The Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver Rack represents Dave Smith's triumphant return to hardware synthesizers and stands as a benchmark for sonic ferocity. This rack-mounted powerhouse is essentially four complete Evolvers in a single rack space,...
The Crumar Bit One, introduced in 1984, is a six-voice programmable touch-sensitive synthesizer that represents a compelling entry in the mid-1980s affordable polyphonic synthesizer market. As a hybrid digital/analog instrument, it combines digitally...
The Roland Alpha Juno series, introduced in 1985, includes two analog polyphonic synthesizers: Alpha Juno 1 and 2. Produced until 1987, they were priced at US$895/ UK£575 for the Alpha JunoJ-1 and US$1,295/ UK£799 for the Alpha Juno-2. They share the...
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 Korg MS2000B is a virtual analog synthesizer and vocoder released by Korg in 2003. It is a rack-mountable version of the Korg MS2000, and features two oscillators, two filters, two envelope generators, two LFOs, and a vocoder. It also has a built-in...