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...
EOS B2000 is an extremely rare synthesizer which embraces the functionality of a workstation and an arranger. It used to be produced for the domestic market of Japan, although all the inscriptions on the housing and the display information are in...
Roland TR-626 became one of the very first full-digital drum machines which are based on compressed PCM samples – it also the latest unit of the famous TR series. It is an updated digital version of the classic TR-606 and TR-505. The design is very...
If TR-808 was the "rhythm" godfather of hip-hop and electro music, then TR-909 meant the same for techno and house music. TR-909 was released 3 years after its predecessor, which offers an partially analog and kind of a hybrid sound generation. After a...
Like all the devices of Roland Boutique series (JP-08, JX-03, JU-06), VP-03 vocoder uses ACB (Advanced Circuit Behavior) technology to recreate the waveform generation processes in an analog synthesizer to ultimately achieve sound waves approximate in...