What were your first synths? Fondly remembering

First keyboard was a Casiotone MT-68 as a gift one Christmas. A chocolate coloured slab of 80s Casio cheese, preset rhythms, auto accompaniment modes etc. Not a synth in any way, just an organ really. As a kid I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t make it sound like Vangelis or Jarre.

Many decades later I bought a Yamaha CS1x from a shop in London, and carried it home on the bus (it was massive!) and that was my first real synth-y synth but was crushed when I released it was only multi-timbral in some shitty GM sound mode.

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