Waldorf Blofeld 🧻🧻🧻
German Humour (updated August ’21) There really is something about the Blofeld that inspires inadvertent snickering. Like an editor being released by “SoftKnobs”, which makes perfect sense but … c’mon. The…
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Arturia Origin Desktop 🧻🧻🧻
Prelude The number of times I have seen this thing, and thought maybe/ no/ maybe/ no/ maybe/ NO DAMN YOU is appalling. Appalling! “It’s just Arturia’s software synthesisers in a…
Moog Voyager 🧻🧻
Voyage to cat land. There was once MOOG and a few rivals. Good times, when the distinctions were plain to hear. Since then there have been clones and tributes and…
Alesis Micron and Ion 🧻🧻🧻
Alesis Micron: finally quit smoking The Ion arrived five years after the main Japanese virtual analogues. Boasting millennial processing power, it reached 8 voices each with three oscillators compared to…
Yamaha TX81z 🧻 🧻
“You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike”. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem with FM synthesis. You could probably get some great sounds with it…
Yamaha FS1r 🧻🧻
OK so having spat the dummy at this being a $4000 synthesiser and pointed out how you could make a substitute for a lot less, the real thing arrived in…
Yamaha AN1x 🧻🧻🧻
It is the 90s & there is time for Klax! I kept finding myself saying the AN200 is great box, but if only it had a better interface. And there…
Technics WSA1r 🧻
Sometimes I forget that the purpose of this joint is to celebrate the weird and unusual in the 1990’s rack. That mission statement is clear, but it’s also clear I…
Roland AIRA System 1m 🧻🧻🧻
Everything’s Gone Green Roland, roland, roland. It grieves me, it really does. Let’s make this short. You put the power switch on the back of a rack. Perhaps you had…
Roland SH32 🧻🧻
COMPUPHONIC as FUCK Here you see the SH-1 synthesiser I used in 1980 – 1981. The SH-1 was a perfectly adequate monophonic keyboard that made perfectly adequate sounds that contrasted…