Way back in the 1970's my brother got interested in synthesizers. He had a couple Moogs and would spend hours working on Emerson, Lake and Palmer tunes or just making blips and bleeps on his keyboards. Synths looked like great fun to me but they were very expensive. The Korg MS 10 and MS 20 were two synthesizers introduced in the late '70's that could produce a variety of monophonic sounds. The Korg DS is a Nintendo game cartridge that combines two virtual Korg MS 10 synths with a small drum sequencer. The program allows you to create music, store it in patterns and even store the patterns into songs. The cartridge's street price is around $35 and it is the most economical way I know of to get into analogue synth sounds. I enjoy using Korg DS with another Nintendo DS game called Eletroplankton; a DS program that creates all types of ambient sounds. Add a small four track recorder, and you can make your own masterpiece in no time. Great fun! AQ Interactive produces Korg DS 10 and has a nice website that demos some of what this virtual synth can do; http://www.aqi.co.jp/product/ds10/en/index.html
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