The Dave Smith Instruments Tetra is a four-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer. It features four analog voices with two oscillators per voice, two sub-octave generators, two low-pass filters, two envelope generators, and a modulation matrix. It also has...
The Dave Smith Instruments Evolver is a polyphonic analog synthesizer designed by Dave Smith and released in 2002. It features two analog oscillators, two digital oscillators, four analog filters, four envelope generators, four LFOs, and a 16-voice...
The Dave Smith Instruments OB-6 Module is a six-voice analog synthesizer module. It is the first collaboration between Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim, two of the most iconic names in synthesizer history. The OB-6 Module features two voltage-controlled...
The Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 Desktop Module is a powerful and versatile synthesizer module designed to provide musicians with a wide range of sound-shaping capabilities. It features 12 voices of polyphony, 4 oscillators per voice, a 4-pole...
Legendary designers of electronic instruments Dave Smith and Roger Linn teamed up to create a drum machine called Tempest – quite a loud name today. In the process, both enthusiasts of synth making had separate responsibilities: Linn was busy with a...
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...
If TR-808 was the "rhythm" godfather of hip-hop and electro music, then TR-909 meant the same for techno and house music. TR-909 was released 3 years after its predecessor, which offers an partially analog and kind of a hybrid sound generation. After a...
Like all the devices of Roland Boutique series (JP-08, JX-03, JU-06), VP-03 vocoder uses ACB (Advanced Circuit Behavior) technology to recreate the waveform generation processes in an analog synthesizer to ultimately achieve sound waves approximate in...
The budget digital drum machine Roland TR-505 was released in 1986. It is a simplified version of the classic TR-626. The interface has a monochrome display, 15 buttons for pattern settings, 2 knobs for volume and tempo change, and 16 pads with different...
Roland TR-727, released in 1985, acts as a true follower of TR-707. Their interface doesn’t differ, but the main differences are in samples – TR-727 offers the library of Latin percussion. Ethnic percussion has won its place under the sun in modern dance...
