I recently got back into my JX-10 and I'm finding it to be pretty awesome. You absolutely need a controller, but it has a sound that makes it easy to get something usable - especially with short chord stabs. Not that you couldn't get sounds like this today, but it's got a lack of sparkle and is a bit dark in tone that I really like.

Thanks - yes for sure - a lot of balls in motion this fall but it's been awesome to finish our album. I'm pretty excited about it's release on Dec 6th.

@@johnnymorgansynthdreams it will be bittersweet. Tod’s final performances, but it’s great that it’s happening. I heard Kerry doing the second vocals on Glammhammer on Hiwatt’s channel, and it was an awesome teaser.

Puppy were such a big influence for me

@johnnymorgansynthdreams oh, I realized that when you started plucking out Testure. 😉

Thanks! Yes - I put that together for the video - I love Staccato Heaven!

@ any chance to place it at soundcloud or spotify? Would love to listen to it 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for the kind words. The D-50 really takes me back to such a fond time, and it really does have that special something. It came out at a time in my life where being able to play the sounds it made would influence me forever.

Oh man - yeah! That was the time to buy a 909 for sure

This is a great tutorial on it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4nEm5qoa7ZlqtE

@johnnymorgansynthdreams Thanks!!!

Thanks Alex!

The 707 is actually pretty decent. In 1986-1987 it was the early sound for Acid House. I still really love the sound of the 707 - it's different, but still works well. Just wish the build quality was a bit better - it feels so cheap.

Thanks - it's all Prophet 5 with the 909

Hey Sam - thanks for that detailed info. So much 909 history from '85 that was start of the ground swell - even Phil Collins in Take Me Home. During that time the 707 was equally as popular in early Acid tracks / Chicago house as well. Mantronik was a pioneer of the 909 for sure though. I mean there is sooo much 909 history it's probably a 2 hour deep dive easily.

@@johnnymorgansynthdreams Definitely! I had a 707 in 1985, and I loved it! But even back then it never had quite the "cred" of the 808/909 - it WAS considerably cheaper than either one (used prices back in the day). Even after the 808/909 were discontinued it's not quite true that those machines were affordable for most people (maybe, if you were lucky at a pawn shop than had no idea?). I think this idea of "cheap 808/909" may be part of Detroit techno lore, or "maybe" in Detroit you could buy those at less cost? Definitely in California, where i was, both of those devises, even in the 80's after they were discontinued, were too expensive for most of us. In any case, (in the mid to late 80's) a lot of us settled for buying a Roland R-8 (or samplers, which had become affordable). The R8 was a great (digital) drum machine that had 808 & 909 ROM cards, but yeah, it wasn't the real thing. I guess my point is that the 808/909, although commercial failures for mainstream pop/rock applications in the early 80's, were always in demand for a lot of producers making dance & hip-hop in the mid 80's, and those machines were never considered "obsolete" or even affordable for most people. I would have had an 808 in 1988 if it was something affordable. LOL!

@@SamUrtonDesign So true - I remember looking forever for a 909 - they were still very much in demand all through the late 80s and 90s. They were able to be found though - we combed pawn shops and buy-sells and eventually got multiple 303's, an 808 and 909 for all very low / cheap prices.

Thanks AWM!

Awesome - yes it's like a 2 hour Doc if you wanted to cover it all.. Just shows how epic the Tr-909 really has been. And yes - ZuluSCSI is the way to go!

Lol totally.

It's a guy from Roland. He still uses the actual hi-hat that was sampled in a jazz band!

@@wjec1970 Atsushi Hoshiai

@@wjec1970 Here's a video of those cymbals being used in his jazz band kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5jJiWare7-fq7s

I'll have to check that out. Damn - I'll see if I can edit those credits. They're one of my all-time favorite bands and I actually knew Dwayne a little bit back in the early 90s. I love how they totally mangled the snare sound in the reverb chamber at Mushroom studios.

Sometimes Key takes suggestions on who to invite for his Sunday live chats. It would be so great to see you two together! I didn't think the credits omission was intended at all, especially given that you can easily tell your appreciation for them!

For sure - something about that simple single OSC sound and those Roland filters.

Hell ya!

Pro tip: put on the album Too Dark Park after some square paper in the mouth

@@rdubb77 that album is twisted - just listened to the b-side today actually. What craziness.