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Hi Jimmy !
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> I've been using some of the list's store of presets--I think the 
> English patches--and found a group called MKS that are very nice. What 
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I suppose it's a Roland synth, the MKS 80. It was an expander module, a 
formula very used in the 80's, when analog monsters disappeared to be 
replaced by stacks of 19" racks. One or 2 keyboards and some expanders 
adding more voices, different sound textures... The MKS 80 was the 
flagship of a family of similar instruments, see :
http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/mks80.php
http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/mks50.php
based on the Juno - Jupiter keyboard family. These are now sought after 
collector's items and the last Roland's real analogs, quickly followed 
and replaced by the (again...) famous D50, a purely digital synth, and 
its "linear arithmetic" synthesis. Yamaha and Casio shot first with 
respectively the DX and CZ series digital synths. More voices, more 
patch memory...
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> I also tried some sounds through my old Fender tube amp and a 15 inch 
> speaker. My wife threatened to divorce me. Marvelous wall shaking sound.
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With a 15", you bet ...
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> Jimmy
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Cheers.
J.F.
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