Who Is Your Favourite Synth Manufacturer? - The Results 

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Thanks for sharing Ian 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Great experiment! I guess I’m going to have to switch to another company. I don’t like to do the popular thing!! Haha! Thanks for sharing this, Ian. Super interesting!

“Sequential/Oberheim” votes were because Sequential makes the only currently manufactured Oberheim synth(s) … Oberheim is part of Sequential now, basically

Yes ... my both (I've also chosen two manufacturers 😉) votes are ranked in the "middle". Thank you.

Very interesting!!! I believe I voted Sequential #1 (and hoped Moog would be last since they've gone off the charts with the wokeness crap). Another excellent video Ian!! : )

I'm probably too new to the subject to have been able to vote. I would likely have gone Roland, although agree with other commenters in that they do seem to be concentrating on reissuing their old gear in various forms. I do have to give a shout out to Studiologic. I have a Sledge 2, which has given me a lot of bang for buck and has been great for learning on. I suppose it could come under the Waldorf banner, being a collaboration.

Seems fair! I missed the video the other week, but strangely if I look at the number of synths I own by manufacturer, you’d have a pretty good guess who my favourite would be: Roland 13, Moog 5, Korg 3, Yamaha 3, Emu 2, and a BArp. Yep, my favourite is Sequential 😂 Surprised Teenage Engineering didn’t make the cut 😂

I'm sure it would be possible to have a way to include individual 2nd to 5th places by using weight factors. Top 1000 shows have been doing that forever. Have a great Sunday!

Got the Roland's D's cheap due to keyboard ribbon faults, Love all my Korg's, But as a pure digital "analogue" DAC unit, Novation Supernova 2 rack job. Also, a company that will send spares for a 20-year-old piece of gear.

At this moment: Behringer ASM Rides in the Storm. Lots of bang for the buck.

I know you emphasised one vote only and I'm guilty of providing 3 as I followed someone else and thought it may be useful for a bit more context. And yes, expected you'd only take the top answer. Pleased and not that surprised to see my 3 listed in the top 3, just in a different order. I voted in order: Sequential, Roland and Korg. Not surprised Korg came out on top as they do seem to be keeping developments going / adding a new twist (WaveState, OP6, ModWave, Prologue). I'll always have a soft spot for Roland but I don't think they've really moved synthesis forward in the last decade as they seem to be cashing in on their 80s Jupiter, Juno, TR names. What's Juno DS got to do with Juno6(0). PS love your channel :)

I chose Roland below your previous video on the subject, Ian, because I have purchased more equipment (both synthesizers and guitar amps/processors) from Roland (and Boss) than the others I’ve purchased equipment built by. Yamaha gets honorable mention between the handful of synths and piano I’ve had and a combination of guitars and drum/percussion instruments. It didn’t make sense to choose Korg, since I’ve only owned a paltry 4 units made by them from 1997 to 2024. Was it a mistake to go by my own purchases in lieu of reverence?

I would have gone Kirghiz. First since was a Wavestation SR and I loved it.

interesting survey, I thought Korg would be high up, tho' I picked behringer

Sorry, that would include me 😔

I thought Korg would come out top. They seem to innovate a lot more than the others. They have done some whacky stuff. The Monopoly plugin skin that looked like a Monopoly board. So original. The Korg DSN 12 on the 3ds. Very cool and it sounded phatt. The Trinity with it's touchscreen - not to mention the M1. They have consistently innovated. I find their user interfaces much easier on the workstations than Yammy or Roland. I am not sure about them lately with some pricing decisions....but I do like the fact they do software and hardware. I loved the idea of the Volca Modular but didn't like the sound......maybe they can have another bash. The Prologue for all it's criticisms was simple and very nice sounding to me.....and the Minilogue made analogue more affordable. Korg Gadget VR. Amazing. The control of it in VR is awful at the moment - but let's see what happens there. I voted for Novation because I thought the Supernova and the X Station/K Station and the KS Series were really nice designs. Very futuristic and that 'Liquid Analogue' term which was great. The Supernova was like a Rolls Royce of a synth. I'd love a SuperNova II keyboard. It's that blue...............and those leds and glowing screen. The X Station is my desert island synth. Arturia are doing amazing stuff as well.

What abput dreadbox?