A sample-based mono-timbral polyphonic rompler labeled as “Performance synthesizer”. Quite basic sound editability: 2 ADSR envelopes, one for the volume and the other to modulate the lopass filter. Reverb. 2 sound banks with 32 factory sounds each, and a possibility to save another 32 in a user sound bank. Two sounds from the same bank could be combined into one by selecting them simultaneously. Even though this one really doesn’t count as a synthesizer, it was the one that got me into synths. It also introduced me to MIDI, when I connected it to my first 386-PC with a Gravis Ultrasound sound card. I used it mostly as a master keyboard, for which it was quite nice. Having not really used it for several years, I ended up selling it in 2000. I don’t particularly miss it.
Analog one-oscillator monosynth. I never really did anything with this one, but on the other hand making music was far from my mind when I got this one. I just bought it because I had always been interested in sythesizers, and music made with them. Plus, it was dirt cheap. As far as synths go, this one was so simple that it wasn’t even particularly interesting. It had selectable basic waveforms (square, triangle and sine, and possibly even noise, I think) and a lowpass filter which could be modulated by an envelope. It may be possible that several wave forms could be selected simultaneously, but I’m not sure. No other modulation was possible, so this was strictly a beep-and-bwaaooouunngg-machine. I only listened to it through its crappy internal speaker, so for all I know it could secretly be the ultimate bass machine. I sold it quite quickly, and bought a Roland JX-1 instead.