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Jon,
Sorry, but I must profess to being woefully ignorant of keyboards during the period I was with that particular band. Looking back, I think it was a drum machine, like a yamaha RX5 or Rx7 -- but the memory just isn't what it used to be. I remember that particular keyboard player had a Roland and an Ensoniq, along with a couple of boxes -- but that's about it. :)

In my old prog rock days, I used to love playing with my keyboard player's mini, and would borrow it and just twist knobs for hours. I had always been fascinated by the likes of Larry Fast, Tomita, Kraftwerk, Emerson, Wakeman -- all the 70's synth gurus.

In the 80s though, when midi came out, I lost interest, and never cared much for synths after that. No knobs, no fun. 

Shamefully, I didn't really even know the difference in synths until last spring. After being out of music for a couple of years, (having traded my last set of drums in 96 for a mini-van) I decided to try to buy on old mini and give synths a go -- thus giving life to an old fantasy of being a keyboard god. 

Still haven't got the mini, and I'm certainly not even close to being a minor diety, but I'm having a lot of fun. And I'm looking forward to adding a *real* AN1x to my CS6x/AN and MicroQ in just a couple of weeks!

-bruce
(former dumb drumer, now synthesist in training)




Bruce,
Was there not also a box along similar lines called a 'Garfield Master 
Beat'? Or was that a SMPTE/MTC solution? I seem to recall it was out 
around the same period as the Human Clock?

Jon



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