#tc electronics

Yeah me neither but it ain’t for a lack of trying. Not that I’m going ‘round licking doorknobs or doing dumb shit like that, mind you. Just living life normally—full of rage, hating society at large, and wishing a sudden, dramatic and catastrophic end to the world. Bwahahahaha!!

So the reason why I dropped the SK-15 so fast was because of the above. Korg EPS-1 from 1983. It’s in mint condition, but I found out after I got it that voice 8 in the piano section is dead. Strings section works fine. So I just use the output from the strings section and ignore piano for now (separate outs for both as well as a mix out). Hope to troubleshoot and fix it soon, and with all the coronanonsense going on, I may be in a “work from home” shituation (not a typo) very very soon. In any case, I read someplace that the strings section of this thing is the same as what was used in the Trident. Don’t know if that’s true, but it does sound good. This fucking thing is velocity sensitive too! What the hell? Polysix era shit, I mean look at the knobs if you can see them in the photo (same as Polysix. Mono/Poly). helluva big machine too, it’s like six octaves and three keys. Fun shit.

Rack attack. I sold the Timeline and Space, and got a TC Electronics M350 to fill their place. Delay and reverb in one unit. I’d been using the pedals in a kind of wasteful manner—set and forget. No point in having a bunch of knobs on a small effects processor if you’re not going to use them at all. And those two are pricey as fuck to just have sitting in one spot collecting dust really. Anyway so yeah M350. Under that is a D-TWO, probably my favorite rack delay ever. This thing is really neat. I love the tap rhythm function, as well as the reverse options. Much more complex than a simple delay. Great shit. The Korg AM8000R is under that. I wrote about that weirdo before. WEIRDO!!! Love it. And the final contender, at the bottom, down but not out, the venerable Roland JV-2080. Yes, Legowelt, it’s TOTALLY your fault I have this one (again). But it was a steal at $90, I shit you not, and it came with an expansion card, though not a sought after one—the “experience” expansion. I remembered how wonderful the D-, JD-, JV-, and XV- series synths sounded after I got the MC-505 (same basic engine but with what I think is a different selection of waveforms). Programming sounds on the MC was a breeze. But, I hadn’t really touched it since I came back from the US last summer so off it went. Uh, where was I? Oh yeah, so I want the D-JD- JV- XV- sound in my arsenal. Browsing the auction, I saw one for cheap, buy it now for $90 so I did. Spent a while playing and programming and was like goddam I need a JD-990. So yeah one of those is on the way. haa!

The last mystery member I’ve added to the family is the oddball Yamaha TQ5. It’s an EOS B200, or YS200 for the foreign market, in a box. Kind of like if you’d slapped a TX81Z, an REX50 and an 8-track sequencer together and stuck them in what looks like an answering machine, really. Freaky as fuck, man. Has the DX flavor because FM duhhh, but not as balls to the wall as a DX7 (really I’m always thinking DX7-II D when I think DX7)... but still very very nice for what it is. I found free editing software online, but haven’t had time to dive in quite yet. There are easy edit controls on the unit itself though, and it is possible to change the sound in straightforward though not extravagant ways, and for now that’s enough. Really neat little fucking wackjob of a synth module though!