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 legendary LM-1 Drum Computer by Roger Linn became the first digital drum machine capable of reproducing samples of real drums. Its excellent sound helped to revise and change the music of the 80's. The LM-1 is the first digital drum machine to...
