Well, since this IS on the topic of the Korg MS20 and how at NAMM 2013 a recreation of the moment Dave Smith and Roland firstly connected the first two synths with the midi standard; with Dave Smith using his then-Sequential Circuits new and first ever all analog poly synth with midi, the Prophet 600. THAT synth was also my FIRST analog polysynth back in 1983 but had to part ways with her due to military committments and mobility issues almost 20 years exactly. I learned synthesis on the Korg MS20 and have been (and am still) excited about the re-release of the 86% version talked about in this thread.
Recently have been talking to a retired electronic music producer that is weeding down a massive collection of instruments that he and his partner have accumulated over many years. Was presented with opportunity to re-purchase my analog SCI Prophet 600 in a roadcase, in great shape aside from wear on wood end-cheeks (something I will give my father to recreate out of original oak in his workshop), and one key that has been epoxied where it had started to crack at the very second to last bass octave (C1) key, with orig. manuals for about same coin as the Korg MS20-Mini and tax. Am planning on making this work for analog poly and will finally sell a lessor-used synth to justify it. Am pretty psyched!
The MS20-mini is still a consideration and am told with huge amounts of preorders, will be lucky if April/May will be able to make that choice. Am just not all that fond of leaving my financial info open-ended on a pre-order with anyone, for identity theft reasons, etc.
The Prophet 600 has an CV-IN for the filter that can be used with pedals, other synths, and with full midi, will integrate nicely in set-up. It's definitely not just a 'romantic connection' with this synth, as other than a Prophet 5, and having played friend's juno's, et al--nothing still touches this aside from of course a Moog; with the Prophet 600 actually having exact same analog osc's, VCF, 2 VCA's, as Prophet 5, with the envelopes being actually software (1982) a "poor man's Prophet" but sounds so good! This really balances out the heavy digital side of things with just one or two of it's 6 voice/12 VCO's, sounding very more warm than DSi Prophet 08, but of course the 08 has many more technical abilities due to technology.
Happy Happy Joy Joy!!
