Yeah, before I sold my 808 I took a bunch of samples from it, unprocessed, compared to the ACB 808 or processed 808 samples it does sound a bit duller, but I kind of like it. I guess a bit of hf roll off could get the ACB version to sound the same.
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I’ve never seen this one but it sounds good. Would love to hear it Live.
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Soma Enner
I feel that when you finish a session with this device, you look like this :
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Strange - but Soma instrunets for me dont sound like a “most analog”. Also Lyra 8 have digital delay
First time I played with a vintage MiniMoog I swear I could feel the electricity humming beneath the dials. It felt wild and unpredictable. Of course, likelihood is that it was badly earthed and in dire need of servicing, but that felt a huge step up from anything I’d played before in terms of sounding analog.
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That SH1 video is great! Like Equinox-era Jean-Michel Jarre. I didn’t know I wanted one 'til just now. (goes to find the list…)
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I find the Easel to be one of the most analog sounding thing from the demo I’ve heard but I never tried one for real so I can’t tell.
It might be because of the spring reverb maybe, I find that anything into a real spring reverb fit into my idea of analog sounding hahaha.
Nice demo of the 259 anyway !
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I just bought one of these on eBay 
I guess you like them?
I have been noticing that the Easel seems ever more conspicously absent in my room… Maybe that’s something that needs looking into. 
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definitely the EMS Synthi
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It’s the cigarette tucked between index and middle finger that makes it the most analog.
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no. i LOVE them. they do screaming and roaring jobs stunning.
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What about eurorack? Is there anything that stands out from the crowd in terms of “analogueness”?
I still avoid building a system but sometimes see modules like Erica Plasma, ACL modules, that strange fuzz with indicator… all that make me want a small hi end System at some point.
My current analog VCO is the Doepfer’s A 111-4: a beautiful sounding module, with resonable time to get in tune.
Some years ago I was exhited by how Volca Bass sounds warm and alive.
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I’d be quite curious to your thoughts on a syntrx if you ever get time on one… it is quite stable and playable over a large range, a bit like a half way point between a 2600 and a synthi. Probably the most analog thing I own, but I can also tell it is an Erica synths design, things are tuned towards naturally overdriven signals and feedback. It has a buffed matrix so it looses a bit of its unpredictable nature but if you patch enough feedback loops into the matrix stuff starts to become very uncertain again.
The other most analog thing I own is an old ewi unit, there is definitely something to these units, you do have to program all your patches from scratch in sort of crappy menu diving fashion if you want to play it with midi because it is meant to be played with breath control. Really not a joy to use but they sound great.
Metasonix stuff always seemed interesting… but almost a different thing when you are running everything through tubes.
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Alas, I am never likely to have the fortune to play one, as I live in a very small, rural town in Kansas so have no access. And I’m not likely to buy one, as I think I have it covered.
Having said that, if I didn’t have a VCS3 - and given the decades-long turnaround time for a new one - I would give the Syntrx a very deep consideration. As you say, it seems to be somewhere between the 2600 and EMS. The unbuffered matrix in the VCS3 is certainly a source of surprises and I love it enough that I’ve never installed any Portabellabz matrix buffers despite having bought a set.
Nevertheless, the Syntrx is new and that is potentially a big ‘plus’ for me. I struggle to maintain my collection of vintage synths and a new synth with some of the same objectives would be most welcome (I would have bought Korg’s beautiful 2600FS after reviewing it for Electronic Musician if I’d been allowed to. Alas, that wasn’t an option).
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That was precisely how I felt, and lockdown was the perfect time to bring one in at a decent price too. Good luck!
Such a synth.
There’s one on sale at Bax…
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My Harvestman polivox vco thru diy Yusynth Moog filter clone is sweeeet.
Macbeth oscillators in eurorack 
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I think the limited run is near its end. The IIIP recently sold out (
) and I see very few of these in stock now. I’ve been told by one retailer that there are a only few Model 10s remaining to be built.
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