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:idea: Maybe you could start EquipKeyboard @ajaik for all that retro comp & game gear. 😉

Don't think I haven't thought about it many times over the past decade :-)

And building APIs and web apps is my day job but Im no UX designer LOL

Ha! Is that how that works? Does a PolyBrute trump a Pro3?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHGZsq10nFV-txtM5h1xZ8vynQwQR4QWE

Can we fix the image ? Its small and has a magnifying glass in the bottom left corner.

May I suggest this replacement image ? https://d1jtxvnvoxswj8.cloudfront.net/wysiwyg/akai-pro/pdp/mpc-live-2/akaipro-mpc-live-ii-ortho-web_2.jpg

Well, maybe, the PolyBrute is definitely an original fresh take on a flagship polysynth - I think the multi-purpose mod matrix has more possibilities than most other synths and the morphing modulator control is a first on any synth.

I have a bit of a story about DAWs: I was very much into hardware as a kid in the 80s but dabbled with things like Steinberg Pro24 and still own two Atari STs (you may recall they came with MIDI ports :-) and trackers were very much a thing back then. But I mentioned in the bio above I went away to college for a few years in the early 90s and kinda lost track of what was happening in electronic music production, so I never really totally got into software synths or DAWs, and missed out on their evolution. Fast forward 20 years though, DAWs have become commonplace and very sophisticated (also expensive) and for awhile it felt like hardware was in decline and I wasn't interested in music software much. I still haven't taken the plunge (I know I will need to at some point), but the past few years we've come full circle because of the renaissance in synth hardware. Its kinda ironic to me that companies like Arturia now make hardware dontcha think ?

I just pre-ordered the Uno Synth Pro, again from a company that made a name for itself in software...

I have a friend who worked for Nintendo on a major title who now lives in Kyoto. He was showing off his Pro 3 on FB... so now Im saving up for a PolyBrute :-)

You could say the same thing about music gear. Right now, I have so much gaming stuff I don't know exactly what I do and don't have so this would be a way to document what's in my collection so I know what Im doing when Im on eBay :-) Might be useful for insurance purposes or simply a way to be able to display your collection. But it would definitely need to be organized and displayed differently - having everything on one page simply wouldn't work, you would have to break it down into categories.

I wish I had worked in the gaming industry (though Im not sure I would be making as much money and be able to buy as much nice synth gear :-)

Another newb just saying hello here.

Born and raised in the UK, I was really into electronic music and synths as a teenager in the 80s. Ive tried my hand at learning violin, piano and guitar. Of course I couldn't afford to buy any electronic gear back then but I looked older than my years, old enough to score tickets to go to music industry trade fairs in London where I could get excited by the latest and greatest (I remember checking out the then new Fairlight with that cool light pen :-)

Taught myself programming and I forgot all about synths when I went to college in London (spent way too much time socializing and hanging in computer labs). I came to the States after graduating where Ive lived (mostly in NYC) for about 20+ years. Now that Im a seasoned software engineer, making a decent living, I have rediscovered my forgotten passion for synths and electronic gear and now I can actually afford to buy stuff to play with :-) Im also trying to learn bass.

Oh and I also collect retro computers and gaming hardware - I wish there was something like Equipboard for that stuff.

I realized the original image I used has a grey background, but I found this image which has no background: https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5d2f67f03cba1f04732daf13/5fd749e2eb2fea4f9e88060b_torso-electronics-packshot-T-1-top-2.jpg

Any chance we can remove the existing tiny image (which includes a magnifying glass) and replace it with a decent image like here: https://d1jtxvnvoxswj8.cloudfront.net/wysiwyg/akai-pro/pdp/mpc-live-2/akaipro-mpc-live-ii-ortho-web_2.jpg