Here's a sample (heh heh) of the various fun, LED-laden instruments we use! Most of the images were borrowed from Synthmuseum, a great place to learn more about these things.

The doepfer, an analogue modular synth and sequencer. This guy keeps growing, and Dr. Nick finally gave him a rack of his very own. We're presently waiting for even more fun bits for him from Germany. mmmmm, blinky LEDs. The waldorf pulse, though we initially used it only as a fancy CV converter for the Doepfer, has become a well liked synthesizer in its own right. The interface is a little odd, but the sounds are fat and it has a great arpeggiator. There are 2 prophet 600s in the band. We're very fond of them, despite the fact that they seem to need frequent maintenance. As they're also the oldest synths we use, this isn't too surprising. Fat bass, gooshy filter, and MIDI to boot. The Juno 106 is a great little synth, and has a nice analogue sound without the annoying habit of going out of tune like the older prophets. (Twice the tuning fun for us.) Unfortunately Dr. Nick's Juno is having oscillator issues and has been out of commission for a while. Another older Roland synth, the JD-800 is what coined Dr. Nick's high priesthood. Armed with a dizzying number of sliders to aid modulation, this synth makes great -if not distinctly digital-sounding- space drool. The Kurzweil K2000 is a good sampling/sequencing workhorse, has a nifty synth as well, and if that's not good enough, you can play pong! At one point all of Zurround had his/her own K2k. We like 'em a bunch, despite cursing the shortage of P-RAM and its love/hate relationship with SCSI. Back to the Main Page.