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Synth Museum

Features over 80 sample sets of classic and rare synthesizers from over 30 different manufacturers, mostly from the early to mid 1980's. There's even one from the late 1970's that is the size of most living-rooms ... no keys all modular (who knows why but it's here).

These are very-high-quality recordings of the actual synth at CD quality or higher. They were recorded as multi-notes over several octaves so each is an exact duplicate of that synth - NOT AN EMULATION. These have also been loaded into our samplers and are available at the click of a mouse and can then be even further modulated. They have been compiled from the private collection of our owners and are being made available for the first time as standard gear in our studio.

List of synths

Synth List

Manufacturer - Model	Release Year	Phonic	Type
Access - Virus	1997	Poly	Tone Generator
Ace Tone - Rhythm Ace FR-1	1972	Poly	Drum Machine
Arp - Axxe	1975-81	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Arp - Odyssey	1972-81	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Boss - DR-55	1980	Poly	Drum Machine
Boss - DR-110	1983	Poly	Drum Machine
Boss - DR-220	1986	Poly	Drum Machine
Buchla - Modular System 200	1970	Mono	Modular
Clavia - Nordlead 2	1997	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Coron - Drum Synce DS-7	1985	Mono	Drum Machine
Elektron - Sidstation	1998	Poly	Tone Generator
EMS - VCS-3	1967	Mono	Modular
E-mu - Modular	1972-81	Poly	Modular Keyboard
E-mu - Proteus 1	1989	Poly	Tone Generator
E-mu - Proteus 2	1990	Poly	Tone Generator
Ensoniq - ESQ-1	1987	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Fat - FB-383	1996	Poly	Tone Generator
Kawai - K1	1988	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Korg - KPR-77 Rhythmer	1982	Mono	Drum Machine
Korg - KR-55	1979	Poly	Drum Machine
Korg - M1R	1988-94	Poly	Tone Generator
Korg - M-500 Micropreset	1977-80	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Korg - Minipops	1976	Poly	Drum Machine
Korg - MS-10	1978	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Korg - MS-20	1978-83	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Korg - MS-2000	2000	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Korg - Poly 800	1985	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Korg - Polysix	1982	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Mattel - Synsonics Drums	1982	Poly	Drum Machine
Mfb - 512	1982	Poly	Drum Machine
Moog - Memorymoog	1982-85	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Moog - Micromoog	1975-79	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Moog - Minimoog	1970-81	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Moog - Multimoog	1978-81	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Moog - Prodigy	1979-84	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Moog - Rogue	1981-83	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Moog/Tandy/Radioshack - Realistic Concertmate MG-1	1981-83	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Novation - Basstation	1995	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Novation - Supernova	1998	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Oberheim - Matrix-1000	1989	Poly	Tone Generator
Oberheim - Matrix-6	1985	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Oberheim - Matrix-6R	1985	Poly	Tone Generator
Oberheim - OB-8	1983	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Oberheim - Xpander	1984	Poly	Tone Generator
Octave - Kitten	1975	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Paia - Fatman	1985	Poly	Tone Generator
Promars - Compuphonic	1979	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Rhodes - Chroma	1982-83	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Rhodes - Chroma Polaris	1984	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Roland - CR-78	1979	Poly	Drum Machine
Roland - CR-8000	1980	Poly	Drum Machine
Roland - JP-8000	1997	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Roland - Juno-106	1984	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Roland - Juno-6	1982	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Roland - Juno-60	1983	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Roland - Jupiter-4	1978	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Roland - JX-3P	1983	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Roland - JX-8P	1986	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Roland - MC-202	1983	Mono	Drum & Bass Machine
Roland - MC-303	1996-97	Poly	Drum & Bass Machine
Roland - R-8M	1989	Poly	Tone Generator
Roland - U-20	1989	Poly	Tone Generator
Roland - SH-09	1980	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Roland - SH-101	1982	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Roland - SH-5	1975	Mono	Keyboard Synth
Roland - System-100	1976	Mono	Modular Keyboard
Roland - TB-303	1982	Mono	Drum & Bass Machine
Roland - TR-606	1982	Poly	Drum Machine
Roland - TR-808	1982	Poly	Drum Machine
Roland - TR-909	1982	Poly	Drum Machine
Sequential Circuits - Prophet-5	1978	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Sequential Circuits - Prophet-600	1982	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Serge - Modular	1995	Poly	Modular Keyboard
Siel - DK-600	1984-85	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Soundmaster - SR-88	1983-89	Poly	Drum Machine
Soundmaster - ST-305	1983-89	Poly	Drum Machine
Univox - Microrhythmer-12	1980's	Mono	Drum Machine
Waldorf - Pulse	1996	Mono	Tone Generator
Yamaha - CS1x	1996	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Yamaha - CS-50	1976	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Yamaha - DX7	1983-87	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Yamaha - DX100	1986	Poly	Keyboard Synth
Yamaha - TX81Z	1987	Poly	Tone Generator

