The Casio VZ-1 is a synthesizer keyboard released by Casio in 1988. It is a digital synthesizer with a built-in sequencer and 8-voice polyphony. It features a variety of sounds and effects, including a vocoder. It was one of the first synthesizers to...
Technos Acxel was launched in 1987 in Quebec, Canada, and immediately attracted attention with its unusual concept. Pierre Guillaume was responsible for the development and Neil Parent – for the design. The concept was really amazing and progressive, and...
Roland MC-303 was released in 1996, and is the first groovebox in the series. It embraces a combination of synth timbres, drum machine samples and a built-in sequencer. Its synth part is represented with a rompler which stores a wide range of sounds...
In the 70s Tom Oberheim became famous as a talented inventor of guitar effects. Its ring modulator and phase shifter, produced under the Maestro brand, were real bestsellers. At the same time, Tom was the official dealer of ARP synthesizers in Los...
Moog Music was among of the brands which mastered the new synthesizer format intrinsic to the rock era. Keytar allowed the keyboardists to move around the stage as easily as guitar players did. To reduce the weight on the shoulders of the "keytarists",...
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...
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...
Prophet 5 is a legend that can surely be added to the list of "top 5 analog synthesizers of all time". Prophet-5 became the most popular professional synthesizer of the late 1970s - early 1980s, and largely influenced the sound of pop music of that...
