Micromoog was the company’s attempt to make a small affordable though full-featured synthesizer. The instrument is built on the basis of only one VCO, which can be transposed within five octaves. The basic sawtooth wave can be converted into a square...
Concertmate MG-1 is the most popular Moog, i.e. the most people’s one – you could find it almost in every home or studio. It was produced under the brand Realistic and was sold through a store chain for radio amateurs - Radio Shack. The unit has the...
Solina String Synthesizer is a hybrid of two synthesizers which combined String Ensemble and Explorer in one case. This combination made it possible to create a sufficiently versatile instrument in which Ensemble's polyphonic sound can be combined with...
Explorer I is a small preset monophonic analog synthesizer, a very "close relative" to PRO-Soloist, but has a very important difference - manual mode. The unit contains factory presets: flute, trumpet, clarinet, strings, pulsar and lunar. In the manual...
In 1975 ARP decided to add to the list of their products a portable and (which is important) inexpensive instrument that can satisfy the demands of professional musicians at the same time. The result of the research was Axxe – a monophonic Odyssey. The...
A kind of keyboardless modification of ARP Odyssey, designed to function with a guitar. This is one of the first guitar synthesizers (a guitar-driven synthesizer would be more correct) and one of the greatest failures in the history of ARP. The idea was...
The Swedish company Elektron has an excellent reputation on the drum machine market. The first drum machine Machinedrum got many fans among beat-makers and musicians. The latest model Machinedrum SPS-1 UW mk2, released in 2008, is a micro-evolution of...
It is a rackmount version of Prophet VS synthesizer (it differs only in the absence of a keyboard and pitch/modulation wheels).
Prophet VS is the first synthesizer which applies vector synthesis method. Unfortunately, Prophet VS was produced only a few months before Sequential Circuits ceased its operating in 1987. Later (in 1990), this method was used by Dave Smith in Korg...
Another masterpiece made by Dave Smith and John Bowen. The first synthesizer on the market featuring MIDI support. Prophet-600 is an analog synthesizer with microprocessor control, has 6-voice polyphony. Each voice contains two voltage controlled...
