Our First Love is the Sweetest Love; Static Revenger
by: Static Revenger aka Dennis White
The first synth i ever bought was a Roland Juno 6, in 1984 (ish). I keep it on display and plugged in to my studio to this day. It didn't have midi or preset storage. I had this little synth pop band, and we'd spend ages trying to figure out how to make the sounds from Duran Duran and Prince records.
When we came close, we'd write the settings down on the 'synthesis memo' sheets that were included in the manual. If you think waiting for a guitarist to tune up in between songs during a set was a pain in the arse… try waiting for a keyboardist to try to recreate a patch from scratch in between songs! I work around the fact that it isn't sequencable by recording it straight in to abelton live, and then I can quantize the audio in Live. Or, not.
