Shadowed by more famous colleagues, TR-606 strikes back. The release of a miniature box with huge potential took place in 1982. Like its colleagues bathing in fame pool, the drum machine generates its sounds with a simple analog circuit. At first glance,...
Jupiter-4 is a synthesizer launched by Roland in 1978. The monotimbral instrument offers one VCO per voice. The oscillator generates triangle, square, and square with PWM, there’s a sub oscillator included. One LFO produces sine, square and ramp (ramp...
CS-20m is a monophonic synthesizer based on a dual oscillator with subtractive synthesis. There’s a third oscillator producing a sine wave featured in the VCA section which helps to modulate the sound. The instrument has a 37-note keyboard and offers an...
DOMINION 1 combines the advantages of analog synthesis, modular patching and programmability. A 12-operation mode filter has four low pass variations with 6, 12, 18 and 24 dB/oct. slopes, two of high pass-, band pass and notch filter with slopes of 6 and...
Leipzig-S 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...