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SynthesizerA Synthesizer in Freebase is a particular model of synthesizer (or synthesiser), an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound.Property Brand: expects Musical instrument company; the manufacturer of...
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| Minimoog |
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The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by David van Koevering and Robert Moog. Released in 1970 by the original Moog Music, it was among the first widely available, portable and relatively affordable synthesizers.
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| Yamaha DX7 |
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The Yamaha DX7 was a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1986, based on FM synthesis developed by John Chowning. It was the first commercially successful digital synthesizer, with its sound included in many recordings...
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| Korg M1 |
The Korg M1 was the world's first widely-known music workstation. Its onboard MIDI sequencer and palette of sounds allowed musicians to produce complete professional arrangements. Outselling the Yamaha DX7 and Roland D-50, the M1 became the best...
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| Roland SH-101 |
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Roland SH-101 is a synthesizer from the early 1980's, manufactured by Roland. It is a small, 32 key, monophonic analog synthesizer. It features one oscillator with two waveforms, an 'octave-divided' sub-oscillator, and a low-pass filter/VCF capable...
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| Roland JX-3P |
The Roland JX-3P emerged in 1983 as the first MIDI-capable synth produced by Roland. Its architecture is more advanced than the Juno series synths produced around the same time. Both machines use the same interval-timer DCO technology and use the...
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| Roland Jupiter-6 |
The Roland Jupiter-6 (JP-6) is a synthesizer manufactured by the Roland Corporation introduced in 1983 as a less expensive alternative to the Roland Jupiter-8. The Jupiter-6 is widely considered a workhorse among polyphonic analog synthesizers,...
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| Roland SH-1000 |
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The Roland SH-1000, introduced in 1973, was the first compact synthesizer produced in Japan. It resembles a home organ more than a commercial synth, with colorful sliders and simple functions, yet it produced decent bass and lead sounds that many...
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| Moog Taurus |
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The Moog Taurus bass pedal keyboard is a foot-operated analog synthesizer created and manufactured by Moog Music from 1976 to 1981. Commonly called the Taurus I, it has a 13 note organ-style pedal board similar to the pedals of a spinet organ.
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| Yamaha SHS-10 |
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The Yamaha SHS-10 is a keytar (a musical keyboard that can be held like a guitar) manufactured by Yamaha and released in the late 1980s.
It has a small-sized keyboard with 32 minikeys and a pitch-bend wheel, an internal Frequency modulation ...
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| Ensoniq ESQ-1 |
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Ensoniq ESQ-1 is a hybrid digital-analog synthesizer released by Ensoniq in 1986. The ESQ-1 featured 8 voices with 3 digital oscillators per voice. Each oscillator could be set to 1 of 32 different waveforms. Some of these were standard simple...
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| Yamaha CS-80 |
The Yamaha CS-80 was a polyphonic analog synthesizer released in 1977. It sported true 8-voice polyphony (with two independent synthesizer layers per voice) as well as a primitive (sound) settings memory based on a bank of micropotentiometers ...
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| Korg Poly-800 |
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The Korg Poly-800 is a synthesizer released by Korg in 1983. Its initial list price of $795 made it the first fully programmable synthesizer that sold for less than $1000. It featured a 49 key non-velocity sensitive keyboard, two buttons for data...
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| Roland Jupiter-8 |
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The Jupiter-8, Roland's flagship analog synthesizer of the early 1980s is an eight-voice polyphonic synth and is considered one of the greatest synths of all time.
The Jupiter-8, introduced in the Autumn of 1981, features analog slider controls for...
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| Roland JP-8000 |
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The Roland JP-8000 is an analog modeling synthesizer released by the Roland Corporation in 1997.
The JP-8000 was released in early 1997 to compete with many other analog modeling synthesizers of the period such as the Access Virus and Clavia Nord...
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| ARP Odyssey |
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The ARP Odyssey was an analog synthesizer introduced in 1972. Responding to pressure from Moog Music to create a portable, affordable (the Minimoog was US$1,495 upon release) "performance" synthesizer, ARP scaled down its popular 2600 synthesizer...
