First consider looking at the very excellent and essential A-Z of Analogue Synthesisers by Peter Forest. If you are serious about buying he gives details of many faults you are almost guaranteed to find with...
The first thing you should make your mind up on, is what you want to buy and how much you are prepared to pay for it. To do this successfully, you should have some idea as to what sells for what in the current...
There are a few things you should be aware of when buying second hand synthesizers on ebay, for that matter not only on ebay but through the free ads, whether its loot, sound on sound or the plethoror of...
Yamaha DJX Mk1 I cannot say anything bad about this machine - it almost lacks nothing unless you are a home organist looking for auto-RHUMBA arrangements. The DJX is full of rave and electro type rhythms...
Casio CTK 631 The Casio CTK 631 is a full featured,full size key,5 octave, stereo touch sensitive keyboard with backlit display. It has an onboard mixer and can store 2 whole songs. There are the 127 GM...
Casio DH-100 The Casio DH-100 is a monophonic MIDI instrument with 6 tones : Saxaphone,Trumpet,Synth Reed,Oboe,Clarinet,Flute. All of the tone's timbre changes depending on the breath control from the...
Propellerheads Reason really is the defining 'all-in-one' music production package. It offers a powerful but intuative interface based on modelling hardware devices rather than complicated software operations....
Yamaha PSS-50 This is a monophonic (single speaker) 2.5 Octave small keys keyboard with 100 tones and split and layering effects. There are also 13 built in songs and a computer aided music function. ...
There are many different types of effect pedals. Some are designed to give you that traditional "rock/metal guitar" sound like overdrive and distortion pedals; others, such as fuzz pedals, can give you a...
Yamaha PSR420 The PSR 420 is a 5 octave stereo touch sensitive keyboard with 128 GM voices 8 drum kits and 100 Rhythms. The 420 includes a registration feature which stores front panel settings that you...