The Synton Syrinx is a monophonic analog synthesizer produced by the Dutch company Synton in the late 1970s. It is a two-oscillator synthesizer with a built-in sequencer and arpeggiator. It is capable of producing a wide range of sounds, from bass and lead lines to pads and strings.
Multimoog is an expanded version of Micromoog. There are not so many differences from its younger brother but they are very significant. The older model received an additional voltage controlled oscillator which allowed receiving character detuned basses...
Solus is an instrument aimed at touring musicians, for situations where every centimeter is important, and a rigid case must protect the content reliably. The synthesizer is assembled in a wooden housing with a convenient handle for transportation. The...
This small analog monophonic synthesizer strongly influenced the sound of pop music of the 1980s. The main feature that explains the popularity of OB-1 - the ability to save settings in one of eight presets. All functional blocks are built on discrete...
DOMINION 1 combines the advantages of analog synthesis, modular patching and programmability. A 12-operation mode filter has four low pass variations with 6, 12, 18 and 24 dB/oct. slopes, two of high pass-, band pass and notch filter with slopes of 6 and...
Leipzig-SK is a synthesizer with no memory integrated. There’s no parameter quantization – a tweak of a knob adjusts the actual analog circuit behavior directly. There is no proper CPU control over parameters which allows for achieving peculiar analog...
The Crumar Trilogy is a series of three synthesizers produced by the Italian company Crumar in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The series consists of the Crumar DS-2, the Crumar Performer, and the Crumar Spirit. The DS-2 and Performer are dual-oscillator...
The idea of creating a universal synthesizer - the first attempt was Solina String Synthesizer - didn’t leave the developers of ARP. The new incarnation was Omni, which operated as three independent synthesizers simultaneously. For the user quite few...
In 1977 ARP released a new version of its most successful synthesizer - the Omni Mk2 - on the synthesizer market. Inside the synthesizer, everything remained almost unchanged, but outside it got a new branded color scheme "orange + black" and a...
The Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus (mk2) is a classic analog vocoder and string synthesizer from the late 1970s. It is a combination of a vocoder, string synthesizer, and a human voice synthesizer. It has a unique sound that has been used in many popular...
