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The Roland Promars MRS-2 is a vintage analog synthesizer released by Roland in 1979. It features two oscillators, a low-pass filter, and a voltage-controlled amplifier (VCA). The Promars is capable of producing a wide range of sounds, from bass and lead...
Moog positioned Prodigy as an "entry-level synthesizer", the instrument was devised to familiarize newcomers with the world of synthesizers. But the history makes it obvious that this synthesizer is not only a toy, but also a device that in many ways...
Polivoks is a fully analog synthesizer with unique circuitry and components which contribute a lot to the unique sound of this instrument. Synthesizer Polivoks is honestly a two-voice instrument - each of the two voltage controlled oscillators (VCO) is...
In the early 80's all serious synthesizer manufacturers had to try hard to stay on the market after the release of the Prophet-5 synthesizer. The first attempt to grab his bite of the niche was made by Oberheim when he launched OB-X synthesizer, the...
In 1978, Sequential Circuits company released Prophet-5, which immediately became incredibly popular due to the ability to save all the parameters of the synthesizer in the presets. Tom Oberheim responded with OB-X. The synthesizer has a hybrid...
OB-SX is the cheaper and lighter version of OB-X. Just like its "big brother" it was based on a modular system and was produced with two, four or six voice cards. But the cards are not interchangeable/not compatible with OB-X. Each voice card has: Two...
The synthesizer module, designed by Donald Buchla (Tom Oberheim did not participate in the development) to recreate the sound of two legendary families of synthesizers - Moog and Oberheim. The name is the abbreviation of Oberheim-Moog. Ob-Mx is based on...
OB-8 is the last representative of the classic OB series – it’s an improved version of the OB-Xa synthesizer. OB-8, as well as the whole series of vintage OBs, is built on using voice cards, but unlike its predecessors it was produced with a fixed number...
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...
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...
