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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Revealed: A Guide To Vintage Synths and Synthesizers From 1970s

By Dean Hunt

Lets work backwards in time to take a look at the most well-known synths to ever hit the market.

A couple of individuals wanted those spectacular sounds of the 1970 and 1980s back. The problem was the price involved to buy and preserve those old machines. Then luckily in 1995 along came the Access Virus. It consisted of a good deal of patch storage, effects and a vocoder. This really was a new digital based virtual based analogue synthesiser.

Even though first introduced in 1992 the Roland JV series came to be acknowledged. These're the Roland workstation series of semi synths. It all started with the JV-80 and 90. Then progressed onto the JV 1080 and JV 2080. What these developed were astounding in regards to highly accurate and completely believable genuine instrument samples. It tested to be an excellent money-saver for musicians. No longer did they require to count on real instruments. Theyre paced with expansion options and polyphony so the JV series worked its way into the XV series that you see on the market now.

The most well sold synth known in the history was the Korg M1 in 1988. This unusual synth was a semi workstation synth. The price, sound and look of it shows how much effort the producer put in. As a great traditional subtractive synthesiser sound, the A1 synthesis technique made this possible. When you blend this with the sixteen voice polyphony and the numerous built in effects and sequencer, you had it all. There is no questions as to why this synth was so popular.

Some of you will be very familiar with the Roland D-50 from 1987, as it is still used now. It has plenty of polyphony and can be heard on numerous of the records of the 1980/90s. The new LA synthesis architecture never became a well-known item, but it fit in well with the eight bit form of PCM sampling. It provided for special sounds that had never been known before.

In 1984, hope rose for those fans of synthesizers that could just not afford to be involved in the past. This's brought about because of the Roland Juno-106. It permitted hybrid DCO based synthesis technology to be practiced by musicians who had never had the chance in the past. It's limited to a single filter and oscillator, it had an supreme chorus effect and sounds from the 80s that made it into a very well-known item. - 18762

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