeatable value for the money.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

--Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)

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Originally posted by emc^2 Here's my Analog list (currently in my possesion): 1. Akai AX80 2. (2) Cheetah MS6 (bought from UK, mod'ed for US voltage) 3. (2) Oberheim Matrix 1000 4. Oberheim Matrix 12 - OMFG, the love of my life!!! 5. Roland Juno HS60 6. Roland Jupiter 6 7. Roland MKS 80 8. Korg EX-8000 9. Roland TR-909 10. Sequential Circuits Prophet VS

A fellow cheetah owner
And a matrix 12? oh my lord that is a beast!
That akai is another largley overlooked bit of kit.

man all this talk about analogs got my horney...gonna have to go hit ebay now.

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Originally posted by Freak A fellow cheetah owner And a matrix 12? oh my lord that is a beast! That akai is another largley overlooked bit of kit.

Yeah, cheetah's cool but the more I look at it, the more I realize I am surrounded by Curtis Chips... Cheetah is nice but very close to Oberheim Matrix 1000. Almost a "lite" version of OM1K. Akai is largely overlooked coz' without FX it sounds thin and... limited. I have a true love/hate affair with it. I love the looks of it but hate the limitations. Even with sub oscilator it still sounds thin. Couldn't create a single patch that would be impossible to re-create with other gear I got in my arsenal. So, I'll be dumping it soon. Mine is in museum condition - not a single f-n scratch, looks like it came out of the box only a day ago.

Oh, and Matrix 12 - is everything I expected and then some. I can actually see where Access and Andromeda got their start. This is definitely the lushest pad machine in the world. Check out "Liquid" by Klangkraftwelten - it was done purely on Oberheim Matrix 12. <-- Excellent chill out track, very airy and eerie!

http://www.mixposure.com/song.php?songid=10539

If you don't crave a M12 after that, you're sonically dead

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

--Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)