Stage 3 88 is a digital stage 88-key fully weighted hammer action keyboard with piano, organ, and synth sound engines with 2 integrated OLED displays for Program and Synth sections providing clear functionality control. Patch change is smooth due to...
Nord C2D is a powerful instrument reproducing B3 tone wheel organ, Vox and Farfisa transistor organs as well as a sampled baroque pipe organ and providing you with two sets of physical drawbars per manual (dual manual, 61-note waterfall keyboard with...
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...
Presented in 1980 by the Japanese manufacturer Roland TR-808 rhythm machine actually seemed to be, doomed to failure at the very beginning of its journey. It was the main competitor to the so much superior LM-1 Drum Computer on the market. Compared to...
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...
For many, drum machines were those boxes stuffed with "rattling", "booming" kick sounds from TR-808, or thick TR-909 snares. They were very popular in hip-hop and dance music, and completely changed our perception of drum machine sounds. But before all...
Drum Machine BOSS DR-202 Dr. Groove was released in 2000. Like the rest of the "DR" series, the rhythm machine has very portable dimensions. It includes 207 types of drums and 49 basses, regrouped into 128 sets to create music in styles: hip-hop,...
X4 by Ketron was released in the early 2000s along with the rest of the X series. Compared to X1, the device was offered to users at a reduced price, as it lacked a keyboard, modulation wheels, speakers, but had a more elaborate central panel. Anyway, X4...
Ketron X1 Oriental retains all the same features X1 offers, except for the approach to styles. X1 Oriental is suitable for those who prefer or needs a more oriental atmosphere. It has a 61-note weighted keyboard with aftertouch and a 64-note polyphony....
Ketron X8 became the most distinguished product of the X series, owing not so much to internal capabilities, but to the keyboard. Unlike other models of this line, XD8 has a chromatic keyboard: the right zone is limited with 52 keys, and the left one –...
