It was then last year in 2007 around this same time that I had an opportunity to buy a Synthi A Mk 1 from someone in NY. I was so excited when it finally arrived, it looked lovelier than the pictures, this being the first one I had ever seen in-person. My first reaction to the sound was that the oscillators seemed alive.. a pure sine wave with no treatment sounds like it could etch images in glass. Finally, this was the synth I had been looking for since I heard it’s sounds, almost subconsciously, in my youth on BBC programs…thank you BBC Radiophonic Workshop. End of story?? not quite…read more here (…)
