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Sunday, March 29, 2009

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

By Dean Hunt

Let's work backwards in time to take a look at the most 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 known. These're the Roland workstation series of semi synths. It all began with the JV-80 and 90. And then progressed onto the JV 1080 and JV 2080. What these produced were awesome in regards to exceedingly exact and totally believable genuine instrument samples. It proved to be a brilliant money saver for musicians. No longer did they require to count on real instruments. They were paced with expansion selections and polyphony so the JV series worked it's way into the XV series that you see on the market nowadays.

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.

Several of you will be very familiar with the Roland D-50 from 1987, as it is still used nowadays. It has lots of polyphony and could be heard on a couple of the records of the 1980/90s. The new LA synthesis architecture never become a favourite item, but it fit in well with the eight bit form of PCM sampling. It allowed for peculiar sounds that had never been known before.

In 1984, hope surfaced for those devotees of synthesizers that can just not afford to be required in the past. This's brought about because of the Roland Juno-106. It permitted hybrid DCO based synthesis technology to be utilized by musicians who had never had the opportunity in the past. It is limited to a single filter and oscillator, it had an outstanding chorus effect and sounds from the 80s that made it into a truly known item. - 18418

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