Concertmate MG-1 is the most popular Moog, i.e. the most people’s one – you could find it almost in every home or studio. It was produced under the brand Realistic and was sold through a store chain for radio amateurs - Radio Shack. The unit has the...
Solina String Synthesizer is a hybrid of two synthesizers which combined String Ensemble and Explorer in one case. This combination made it possible to create a sufficiently versatile instrument in which Ensemble's polyphonic sound can be combined with...
Pro/DGX is the third generation of Soloist synthesizers. Almost the same as Pro-Soloist, although it got a brighter face and the preset switches were replaced with buttons. The main difference from previous versions is in the filter section. The first...
Pro-Soloist was introduced in 1972 as an improved replacement for ARP Soloist, later (in 1977) it was replaced by Pro-DGX. The purpose of the instrument has remained unchanged: it must complement the main polyphonic synthesizer to create solo parts. The...
The expansion module, designed to function together with the "older brothers". It doesn’t have its own keyboard, VCF, VCA, on board - only one VCO and LFO. According to the manufacturer's idea, this module should be integrated with, for example, ARP Axxe...
Explorer I is a small preset monophonic analog synthesizer, a very "close relative" to PRO-Soloist, but has a very important difference - manual mode. The unit contains factory presets: flute, trumpet, clarinet, strings, pulsar and lunar. In the manual...
In 1975 ARP decided to add to the list of their products a portable and (which is important) inexpensive instrument that can satisfy the demands of professional musicians at the same time. The result of the research was Axxe – a monophonic Odyssey. The...
A kind of keyboardless modification of ARP Odyssey, designed to function with a guitar. This is one of the first guitar synthesizers (a guitar-driven synthesizer would be more correct) and one of the greatest failures in the history of ARP. The idea was...
The four-channel controller NS7III made by Numark company was released in 2015. A small "flashback": NS7 was the first digital controller of the series to have 2 decks, a mixer, motorized platters made in the Technics style, and a minimal set of...
The first commercial synthesizer by Beringer, and the first try appears to be a success. The company and its creator Uli Beringer were approaching this making step by step of hard work, and the result is impressive - a full-featured polyphonic...
