My next synth, which I hoped would be better and that I could afford, was a Yamaha DS55, but it wasn’t. But, I did buy a Roland D-50 – 30 years later! It was just like being in heaven for couple a seconds. Also I played once on a Roland D-50 in a music shop. Those times I played on a borrowed Roland D-20, which I liked very much, but it was too expensive for me to buy one. Of course, I made a lot of tracks on it with some help from a tape machine, but I really hate Yamaha PSR36 cheesy sound. But for me, it was just a sound which I really didn’t like. Today, some people find this keyboard nostalgic. It was just a keyboard with some basic synth options: a Yamaha PSR36. So, I decided to sell my Commodore 64, which I regret until today (I now have another one, but it is not my original) in order to to buy a synth that I could afford. It doesn’t have any real warmth or depth. Despite the SID having an original sound, sonically this is a very rudimentary sound in the field of sound quality. Now, when CHIP music is very popular, it is not so clear to me. The SID chip in the from Commodore 64 wasn’t enough for me. We didn’t have the money to buy expensive synths. We didn’t have synth TV commercials or music magazines. Poland was under communism and all the knowledge about synths was, for the most part, hidden. But, in 80s it was not so obvious for me. Until this day, it is like JMJ was getting something out of synthesisers that still sounding really like it was not composed on synths.Īnd from those times, in 1980’s started my chase for having good sounding real hardware analog synths. The music on the „Oxygene” was cosmic, was not from this world. I felt in love with those sounds, those leads, portamentos, basses. Then when I first heard the SID chip from Commodore 64 and tunes from Martin Galway and Rob Hubbard. It all started when I first heard Jean Michel Jarre album “ Oxygene“.
I’ve been a big synthesizer music fan from many, many years.
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