Also went to the King's Day flea markets, skipped a Thrust vintage joystick and various older (but very common) hardware, and then, just as I was starting to wonder whether there was anything really interesting, I walked past a stall that had a Roland keyboard sitting there. Glanced at it, thought "Nah, can't be for sale, probably the kids will start playing on it later", walked on, then went back and still asked "That keyboard probably isn't for sale, right?".
Result: 1 working Roland JV-35 Expandable Synthesizer with power supply for 40 Euro... talk about a score. 😎
The JV-35 is something of a Super Sound Canvas:
- GM/GS-compatible sound set using the JV-80 synth engine and a 61-key velocity-sensitive keybed with aftertouch,
- limited edit from the synth itself but many more parameters via sysex,
- quite nice master keyboard setup options (such as keyboard split, dual mode, fattening up the sound by layering octave-shifted sounds, etc.),
- plus an expansion slot on the bottom for one expansion board, with choice of doubling the GM/GS capacities for extra fat sound, or gaining the JV-80/90/1000 sound set and parameter edit(!), depending on the expansion board used. I've ordered the second expansion board now, too. 😀
Getting the thing back home by bike was somewhat of a pain though. 😵
So, in 2017 I got a 1980s Yamaha PSR. 2019 brings me a semi-pro synth. 2021 = ???