Due to the tremenduous success of our first meeting in September 2007 there will be another SYNTHESIZER MEETING KUFSTEIN end of August 2008...

The GRP A3 SYNTHESIZER comes in a solid, wooden box. Carrying handles to the left and right are a nice extra, just like the fondly constructed connection bar to the rear. The instrument's panel is printed...

The CASIO CZ-1000 is a 2 DCO-synthesizer capable of holding 16 presets and 16 user-programmable patches with a Compare/Recall option. The use of 1 oscillator allows for 8 polyphonic voices...

The influence of the OBERHEIM XPANDER (also known as XP-1) on the synth industry is undeniable, and it can be seen on most HQ synths that followed it...

Welcome to our Christmas story 2007! I'd say there's no instrument more suitable for such a grand occasion than the MINIMOOG synthesizer. It's the ultimate monophonic analogue keyboard...

In theory, the KORG POLY-800 is a 8-voice polyphonic synth. That's in "whole" mode - working only on DCO1. But certainly it is when you are layering sounds that the Poly-800 really springs to life...

The KORG ELECTRIBE ES is a small and handy machine. Built in 1999, it represented Korg’s (late) answer to Roland’s Groovebox MC-303 that had been released two years earlier.

The KAWAI SX-240 is awesome. Not that I realized that right away. It took 15 years, to be exact. I first came across this early MIDI analogue/digital synthesizer in a small US town somewhen around 1989...

Bluesynths hosted a VINTAGE SYNTHESIZER EXHIBITION at the My Music Fair. In corporation with Amazona.de and Synthesizer Magazin we maintained...

If I was one of those ancient, Greek semi-gods – sitting around on a cloud for thousands of years - I'd immediately buy a SEQUENTIAL SIX-TRAK. It's so much fun, and it's amazingly flexible...

After breakfast we continued the SYNTHESIZER MEETING. The small Kawai 100F is one of the most intriguing monophonics. Report with music clips by Robert Wittek. NEW: two MP4 movies by Mic...

The SYNTHESIZER MEETING'S highlight was a live performance by Hajo, Till and Wolfgang (who introduced his new room simulator). Report with sound files !!!

The SYNTHESIZER MEETING KUFSTEIN was a great success! 50+ synth freaks from all over Europe came to Tyrol and joined this unique event. We now collected enough material to fill three "features"...

After finally realizing that the Roland JX-8P is a wonderful analogue machine, it seemed only logical that its big brother ROLAND JX-10 / MKS-70 must be the best (DCO) synthesizer available...

The KORG DELTA is a serious multi-keyboard. It produces a wide range of marvellous, and surprisingly meaty, analogue sounds. In character it’s similar to the MS-20 (but with a lot less going on, of course!)...

You know John Doe, don’t you? We met in the middle of Germany to close a synthesizer deal. He has quite a COLLECTION! Rows and rows of rare modular systems and keyboards…

The TEISCO SX-400 is a rare sort of bird. As are nearly all Teisco synthesizers. But the SX-400 is REALLY scarce. Probably because it was the ...

The Microwave II was the first of a new line of Microwaves, that includes the MICROWAVE II, XT, PC and XTk. They´re basically the same synth, with an exchangeable patch format, ...

Maybe you’ve never seen the POWERTRAN TRANSCENDENT 2000 . It's a rare monophonic 1-VCO kit synthesizer designed by Tim Orr that was available from 1978 - 1984.

This at first glance insignificant little article is most important – it’s about music, the soul of all our synthesis efforts. Four very different musicians / groups meet in our first MUSIC LOUNGE ...

The Farfisa SYNTORCHESTRA was released in 1975. It is a piano/brass/string synthesizer, and therefore belongs to those typical seventies' multi-keyboards. It consists of two main parts...

This is no reinvention of the wheel, but actually the complexity of the 8-voice true analogue multitimbral Jomox SUNSYN hasn't been there yet. The term ‘8-fold storable modular system’...

Happy Knobbing 2007 report by Bert Fleissig. This time, Thommy “Anyware” Welsch, known as the man behind the SEMtex modular synthesizer, hosted the gathering...

In May 2007 I visited the wonderful Synthorama Synthesizer Museum in Switzerland once more. It was the perfect occassion to document those missing instruments we didn't mention before.

The Roland SH-3A is almost a classic. Well, almost... If it wasn't for some basic conceptional limitations, this would have turned out to be one of the most exciting (monophonic) analogue synthesizers.

Let´s be honest: when hearing the name FARFISA Polychrome, home organs come to mind. In the sixties the Italian manufacturer put out a legendary Compact-Series.

The Dynacord SRV-66 - identical to the Echolette SEV-66 and Synton Syntovox 222 – is still a widely used vocoder. But why?

Great new Andromeda A6_Demo.mp3 by Javier Zubizarreta listed in the Andromeda Review.

The KAWAI K3 is a typical representative of those mid-80ies synthesizers: membrane buttons (instead of real buttons and sliders), an Alpha Dial ...

Say OBERHEIM OB-X softly to yourself. A little mysterious, right? Brings back memories of a secret prototype Tom Oberheim himself told you about back at NAMM in '78 or so…