In many ways the Arturia MiniBrute is an exception to the rule. First, it’s French, a rarity on the analog synth market. Second, it’s something really special. THE analog synth… Read More
Arturia MiniBrute – the new Roland SH-101?
Category: 2012
MFB Dominion X / X SED – the OSCar effect
Synthesizer enthusiasts lived (and still live) in a world of their own. Back in the 70’s or early 80’s you might have come across a Minimoog lying in some store… Read More
Sequential Pro-One – best vintage monophonic?
Sequential’s Pro-One synthesizer is a miracle. It was released at a time when monophonic synths had to fight a final battle against polyphonics, which became more and more popular. Quite… Read More
Vermona PERfourMER MKII – the new Four-Voice?
It doesn’t happen too often that you play a brand new analog synthesizer for the first time and everything is perfect, just the way it should be. But this was… Read More
ARP Axxe – small is beautiful
“Welcome to the ARP AXXE Electronic Music Synthesizer. Your AXXE will take you on the most important experience of your musical career. The AXXE synthesizer will broaden your creativity and… Read More
GRP A4 – WILD analog synthesizer
Have you ever been bitten by a loud little dog? In the back of your knee, or maybe in your hand? That does sometimes happen, even though the critters in… Read More
Anyware Instruments Tinysizer – a compact modular system
In the laboratory of the mad Professor Thomas Welsch (a.k.a. Tommy Analog), a baby monster was born. Don’t get fooled by its size, as I mentioned: it is a monster!… Read More
Kawai K3 – a rare hybrid synthesizer
The Kawai K3 is a typical representative of those mid-80ies synthesizers: membrane buttons (instead of real buttons), an Alpha Dial which is used to edit the extensive selection of parameters,… Read More
Korg MS-20 – the semi-modular revolution
The Korg MS-20 synthesizer was released in 1978. This landmark indicated to American synthesizer manufacturers the coming dominant factor in the synthesizer field: Japan. In its brief life span (production… Read More