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Doing my usual thrift store rounds today I saw something in the 
distance that I thought was another Casio piece of crap and when I got 
closer discovered it was a Juno-106! Looked at the price 
tag......$19.99. Um yea....let me think about that for a few 
milliseconds....duh. No power cable, but the goofy socket Roland put in 
there was interchangable with a standard IEC type socket so I stuffed 
one of those in to make it standard. Cleaned it up, powered it up and 
it all works (no dead voice, yay). Not bad for $20 eh? Never know what 
you'll find in those "junk stores".....fer sher. Now if it was a 
Prophet or a Jupiter 8 I'd probably have had a heart attack right there 
on the spot.

--- In kawai_sx210@yahoogroups.com, "boardjunkie1" <boardjunkie@t...> 

Wonderful find, but you hurt my feelings!! If you come across a casio
mz2000, you may pass up the best keyboard made, for making music.














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> Doing my usual thrift store rounds today I saw something in the 
> distance that I thought was another Casio piece of crap and when I got 
> closer discovered it was a Juno-106! Looked at the price 
> tag......$19.99. Um yea....let me think about that for a few 
> milliseconds....duh. No power cable, but the goofy socket Roland put in 
> there was interchangable with a standard IEC type socket so I stuffed 
> one of those in to make it standard. Cleaned it up, powered it up and 
> it all works (no dead voice, yay). Not bad for $20 eh? Never know what 
> you'll find in those "junk stores".....fer sher. Now if it was a 
> Prophet or a Jupiter 8 I'd probably have had a heart attack right there 
> on the spot.

Oh,  I wasn t saying *all* Casios are junk, just most of them as they were consumer machines. I almost bought a CZ-1 at a pawn shop for $130.00 just to use as

I bought an Oberheim 6R for 75$ a few months ago... went to burn a 
rom IC for my Trident's MIDI converter circuit and there it was. The 
guy at the shop didn't even know what it was... Got the synth (plus 
the service) for 75$. Didn't utilize it much yet though.

There are great findings in the flea markets - I bought my Farfisa 
Lido organ for the same 75$, and a Korg MS-10 for 100$.






--- In kawai_sx210@yahoogroups.com, "Travis Shire" <boardjunkie@t...> 
wrote:
> Oh,  I wasn't saying *all* Casios are junk, just most of them as 
they
> were consumer machines. I almost bought a CZ-1 at a pawn shop for 
$130.00
> just to use as a midi controller. Thought about it for a few days 
and
> went back for it.......gone of course. Oh well. Yea, Casio made a 
select
> few stabs at the pro market and did ok.
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: texhand
>   To: kawai_sx210@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [kawai_sx210] Re: Interesting find today
>   Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:59:07 -0000
> 
>   --- In kawai_sx210@yahoogroups.com, "boardjunkie1" 
<boardjunkie@t...>
> 
>   Wonderful find, but you hurt my feelings!! If you come across a 
casio
>   mz2000, you may pass up the best keyboard made, for making music.
> 
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>   wrote:
>   > Doing my usual thrift store rounds today I saw something in the
>   > distance that I thought was another Casio piece of crap and 
when I
>   got
>   > closer discovered it was a Juno-106! Looked at the price
>   > tag......$19.99. Um yea....let me think about that for a few
>   > milliseconds....duh. No power cable, but the goofy socket Roland
>   put in
>   > there was interchangable with a standard IEC type socket so I
>   stuffed
>   > one of those in to make it standard. Cleaned it up, powered it 
up
>   and
>   > it all works (no dead voice, yay). Not bad for $20 eh? Never 
know
>   what
>   > you'll find in those "junk stores".....fer sher. Now if it was a
>   > Prophet or a Jupiter 8 I'd probably have had a heart attack 
right
>   there
>   > on the spot.
> 
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--- In kawai_sx210@yahoogroups.com, "Travis Shire" <boardjunkie@t...> 

That is right. I know you meant, the real cheezy ones. I would like a
bargin on an alesis micron. I may like it or may not, but the features
seem like alot for moderate price. Anyone here tried one? But then
again , I need to work on the vocals, so my $ now is going to that
gear. I am pretty satisfied with what i get out of the sx210, and a
few other analogs. I may wish one day all was on the computer... who
knows?  I have not tried the soft synths. It would be the only way i
would get a CS 80 , Minimoog or CS pro one!












wrote:
> Oh,  I wasn't saying *all* Casios are junk, just most of them as they
> were consumer machines. I almost bought a CZ-1 at a pawn shop for
$130.00

> just to use as a midi controller. Thought about it for a few days and
> went back for it.......gone of course. Oh well. Yea, Casio made a select
> few stabs at the pro market and did ok.
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: texhand
>   To: kawai_sx210@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [kawai_sx210] Re: Interesting find today
>   Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:59:07 -0000
> 
>   --- In kawai_sx210@yahoogroups.com, "boardjunkie1" <boardjunkie@t...>
> 
>   Wonderful find, but you hurt my feelings!! If you come across a casio
>   mz2000, you may pass up the best keyboard made, for making music.
> 
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> 
>   wrote:
>   > Doing my usual thrift store rounds today I saw something in the
>   > distance that I thought was another Casio piece of crap and when I
>   got
>   > closer discovered it was a Juno-106! Looked at the price
>   > tag......$19.99. Um yea....let me think about that for a few
>   > milliseconds....duh. No power cable, but the goofy socket Roland
>   put in
>   > there was interchangable with a standard IEC type socket so I
>   stuffed
>   > one of those in to make it standard. Cleaned it up, powered it up
>   and
>   > it all works (no dead voice, yay). Not bad for $20 eh? Never know
>   what
>   > you'll find in those "junk stores".....fer sher. Now if it was a
>   > Prophet or a Jupiter 8 I'd probably have had a heart attack right
>   there
>   > on the spot.
> 
> 
> 
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The Native Instruments Pro-53 (prophet emulator) is a great sounding softsynth, as is the B4 (hammond emu). I tried a demo version of the minimoog V and never