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More Synths & Keyboards
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Analogue Systems make the RS Integrator, a modular analog synthesizer. See Intermusic's review |
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Make a range of music electronic gear including digital pianos. |
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Make high quality voltage controlled analog synthesizer modules. |
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The Chameleon is a multi-functional DSP rack unit. The software development kit is available to all those interested making the Chameleon the only open platform around. |
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Very useful site presenting info and resources for the Cheetah MS6. Includes a MS6 Windows editor. For more info see the MS6 Page. |
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PCI card based DSP FM & modular synthesis, sample playback, 32 channel mixing and PC audio I/O |
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Physically the same as the original Modcan A-Series modules, and electronically our signals are also directly compatible with STS Serge, and Fenix brand banana jack based analog modular synthesizers. |
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Poly Evolver is the latest analog/digital synth from Dave Smith well known for his work with Sequential Circuits on the Prophet-VS. |
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Digisound 80 was a modular synth project built by DIY enthusiasts. Also see Digisound Project 80. |
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Stylophones can be obtained in limited supply here. Norm Leete also provided a brief history of this very early consumer handheld electronic organ used by Rolf Harris and used on David Bowie's "Space Oddity", which was played with a metal stylus. You can download a free VSTi Stylophone from KvR. Wikipedia has a Stylophone page. See Think Geek for a new remake. |
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Electro-Harmonix make a range of guitar pedals containing synth filters and effects. |
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Hugh Le Caine designed the worlds first voltage controlled synthesizer. |
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The home of synth products like Machinedrum and Sidstation plus more. |
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An archive of Howie's Elka Synthex site provides info, audio samples and also has a list of Elka Synthex owners. See the SOS retro review for more info. |
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Proclaimed "The World's Longest Established Synthesizer Manufacturer" EMS still provide parts & support for most original products. Products include Vocoders. |
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Wikipedia's page for the Fairlight. Fairlight CMI is famous for being one of the first companies to sell a sampling workstation. Fairlight now make high end DAW systems. For Fairlight CMI info, discussion and resources see the Holmes Page. Hermann Seib has resources and info for the CMI IIx. Fairlight still produce high end digital recording solutions but not keyboards. K.M.I also provides info as well as pictures and links to Fairlight resources. CMI Control is software that allows CMI control from a PC running Windows. You also can read archived Fairlight Newletters. Fairlight also made the CVI video processor. Read about the QASAR an early forerunner to the CMI range. There is a Fairlight CMI Yahoo Group. |
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The makers of portable organs for many years still make arranger keyboards. See farfisa.org for info and pictures of a range of Farfisa organs used in the 60s and 70s. Also see Combo Organ heaven and the World Of Classic Keyboards. |
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Fatar are known for their range of midi keyboard & pedal controllers. Info available on all current models, from fully weighted 88 key to budget priced keyboards suitable for multimedia applications. |
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Although the Fenix modular is no longer manufactured they maintained a home page on the web for a while. |
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Joe Rinaudo demonstrates the Fotoplayer that was used in the early 20th Century to accompany silent movies with realtime music and sound effects. This is an awesome part of keyboard history that Joe is keeping alive for future generations. |
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Official site of the 777 mononphonic analog synthesizer. The 777 can accurately recreate the TB-303 sounds as well as everything from deep basses to lead synthesizer parts, kick drums, high hats, snares, toms ... plus many more. See the Yahoo Future Retro Group. |
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Links here at Synth Zone to GeneralMusic resources. |
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Danish producer of programmable and nonprogrammable analogue synthesizers. They also repair all brands of synthesizers, samplers and drum machines. |
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Make a two manual organ with drawbars that uses the Native Instruments B4 software. |
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Check the latest portable style Hammond XK-2 that has been reviewed highly for it's faithful B3 emulation as well as the original square fronted keys. The Hammond & Leslie FAQ is a good HTML FAQ page with info on everything relating to Hammond organs & Leslie speakers, including a bibliography with links to documentation & books online. It is also part of the Hammond Tone Wheel Organ Ring which links to many related interest sites. See the Organ Studio's Leslie page showing the various models of Leslie speaker cabinets that were produced. Keyboard Exchange deal in pre-owned Hammond organs, Leslie speaker enclosures and electronic church and theater organs. OrganFax also has some relevent info and links for organ players. |
