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
OSCar Synthesizer – the unique fetish synth from the UK
Category: Reviews
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
Roland Jupiter-6 – of harmonics, pads and polyrhythms
Roland Jupiter-6. Cult status? Nope! Sales success? So-so. Since its release in 1983, the Jupiter-6 has been traded as a niche product between the Juno-60 and the Jupiter-8. So …… Read More