Great Synthesizers is an online magazin with reviews, pictures, documents and soundfiles of analogue and digital synthesizers & related music gear
The Roland JD-XA is a wonderful sounding instrument, but it comes with a couple of surprises. One is the plastic surface. It reflects extremely strongly and maintains its shiny newness… Read More
No praises, no notes, no descriptions, no scores. Simply pictures, that’s it. Impressions of modern and vintage synthesizers. From the Schmidt synthesizer back to Moog System 55, from Korg /… Read More
The Grenadier is a semi modular CV-Gate synthesizer with analog sequencer and filterbank. A 1-VCO analog synth without MIDI, but with a 14 patch points field and a straightforward knob-per-function… Read More
The Minimoog – a true legend. A legend that’s often a little out of tune, to be exact. This may be caused by the VCOs (responsible, admittedly, for that characteristic… Read More
Well, to be honest: one reason we love JM Jarre’s new vinyl disc is the synth picture on its cover. The photo shows a GRP A4 (beautiful!) and on the… Read More
In the years to come, our age will be known as the “Tablet” era. [Like: Baroque – Classic – Romantic – 20. Century – Tablet]. Bouncy, sassy, slightly tinny music… Read More
The nw1 is a stunning synth module for eurorack modular systems. Its special visual characteristic is – of course – the red Waldorf nose … sorry, data wheel. nw1 is… Read More
As we saw in part one of our report, there is a significant amount of sound potential in Ernst Krenek’s Buchla System – all the more since it consists of… Read More
Many electronic synth freaks don’t know who Ernst Krenek was. Which isn’t particularly surprising, since the composer is known above all for his orchestra- and choir-music and for his operas.… Read More
Know the Wavemakers? KB electronic music instrumentation? No? Hardly anyone remembers that American company, which built quality modular systems in the shadow of Moog. Established in 1970, the company closed… Read More