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A USB synth module with 4 Commodore 64 SID chips and VSTi controller software. Very cool. |
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Don Tillman's Clavinet resources page with info on obtaining parts for aging clavinets. Also see the Clavinet.com resource site for info on repairing Clavinets as well as available parts and user discussion. |
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Canadian electronic music pioneer who designed over twenty analogue musical instruments including the Sackbut and Touch Sensitive Organ. |
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IKARON is a modular synthesizer for the PC. It's a specialized DSP card with individual I/O. |
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Presents the Solaris which has the flexibility of a modular synth. |
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Makers of analog drum & synth modules as well as Midi->CV converters. |
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This website is an ongoing project to archive information on JVC keyboards and organs. |
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Digitally modelled electronic organs. |
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Pianos with the left of the keyboard being high notes and low notes to the right. While I am left handed myself I am not convinced that this is really what the left handed keyboard player really needs .... decide for yourself. |
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Don Buchla's Lightning II is a specialized MIDI controller that senses the position and movement of handheld wands and transforms this information to MIDI signals for expressive control of electronic musical instrumentation. Also contains a 32 voice multitimbral synth engine as well !! Also see the Buchla 700 Group. |
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Produce the Mediastation X-76, a Linux Open Source based arranger keyboard for increased performance and stability. |
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Makers of electronic organs for many years. |
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An experimental midi controller using photocells that react to light like a theremin. |
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Make serial and MIDI interfaces as well as USB keyboard controllers. |
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Info and sound demos of the M3X analog synthesizer. |
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Music And More is a German manufacturer of analog synths and MIDI sequencers. |
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Make Harpjji that marries the logic of the keyboard with the expressive capability of a fretted instrument. |
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An early monophonic electronic keyboard invented in 1928 and features both keyboard & ribbon control. |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Mellotron and how it was used. A very famous analog tape driven "sampler" that featured heavily in many 70s recordings. Requires a special playing style to keep those tapes rewinding. For servicing, parts & repairs see Mellotron Archives UK. Streetly Electronics provides parts and restoration services for Mellotron owners. And if you want to emulate the original sounds on your sampler try J.P. Hovercraft's Samples which has multisamples of various Mellotron sounds. Also pay a visit to Don Tillman's Mellotron Page as well as Tronsounds and Mellotrons, Chamberlins and their sounds. For more info on Mellotrons and Mellotronists see Ken Leonard. Yahoo has a Mellotronists Group. |
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An online source for the Melodica, the classic keyboard controlled wind instrument. |
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The only firm in the world making synthesizer modules out of vacuum tubes. Totally unique. Their current TM series modules are usable standalone, or mountable in MOTM or Doepfer racks (the only modules capable of it). |
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Midibox is a DIY MIDI controller project based on the C64 SID chip. |
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Modcan make modular synthesizers with a range of modules available. |
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A rack module that lets you take your VST plugins on the road for soft synthesis and audio processing. |
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Make keyboard production stations 25 and 61 key models available. |
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A very good website that documents Russian vintage synthesizers and also provides manuals and schematics for some of them. Also see Russian Analog Synths for some pictures and audio examples and the Polivoks Page. |
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Website in development that preserves the history of the Omnichord. |
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Home of the OpenSynth platform that combines the power and flexibility of a personal computer with a traditional electronic keyboard. Allows you to use VSTi plugins as sound sources. |
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Dedicated to immortalising a home keyboard released by the toy company Mattel in the 70s, that attempted to recreate the sound of real instruments using recordings on celluloid discs. Also see Oh Beautiful Optigan. |
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Italian manufacturer of keyboards, organs, accordians and arranger modules. |
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Info, resources & products for the PPG Wave synth. The PPG Section at Synth.net also provides PPG info. Also see the Unofficial PPG Users Group. The Waveterm-C Page which has a demo of a DOS program (incomplete as yet) that attempts to emulate a Waveterm-B on your PC. There is now a PPG Mailing List presented by a new PPG fan site Wavesynth.com. Virtual Music has a V8 upgrade to provide MIDI plus a keyboard upgrade. See PPG System for more info. |
