View Specs on Popular Electronic Musical Instruments

Yamaha Motif 8 Music Productions Synthesizer 

By David Battino

The dream is tantalizing: a single keyboard that can handle all your music-production needs, providing great sounds and effects and an intuitive sequencer...

Oxford Synthesizer Company OSCar - History and Price Guide 

By Julian Colbeck

Produced: 1983-86Made in: EnglandDesigned by: Chris HuggettNumber produced: 1,800System: analog/digital hybrid, subtractive and additive synthesisPrice...

Wiard 300-Series Modular System 

By Robert Rich

A new generation of analog modular synthesizers has quietly come of age. Such instruments update the best of vintage designs by offering modern circuitry...

Alesis Andromeda A6 Analog Synthesizer 

By Peter Freeman

Occasionally, a musical-instrument manufacturer introduces a product that marks a real departure from its usual fare, an instrument that elevates the...

Clavia Nord Lead 3 

By Greg Negoescu

In 1995 an obscure Swedish company named Clavia breathed new life into a traditional synthesizer form with the introduction of its Nord Lead synthesizer....

Fender Rhodes Stage Piano Mark I - History and Price Guide 

By Julian Colbeck

Produced: 1970-79Made in: United StatesDesigned by: Harold RhodesNumber produced: more than 100,000System: hammer action, electric pickupsPrice new: $500-$1,800...

Moog Music Prodigy 

By Julian Colbeck

Because Moog Music created the Prodigy without any assistance from the company's namesake and founder, Robert Moog, the Prodigy inspires heated debate about the legitimacy of its pedigree....

Analogue Systems Sorcerer Review 

By Julian Colbeck

Modular analog synthesis is alive and well in the 21st century. There was a time when a synthesizer was a collection of modules filled with dozens of...

KORG KARMA 

By David Battino

Korg has tripled the Triton's CPU power but left the proven audio engine, devoting the additional mojo to a sophisticated MIDI processor that redefines how the synth interacts with its player....

KORG CX-3 

By Julian Colbeck

The Hammond players I know fall into two categories. One group likes to discuss the number of notches on a tonewheel and which organs came with a bench...

TAMING THE TRITON 

By Clark Salisbury

Korg's Triton synthesizers are among the most powerful music workstations ever made. Harness their power with these special programming tips and tricks....

Korg M1 

By Julian Colbeck

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Banging Out the Bits 

By Gino Robair

There are plenty of reasons why musicians use MIDI percussion controllers. Some use them to record natural-sounding drum patterns into a sequencer. Others...

OBERHEIM OB-12 

By Geary Yelton

It's easier to be spontaneous when all you have to do is press a couple of buttons and go. From the mid-1970s until the early 90s, Oberheim was one of...

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW 

Gino Robair

Analog modular synthesizers are better than ever....

YAMAHA FS1R 

Julian Colbeck

The sounds are vastly complex and produced, and the unit's humanistic formant-shaping-synthesis technology is fascinating and different. Dig beneath the...