MATRIXSYNTH: Roland PG-300


Saturday, March 29, 2008

Roland PG-300

via this auction
"Also known as the Juno/MKS-50 programmer. The Roland Alpha Juno 1 and 2 synthesizers were released in the mid 80's to widespread popular acclaim. The MKS-50 is the rack-mount version. These synths sound incredible. But......Roland made PROGRAMMING these synths OPTIONAL. They designed the PG-300 as an optional programmer allowing full, real-time control and editing of all of the parameters of the synthesizer (with real sliders and switches for every function) And what control it is... There are 25 sliders and 11 switches. Very kewl for real-time control. Thru MIDI Exclusive messages, the programmer does its magic, while sitting ON TOP of the Juno Synthesizer (or free-standing, in the case of controlling the MKS-50)."

3 comments:

  1. Wow, those bidders must be pretty desperate.

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  2. Yup. That is one of the more ridiculus prices I've seen for that thing. It typically does cost more than the synth its self. Almost bought one myself a year back for 299 cad. but after realising all the sliders were rusted in place I decided that would not be money well spent.

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  3. FYI: pg300s go for 200-300€ in European Ebays as nearly no one wants to hassle with taxes from US ... there seems to be a bit lack of them in EU. :)

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