The Clavia Nord Grand is a digital piano designed and manufactured by Clavia, a Swedish company specializing in electronic instruments. It is a fully-weighted 88-key digital piano with a wooden keybed, advanced sound engine, and a range of features...
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 Casio AZ-1 is a strap-on remote keyboard controller designed for keyboard players who want to join their bandmates at the front of the stage. Unlike traditional master keyboards, this guitar-inspired controller is meant to be slung around the neck,...