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...
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...
The Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 6 Module is a Eurorack-format version of the classic Prophet 6 synthesizer. It features two analog oscillators, two sub-oscillators, a multi-mode filter, four LFOs, two envelopes, and a 16-step sequencer. It also...
The release of MC-505 took place in 1998. Groovebox is based on the same core as the JV series instruments are, and shares a lot with the JV/XP synthesizer lines. MC-505 is designed for aggressive genres of music, like techno, and for this purpose the...
JD-800 is a Roland’s digital synthesizer launched in 1991. The instrument provides 24 voices when one tone is used and reduces the polyphony to 6 notes when 4 tones are active (a patch can include up to 4 tones). The synthesis is based on proprietory...