Vintage Synth Explorer

1500$? Ha, that's a good one! I got mine in mint condition for 58 Euros (~80$) a few months ago. Had only to be cleaned and needed a new backup battery. Everything above 150 $ is expensive and NOT worth it. The synth is nice,though. Typical 4 OP FM sound, very much like the DX27 I once owned (they use the same Yamaha chip) and I like the DS-8 a lot more for it is very easy to program and the Timbre-slider is very effective. But if it really was worth 1500$... someone out there who wants to trade mine for a mint Mono/Poly or MS-20? :oD

Message to Megasynth: whats the name and location of your store. Are you on Ebay or your own website.

Some guy brought a mint condition DS-8 into my shop today. It came with a great Korg patch library, one of the best sounds being the square wave. It's from 1986 and I'm pricing it at $1500. It's worth every penny.

this thing is amazing. got it for sixty bucks in a pawn shop in connecticut and melted part of the memory block with a soldering gun and now it makes sounds that technically dont exist...
if your into the strange and weird nothing better than early experimental digital synthesis
true fm also, not like yamahas phase modulation synthesis they passed off as FM somehow.

I've had this board since the late 80's as well. I've updated my home studio equipment I don't know how many times, but this board has been sitting right there in the loop. The 300 additional sounds on the library card are very useful patches. I did a couple of local CD projects using primarily the sounds on this board. Now I use it as a MIDI controller, but when I just can't find that sound I'm looking for, I'll plug a patch cord into it and go to work. Manipulating the existing sounds is very easy using the Performance Editor functions, and creating new sounds is just as easy. I don't plan on ever replacing it.