The Roland Alpha Juno 1, introduced in 1985, is an analog polyphonic synthesizer. Produced until 1987, it was priced at US$895/ UK£575. It uses soft touch buttons and a single dial for programming, but the optional Roland PG-300 programmer made every...
Minimoog Model D may be the most classic and never-fading or by no means ever outdated analog synthesizer. This is the first synthesizer, which could be called portable, which allowed a musician to put it to good use not only in the studio, but also on...
This is probably the most legendary and most popular synthesizer of all time. While the algorithms of the sound engines were changing getting more complicated, amazing VST and AU instruments appeared - Minimoog remained a must have device. And every...
This small analog monophonic synthesizer strongly influenced the sound of pop music of the 1980s. The main feature that explains the popularity of OB-1 - the ability to save settings in one of eight presets. All functional blocks are built on discrete...
In 1978, Sequential Circuits company released Prophet-5, which immediately became incredibly popular due to the ability to save all the parameters of the synthesizer in the presets. Tom Oberheim responded with OB-X. The synthesizer has a hybrid...