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...
Leipzig-SK is a synthesizer with no memory integrated. There’s no parameter quantization – a tweak of a knob adjusts the actual analog circuit behavior directly. There is no proper CPU control over parameters which allows for achieving peculiar analog...
The idea of creating a universal synthesizer - the first attempt was Solina String Synthesizer - didn’t leave the developers of ARP. The new incarnation was Omni, which operated as three independent synthesizers simultaneously. For the user quite few...
In 1977 ARP released a new version of its most successful synthesizer - the Omni Mk2 - on the synthesizer market. Inside the synthesizer, everything remained almost unchanged, but outside it got a new branded color scheme "orange + black" and a...
The Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus (mk2) is a classic analog vocoder and string synthesizer from the late 1970s. It is a combination of a vocoder, string synthesizer, and a human voice synthesizer. It has a unique sound that has been used in many popular...