Whats the best synth to use for techno music?
This is an example of possibly the most common type of question we receive here at SOS, and yet it is also a question that is unanswerable in any direct or definitive way. What might be a complete waste of cash to one musician could be an absolute essential to a million others. For example, some techno musicians won’t use anything but authentic vintage analogue synths on their records, while other equally successful techno artists wouldn’t touch the vagaries of analogue circuitry and interfacing with a 10-foot pole! Choosing the right synth or, while we’re at it, the right sampler, mixer, sequencer, microphone, monitor… is not something that can be done for you. The only person with first-hand knowledge of what you want from a purchase is you. Fortunately, obtaining an answer to such a question for yourself is, in principle, straightforward: you decide what you need this techno synth to do and then you find a synth that does these things. However, actually following this advice can i
