The OB-1 belongs to the timeless elite of classic mono synthesizers. It ranks among the very best and shares its place in the Top 10 with legends such as the… Read More
Oberheim OB-1 – unrivaled lead-synth with memories
Category: Reviews
OSCar Synthesizer – the unique fetish synth from the UK
Whoever knows of a vintage mono-synth that can produce more timbres than an OSCar, please raise your hand NOW … … … No one? Wonderful, then we already agree on… Read More
GRP A8 – analog studio synthesizer
„If you wanna start, start big!“ is what Groppioni Paolo (GrP) must have told me in 2008. We were sitting in front of a huge proxy of a synthesizer panel.… Read More
Moog Polymoog Synthesizer – an auralesque miracle
Polymoog? No, no, no .. out of the question … never-ever! That’s what I thought for years. Until Uncle Sigi called in 2024. He had fulfilled a late childhood dream… Read More
Rhodes/Fender CHROMA Polaris – coffee, extra cream?
The CHROMA Polaris is a remarkable American-Japanese blend of American sound and Japanese hardware and design. Today’s Polaris, the “synthesizer out of the grab bag”, had a completely different status… Read More
GeneralMusic GEM S2 / S2R / S3 – ingenious pro-synthesizers
Maybe you’ve heard some of those ever-persistent murmurings about the GeneralMusic S-Series: “The S2 synthesizer – a secret sound weapon”, “GEM S2 and S3 are among the best master keyboards… Read More
Roland SH-7 – a truely flexible Performance Synth
Launched in 1978, the Roland SH-7 is one of the rarest models in the Roland SH series. While the instrument is unusually flexible in terms of modulation possibilities, its 24dB… Read More
Roland VP-330 – figurehead of the Vocoder Hype
When it comes to iconic instruments in music electronics, Roland’s VP-330 has to be at the forefront. Its design is aesthetically pleasing, its sound memorable and timeless. Although only in… Read More
Crumar BIT ONE, BIT 99, BIT 01: Little gems of expressivity
These Crumars are not among the poly-analog synthesizers that have found a permanent place in the Valhalla of vintage instruments. They are unspectacular in appearance, their characteristic acoustic is rarely… Read More
GRP A1 – name it Dr. BASSSSSSSSssssssss
… or Dr. Elegiac-Solo-Voice, come to think of it. The magic words: sub-oscillator and triangle wave. Besides great basses and elegiac voices, the GRP A1 also brings FX sounds (moderately,… Read More