Great Synthesizers is an online magazin with reviews, pictures, documents and soundfiles of analogue and digital synthesizers & related music gear
After introducing Iridium synthesizer in a compact desktop form, Waldorf takes the concept further forward with the Iridium Keyboard. It boosts a 49-key FATAR TP/8SK semi-weighted polyphonic aftertouch keyboard, an… Read More
For a long time I was ambivalent about the ELKA Synthex. Strong, powerful and brilliant on the one hand, too brilliant (perhaps), too clean and maybe even too digital on the… Read More
Modal Electronics introduces the Argon8, an amazingly impressive (and really affordable) 8-voice wavetable synthesizer. Aside from the 3 octave keyboard, the instrument offers everything you’d expect from a full-blown polyphonic… Read More
The Arturia MiniBrute 2 could easily be chosen “People’s-Analog-Synthesizer Number ONE of the decade”. It certainly has all the refinements that a modern versatile analog synth should have. But in… Read More
It’s astonishing that new analog synthesizers are still popping up like mushrooms. Not that you have to buy “every” single instrument – certainly not. But such handy desktop synths with… Read More
The GRP R24 is a 8×3 analog step sequencer firmly based on the mighty sequencer of the GRP A8 and GRP A4 analog synthesizer. The new R24 offers access to… Read More
Chameleon-like in its many control options, BeatStep is designed to work with DAWs, loop triggering software, VST-instruments or effects, MIDI hardware, or even CV/Gate-equipped analogue instruments (like Arturia’s MiniBrute or… Read More
If a “Mini” model is followed by an even smaller “Micro” model, expectations might be very low. You could easily overlook the new Arturia synthesizer, but … boy, that would… Read More
Finally! The remarkable GRP A8 / GRP A4 sequencer can soon be had as a stand-alone version. To be honest, the new machine can do much more than the original… Read More
After many years on the market, Doepfer has redesigned the MAQ 16/3 MIDI/CV step sequencer. They have issued it, visually adapted to the Dark (Energy) line. Very classy. Optically an… Read More