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Short Synth History Lesson: The Moog Modular

Introduction The Moog Modular synthesizer was the first commercially available synthesizer, designed and built by Dr. Robert Moog starting in…

Introduction The Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer, featuring digital sampling and sequencing, released in 1999[1]. It uses Korg’s…

Introduction The Roland Juno-106 is a 6-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer released in 1984. It was an upgraded version of the…

Introduction The Yamaha S90XS and S70XS are digital synthesizers and music workstations that were introduced in 2009. These instruments were…

Introduction The Kurzweil K2000 is a digital synthesizer and music workstation that was produced by Kurzweil Music Systems between 1991…

Introduction The Sequential Prophet-5 is a 5-voice analog polyphonic synthesizer first introduced in 1978 by Sequential Circuits[14]. It was one…

Introduction The Yamaha Motif is a series of music workstation synthesizers, first released by Yamaha Corporation in August 2001[6]. The…

Introduction The Korg M1 is a synthesizer and music workstation manufactured by Korg from 1988 to 1995[6]. It is one…

Introduction The Roland D-50 is a synthesizer produced by Roland and released in April 1987[13]. It quickly became the most…

Introduction and FM Synthesis The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989. It…