D-70 is a 30-voice polyphonic synthesizer developed to be a stronger competitor on the market where Korg M1 became a hit. It was devised to be a successor of D-50/550 but actually represents an upgraded U-20 with which it has more in common. The...
The sound of this synthesizer of Roland Boutique series is emulated applying the ACB technology - Analog Circuit Behavior, i.e. it differs significantly from the original device (TB-303), in contrast to the modern copies of old Roland drum machines...
The Yamaha S80 is a digital synthesizer workstation released by Yamaha in 1998. It features a 76-key weighted keyboard, 16-track sequencer, 16-part multitimbrality, and a wide range of sounds and effects. The S80 is capable of producing a variety of...
Roland RD-800 is the perfect stage piano – the leader of RD-series stage pianos. The instrument is equipped with advanced mechanics of the latest generation PHA-4 Concert with Escapement function. Keys have an anti-slip coating imitating ivory and ebony....
Shadowed by more famous colleagues, TR-606 strikes back. The release of a miniature box with huge potential took place in 1982. Like its colleagues bathing in fame pool, the drum machine generates its sounds with a simple analog circuit. At first glance,...
Dave Smith’s 5-octave semi-weighted keyboard with velocity and channel aftertouch features 16 voices of polyphony, dual DCOs, integrates a 2-/4-pole resonant low-pass Curtis filter, offers waveshape modulation, bi-timbral operation, built-in effects...
The successor of Matrix series, however, has a feature that strongly distinguishes Matrix-6 from its predecessors: the synthesizer's voices use digitally controlled oscillators (DCO). To build the voices Oberhiem used a specialized chip CEM3396 which...
The Yamaha CS2x is a synthesizer released by Yamaha in 1997. It is a part of the CS series of synthesizers, which includes the CS1x, CS6x, and CS6R. The CS2x is a 61-key synthesizer with a wide range of sounds and features, including an onboard...
LinnDrum, or LM-2, went into production in 1982. LM-2 is an updated version of the LM-1, with added crash samples and cymbal rides. Unlike Roland TR series, the drum machine used 28-35 kHz samples of real acoustic drums. Thus, LinnDrum appeared to be a...
This synthesizer has no competitors in its class. It is not cheap, but it is a super synthesizer, only John Bowen’s Solaris or Sequential Prophet X are capable of comparing with it. In any case, this is a bid for leadership for the next decade. In short,...