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A page that documents the Prism synth that never made it into production. |
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Make keyboard and module synths using DSP and analog technology. |
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This site provides patches as well as a lot of good information on the Rhodes Chroma polyphonic analog synthesizer. Part suppliers and relevant book & magazine reviews are also listed. This synth shares nones of the Rhodes heritage, the name was simply used by Fender who produced it as they owned the rights to use "Rhodes" at the time. |
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Famous for the first sample based midi drum machines and also the Akai MPC-60 design (new system software now available). Checkout AdrenaLinn his latest product for processing electric guitar. Also see Bobby Nathan's article on what happened to the Linn 9000 as well as the Linn 9000 Homepage. Original samples from the Linn Drum EPROMS can be found here. Forat also provide some support for Linn products. |
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Information on the RSF Kobol made in France in the late 70s. |
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If you ever enjoyed mod files on the Commodore 64 you better check this out. Sidstation is a synth box featuring a SID chip in a case with full midi implementation and front panel programability. This is the first product released by Elektron ESI. Read the Intermusic review |
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This site documents a number of synth models released by Siel. |
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Simmons are well known for making drum synths that provided that unmistakable sound on many hit records. |
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An unofficial Serge Modular web site with info, history and links to Serge related pages online. |
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Simmons made analog drum synths that provided that charactistic synthesized percussion sound in the early 80s. |
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Synthetic Music Systems in the UK make handmade analogue synths featuring the MARS ( Modular Analogue Rack Synthesizer ). |
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SOLi Music make MIDI modules for using with MIDI piano accordians, with an emphasis on sounds for traditional German music. |
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Products include the Neptune, an analog synth with both CV/Gate and MIDI control. |
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An analog synthesizer from Radikal Technologies |
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The Synclavier is one of the earliest digital synthesizers, and was followed by the more advanced Synclavier II which supported polyphonic sampling. Yaking Cat Music Studios provide assistance, technical information and parts for Synclavier machines. See Synclavier.com for documentation files and resource links. |
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SynthAxe info from Alec Stansfield. It was also played by Lee Ritenour on the Earth Run album and by Alan Holdsworth. |
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Custom built modular analog synthesizers from Synthesizers.com a branch of Arrick Robotics. |
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Technosaurus produce analog modular synths including the world's smallest micro synth. |
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Syntecno's TeeBee is a TB-303 clone with memory & modern midi implementation. No longer available. |
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A unique Theremin Midi Controller, that has some excellent build in sounds and a very musical Theremin Controlled Resonant Filter. A mini Synth style Theremin with Ring Modulator and Noise Generator and with a flexible Midi implementation, designed for driving Samplers and Soft Synths. A few Theremins are still for sale, exclusive via the website only. |
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Sell Theremins and kits. |
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Provides schematics, resources plus history of the Theremin. Music featuring the Theremin is also covered. There is also a Yahoo Theremin Group. |
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A light sensitive theremin available for sale. |
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Info & resources for the Theremin, one of the first electronic instruments & with a unique controller interface. Even the schematics to build your own Theremin !! |
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Archive of a page with manuals, info and pictures for Teisco synthesizers. |
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Great listing of links to info on analog video synthesizers over the years. Very interesting reading. |
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Make portable and full size organs. In the past they manufactured the digital Oberheim OB-12 synthesizer. |
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Voce make affordable yet highly convincing digital organ modules, with particular emphasis on B3 emulation. |
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VOX are well known for their portable organs used heavily in '60s pop music, as well as the VOX AC-30, a legendary guitar amplifier. They no longer make organs. VOX Showroom are a great source of information on past VOX products. |
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Wersi products include arranger keyboards and organs. See Wersi club sites wersiclub.co.uk and wersiclub-ukfocus.org.uk. |
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Wiard Synthesizer Company produce analog modular synthesizers and are now available to purchase. |
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A site dedicated to the memory of Wurlitzer electric pianos. Pictures & descriptions of a variety of models of Wurlitzer pianos. See ATOS for info on Wurlitzer organs and other theater organ info. |
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