The legendary Roland company, together with Serato, joined their efforts to reincarnate the drum machines of the TR series into a DJ controller called DJ-808. Young LY, CEO of Serato brand, said that DJ-808 fits perfectly for any purpose: production,...
TANZMAUS was released in 2016, along with TANZBÄR LITE. The instrument served as a reboot of MFB 503 and 522. TANZMAUS, as well as its brother "LITE", was developed under euphoria brought by the legendary TR-808 and 909, but anyway there was some...
The Rickenbacker 4003 is a popular electric bass guitar made by Rickenbacker. It has a distinctive ringing tone, due to its construction with a neck-through-body design, a solid maple body and neck, and two single-coil pickups. It is also known for its distinctive headstock shape and triangular inlays.
AX-7 is a Roland’s 45-note velocity sensitive keytar launched in 2001 and features more functions than its predecessor AX-1. Later it would be discontinued to give way to Roland’s AX-Synth. The device still functions as a MIDI controller sending MIDI...
The Swedish company Elektron, known for its high-quality drum machines and synthesizers, said that sampling is a dying art. Therefore, in 2011, the manufacturer released Octatrack DPS-1, which is an 8-track dynamic performance sampler and sequencer 2 in...
Roland TR-626 became one of the very first full-digital drum machines which are based on compressed PCM samples – it also the latest unit of the famous TR series. It is an updated digital version of the classic TR-606 and TR-505. The design is very...
The Kurzweil K2000 is a professional-level synthesizer and digital workstation released in 1992. It was designed by Ray Kurzweil and was one of the first digital synthesizers to use samples and synthesis together in a single instrument. It featured a...
Andromeda A6 is a 61-note velocity sensitive keyboard with aftertouch. The 16-note polyphonic synthesizer comprises 2 oscillators per voice, includes sub oscillators, generates 5 waveforms among which there are sine, triangle, square, up saw, down saw...
In 1985 at the music fair in Milan Prophet 2000 was introduced - the first sampler made by SCI. Compared to its predecessors (E-mu Emulator and Ensoniq Mirage), the synthesizer got the sample rate almost twice bigger (12 bits versus 8) and offered quite...
The digital piano RD-700 was the first instrument of the series sporting the possibility of expansion cards use, thereby it quickly gained success on the music market. The model included high-quality piano samples, as well as instrument sounds, taken...
