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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 synth does that refer to?

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.

Jimmy

mks80 which are jupiter8 in a rack

or a today equivelent would be the jp8000 and jp8080

but the osc specs of the an1x are better than either as i sync modes you get 3 osc

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  From: spaceanimals 
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  Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:52 PM
  Subject: [AN1x] mks?


    
  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 synth does that refer to?

  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.

  Jimmy



  

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Op 17-1-2012 21:52, spaceanimals schreef:

> 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 synth does that refer to?

The MKS80.

- Peter

Hi Jimmy !
spaceanimals a \ufffdcrit :
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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 
> synth does that refer to?
>
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.
>
With a 15", you bet ...
>
>
> Jimmy
>
Cheers.
J.F.

>
>
>

Jimbo,
 
MKS was the Roland prefix for all of their rack units in the 80s.  There were about 8 or so iterations – all mostly digitally controlled analog and racks of their keyboards.  Except the one that was a multi timbral unit (MKS-7).  I have an MKS-50, a rack Alpha Juno… highly recommended.  The MKS-80 the others referred to was the flagship and pulls down HUGE money due mostly to its reputation.
 
Here’s a lovely and descriptive site: http://analoghell.com/studio/mks/
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Subject: [AN1x] mks?
 
  
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 synth does that refer to?

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.

Jimmy

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