Cool. Looks like a mini Nord!
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Yet sounds so very different 
Steiner-Parker filter, very uncommon, love it
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I couldn’t tell for sure what factory strings came on my Squier Rascal but they are not bad at all and I already compared to D’Addarios. But generally speaking absolutely right.
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I think Fender’s factory rounds are actually made by D’Addario. They seemed fine to me, I never changed them out until I sold the bass.
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The Fender rounds now have the same colored ball system as D’Addario these days. A clue perhaps
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That’s part of the problem, I don’t like D’Addario strings for the most part.
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There’s something about Arturia synths. There is a huge love/hate divide on them on the intarwebz but dang I love that fat, dirty sound. Personally, I’m firmly in the love category…which is a good thing considering.
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Personally, I’ve found that D’Addario strings, for guitar and bass, are consistently good sounding and good playing. Of the inexpensive strings available, D’A ranks at the top with few others.
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Fully agree. Never had any issues with them either.
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Yeah people really don’t have a middle ground with them. I picked it for precisely the reason most of the haters dislike it - I really love the brutish edginess of the thing, especially down low, and the Steiner-Parker filter sounds awesome to me. I am really glad to have it instead of the SEM on their other synths.
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Never understood the difference between a keyboard and a synthesizer, but I love the way that sounds 
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My rough understanding is that “keyboards” is an umbrella term for basically any instrument with a board of keys. However, in practice, more classical instruments (piano, grand piano, organ, cembalo, …) are often taken as their own “group”, while then “keyboards” make up those instrument where the sounds is generated in a more “technical” way, meaning at least a power source is necessary. Initially, this was achieved using some electro-mechanical principles, as in the Mellotron, Wurlitzer, Hammond or Fender Rhodes. A synthesizer, on the other hand, starts with just an oscillating electrical current/voltage and then uses a range of circuitry that modulates, filters, warps, mixes etc such oscillating electrical signals to produce sounds not heard from natural instruments. (Of course, later, synthesizers would try their damnest to emulate the sound and intricacies of natural instrument 
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That’s a good description of analog synthesizers, yeah. There are also digital synthesizers, which generate the sounds in the same way your computer does. And then hybrid synthesizers, which have both analog and digital synthesizer components in the same synth.
And then there’s also the notion that not all synths have keyboards - two of mine don’t.
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Haha, yes, true - but, I thought that might again be a bit confusing…
I have two synth modules to be used with a wind controller - no keyboard required 
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Fun topic!
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Yeah there’s even more distinctions than he goes in to, of course. In general I would say: Synthesizers create sounds from scratch. Samplers play back sounds (and let you modify them, but they are generally sampled, recorded sounds.) Hybrids (many Korgs, etc) do both.
Some have keyboards, some don’t.
Keyboards can be physical instruments like pianos, or controllers with no sound engine, or attached to synths and samplers, or part of complex workstations containing multiple synthesis and sampler engines. Keyboards cover the whole spectrum.
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The rounds the Rascal came with are color coded in brass, red, silver and aqua blue. But I just looked at a bunch of strings I have and the only ones that do not come in colors are Earnie Ball and DR.
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I really want an Aguilar tonehammer head. I have no reason to need a 500 watt amp head, but I really want one. I’m definitely afflicted.
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There is that word again
GAS don’t care about need 
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