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| Korg OASYS |
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The Korg OASYS is a workstation synthesizer released in early 2005, 1 year after the successful Korg Triton Extreme. Unlike the Triton series, the Oasys is implemented on a custom Linux operating system and is designed to be arbitrarily expandable...
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| Roland MC-202 |
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The Roland MC-202 (MicroComposer) is a monophonic analog synthesizer/sequencer released by Roland in 1983. It is similar to the TB-303 and SH-101 synthesizers, featuring one voltage-controlled oscillator with simultaneous saw and square/pulse-width...
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| Moog Rogue |
The Moog Rogue is a monophonic analog synthesizer produced by the original Moog Music in the early 1980s, but, was not designed by Bob Moog. Very basic in its design and use, the Rogue featured a 32-note keyboard and two VCO. VCO number 2 is tunable...
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| Oberheim OB-X |
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The Oberheim OB-X is an analog polyphonic synthesizer. It was the first Oberheim synthesizer that was created with internal prewired modules and not with the bulky SEM modules. Because of this, it was more functional for live performance, not to...
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| ARP 2600 |
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The ARP 2600 is a semi-modular analog subtractive audio synthesizer, designed by Alan R. Pearlman and manufactured by his company, ARP Instruments, Inc. Unlike other modular systems of the time, which required modules to be purchased individually...
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| ARP Chroma |
The ARP Chroma was eventually released by Fender as the Rhodes Chroma & was one of the early microprocessor-based Analog synthesizers. It was the first commercial synth with a touch-sensitive keyboard, using 64 weighted wooden keys; some units also...
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| Moog Concertmate MG-1 |
The Moog Concertmate MG-1 is an analog synthesizer made by Moog Music and was distributed by Radio Shack under their "Realistic" brand name. The MG-1, on its surface, appears to be a "Realistic" branded synth, but it is, for all intents and purposes...
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| Korg KARMA |
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The Korg KARMA music workstation was released in 2001 as a specialised member of the Korg Triton family.
Unlike most other Korg workstation names, the KARMA name is rendered in capitals as an acronym for the Kay Algorithmic Realtime Music...
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| Roland Jupiter-4 |
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The Roland Jupiter 4 was an analog synthesizer manufactured by the Roland Corporation of Japan between 1978 and 1981. It was notable as the company's first self-contained polyphonic synthesizer, and for containing digital control of analog circuits ...
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| Yamaha GX1 |
The Yamaha GX-1, along with its predecessor, the Electone GX-707, was an analog polyphonic synthesizer developed by Yamaha as a test bed for later consumer synths. The GX-1 had two full-sized velocity-sensitive manuals (5-octave 61-note keyboards),...
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| Yamaha TX81Z |
The Yamaha TX81Z is a rack-mounted (keyboard-less) frequency modulation music synthesizer, which was released in 1986. Unlike previous FM synthesizers of the era, the TX81Z was the first to employ oscillator waveforms other than the sine, giving it...
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| Multimoog |
The Multimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured by Moog Music from 1978 to 1981. Derived from the earlier Micromoog (internally, it consists of a stock Micromoog circuit board with the extra circuitry on a second board), the Multimoog...
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| Korg MS-20 |
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The Korg MS-20 is a patchable semi-modular monophonic synthesizer which Korg released in 1978 and was in production until 1983. It was part of Korg's MS series of instruments, which also included the single oscillator MS-10, the keyboardless MS-50...
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| Roland Juno-106 |
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The Roland Juno-106 was a hybrid digital/analogue polyphonic synth manufactured by Roland Corporation in 1984. It featured digitally-controlled oscillators (DCOs) for tuning stability and digital envelope generation along with analog filters, for...
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| Korg O1w |
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The Korg O1/W was Korg's new workstation meant to replace the Korg M1 and T series in 1991. The workstation/ROMpler was based on an improved version of the AI(Advanced Integrated) Synthesis technology found in the M1, and was called AI. The...
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