That’s great info, many thanks! That makes a lot of sense, now that it is explained. In practice, just turning knobs and listening it never bothered me (I’ve had the Monostation for at least two years and never noticed it until now).
To be honest i don’t even know why that JD is there, i put it there one day and just kinda can’t be bothered to move it 
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You are quite right, I had not thought about them being audio type potis, which are quite a pain in the ass if you mistakenly install them in your guitar in the wrong place. I did that once.
I had not put that together though, thanks for pointing it out. 
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Well, guess that mystery is solved, eh Scooby?
seems so. Not sure why they went this way though…it just makes a lot of useless range of the knob. Well, as you said, now we know, and knowing is half the battle. Or something.
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It seems odd to me as well for gain staging purposes, though I can’t imagine wanting a synth at less than 50% volume for that.
Now I’m wondering what the rest of my gear is like and if I’ve ever owned a synth with a volume knob vs. a linear knob before.
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Kind of a stolen idea but…I’m curious…what do you all consider your original hardware setup? I’m sure many of you have told me before…but…pot head…so I don’t remember.
I’d say mine was an ESX (Electribe SX) + Mopho Desktop.
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Roland xp-50 followed by a mpc 1000 and a Waldorf microwave. All used. That was in Montreal around 2005 to 2007 ish. The Xp-50 had a couple expansions installed and had great sounds!
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I didn’t start until a bit over two years ago, started with a DSI Rev2 (which I was just playing earlier today) and then later added an FX unit, which I didn’t enjoy and sold. To me, I feel like I’m still on the first iteration of that setup because I haven’t moved or anything, so I still have most of my stuff and it just keeps growing and getting moved around.
Today, I wired up the audio input of my Matrixbrute into my patchbay and set up a preset to use it as an FX send for the analog delay in there. Worked great once I got the gainstaging right on the input (it has a pop-out trim knob on the back that was a real pain to find). It’s just what my Microfreak needed, sounded good on my Rev2 as well.
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It was the age before the internet so coming across info was hard, especially as a noob with no knowledge of the electronic scene as I was too busy with punk and hardcore.
So my first piece of shit was a horrible Yamaha Djx 2. Let’s not waste digital ink on it.
The piece I consider my first setup was the Roland MC-505.
For comparison here it is next to the Akai Force
And I complain about the size of the Force…
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Cassette 4 track, Alesis Sr16, Yamaha su10 sampler, couple of guitars and a duck ton of pedals.
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A Korg es-1 and a boombox with mic input
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A golden Monologue with some cheap guitar pedals. I still have all of it, as I tend to never sell music equipment.
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Thanks for sharing everyone, very interesting to know how your journeys began having watched how everyone’s setups have evolved over time.
Pretty sure I found IDMf because I was asking questions about the ESX and damn that might be almost 10 years ago now.
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Damn, that was waaaay too long ago - we’re talking 1985 here 
Bass guitar (can’t remember the brand, it was semi-decent, weighed a ton - bit like a Fender Precision Bass) + 2nd hand amp that was rather shit and electrocuted me a couple times.
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That’s pretty punk rock lol
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One stronger shock made me realize it could get worse than a simple mild electrocution if I kept using it so I never turned it on afterwards. I moved to the guitar anyway so that was good timing!
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First piece of gear I ever bought was an MPC 2500 not even realizing what a sampler was. I got rid of it when I realized it didn’t synthesize it’s own sound. Following that my first setup that I actually used was made up of a Yamaha RS7000 master sequencer / groove box, Alesia Micron and a MO-Phatt romper.
First time I hooked it all up I was super stoked to get it going. Got all the midi sorted, hit play, no sound. I was so pissed after some googling to learn that MIDI didn’t carry audio and I was going to have to wait for more cables to arrive before I could actually hear it all, lol.
Shortly after that I discovered Elektron, that would have been 2008 or so. I then sold all that for a Monomachine and have been a fanboi ever since.
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Cables are the bane of hardware. When you buy some hardware (not necessary musical) and a necessary cable is not provided in the box… urgghhh. It’s like buying a brand new car and you’d have to buy one wheel separately 
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Actually i lied, i had a boss drum machine before that but i dont remember what it was other than a pos. And a 4 track tape thing. But i consider the above post my first real setup.
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