Synth Photos and Quick Descriptions

Access - Virus	Ace Tone - Rhythm Ace FR-1
German made analog synthesizer Release Year: 1997 Phony: Polyphonic	Analogue drum machine Release Year: 1972 Phony: Polyphonic

Arp - Axxe	Arp - Odyssey
A small one osc synth from the middle 70s. It is the younger brother of the Arp Odyssey. Release Year: 1975-81 Phony: Monophonic	Duophonic 37-key synth. Made in many different versions over the years. Very fat sounds! Release Year: 1972-81 Phony: Polyphonic

Boss - DR-55	Boss - DR-110
Little black beatbox with analogue sounds. Release Year: 1980 Phony: Polyphonic	Little silver beatbox with soft drums, very analogue. Release Year: 1983 Phony: Polyphonic

Boss - DR-220	Buchla - Modular System 200
11 sounds, difference between two models is one had acoustic drum sounds (a) and the other 'electronic' drum sounds (e) Release Year: 1986 Phony: Polyphonic	Release Year: 1970 Phony: Monophonic

Clavia - Nordlead 2	Coron - Drum Synce DS-7
Red Swedish analogue synth loved by many professional musicians. Release Year: 1997 Phony: Polyphonic	Release Year: 1985 Phony: Monophonic

Elektron - Sidstation	EMS - VCS-3
Swedish module based on the 6581 chip from the Commodore 64 computer. Release Year: 1998 Phony: Polyphonic	Synth using Matrix programming. Release Year: 1967 Phony: Monophonic

E-mu - Modular	E-mu - Proteus 1
Huge modular beast! Custom made hand built! Only 100 of this was ever made Release Year: 1972-81 Phony: Polyphonic	Rack mount module consisting of rock and pop sounds. Release Year: 1989 Phony: Polyphonic

E-mu - Proteus 2	Ensoniq - ESQ-1
Rack mount module consisting of orchestral sounds. Release Year: 1990 Phony: Polyphonic	Classic synth with vast modulation routings possibilities and excellent filters making it capable of creating some unusual analogue sounds. Release Year: 1987 Phony: Polyphonic

Fat - FB-383	Kawai - K1
Beat box. Release Year: 1996 Phony: Polyphonic	256 digital samples of waveforms, 50 from acoustic instruments. Release Year: 1988 Phony: Polyphonic

Korg - Minipops	Korg - M-500 Micropreset
Preset rhythm machine from the 1970's. Release Year: 1976 Phony: Polyphonic	32 note preset synth, built in speakers. Release Year: 1977-80 Phony: Monophonic

Korg - KR-55	Korg - KPR-77 Rhythmer
Rhythm machine packed with 'advanced' features such as intro fill-in and swing beat features. Release Year: 1979 Phony: Polyphonic	Drum machine, has some classic analogue sounds. Release Year: 1982 Phony: Monophonic

Korg - MS-10	Korg - MS-20
Great bass and percussive sounds. Release Year: 1978 Phony: Monophonic	Big brother to the MS-10. Release Year: 1978-83 Phony: Monophonic

Korg - Polysix	Korg - Poly 800
Lots of knobs, 6 voice polyphonic synth with sub-oscilator, built in effects. Release Year: 1982 Phony: Polyphonic	8 voices polyphonic synth, joystick used for pitch. Release Year: 1985 Phony: Polyphonic

Korg - M1R	Korg - MS-2000
Popular and widely used digital synthesizer and music workstation. Features built-in AI Synthesis. Release Year: 1988-94 Phony: Polyphonic	Combines state of the art Analog Physical Modelling synth sounds Release Year: 2000 Phony: Polyphonic

Mattel - Synsonics Drums	Mfb - 512
Triggers with built in sounds Release Year: 1982 Phony: Polyphonic	German digital drum machine. Release Year: 1982 Phony: Polyphonic

Moog - Minimoog	Moog - Micromoog
Digital Analog Synth Release Year: 1970-81 Phony: Monophonic	Tiny but powerful synth. Release Year: 1975-79 Phony: Monophonic

Moog - Multimoog	Moog - Prodigy
Big brother to the Micromoog. Release Year: 1978-81 Phony: Monophonic	Duophonic synth with high quality filters and modulation control. It is the poor man's Minimoog. Release Year: 1979-84 Phony: Monophonic

Moog - Rogue	Moog - