When I was in Hawaii, my friend of many years Timothy Hendricks (23 degrees) generously gave me his TR-909 (of course I still consider it a LOAN). Tim and I have done a lot of music together back in the day. Reggae and House. His group 23 Degrees tore up San Francisco in the mid 90’s.
Not only do I love the 909 sounds (think Acid House!) but it is of the time period that it has MIDI plus Roland Sync and…. Trigger Output! I love triggers because I use them to control other analog devices. Although you can sample all the sounds, I find that there’s things that I can do with control voltages and triggers that I would never have come up with in a strictly MIDI set up.
So… as a welcome to my new house guest (the 909), I have set up my gear and will start recording some new tracks soon I hope!
Here’s some pics:
From left to right… Top is a Moog Prodigy, below is a Moog Source. Next is a Korg 770. Behind that is an ARP 2600. In front of the ARP are two Obeheim modules: a SEM and an analog sequencer. In front of these is a Roland 606 drum machine (two triggers out!). Below is a closer pic of these:
Below are some effects, a StudioMaster Mixer and monitors.
Left is an Akai S-950, top of the keyboard stand is a Casio CZ-1000 and below a Yamaha DX11
I am intensely jealous.
Peter! haha… and I am intensely surprised that you found this post!
Hey man, do you know where i could pick up a second hand korg prodigy or korg 770 from? I’ve been searching and thought you’d be able to help.
Sorry… other than the obvious places like ebay (probably over priced), garage sales, second hand stores, local listings (e.g. paper or craig’s list), etc., there’s none that i know of.
This is one of the most beautiful blog entries in the history of the public web internets.
Thanks Rich! Wish I could figure out how to make time to use it more. Although I’m not, a bunch of the kids around here are though and that’s pretty cool.
Love it! Takes me right back to my studio. Wish I still had that equipment: 808; Prodigy; Rogue; 202; Juno … off to cry now.
Moog Source! A very awesome synth!
I had one a few years ago, but I had to sell it. :/ Same with my SH-101. :[
Just bought a Moog Source and out browsing for pics, very nice collection/studio.
Awesome! They are really nice synths!
oh shit this is… not fair
oh julian! haha. but it’s finally got a new home. setting things up this weekend better than ever. so…. expect some tracks soon and come over and play on your next visit!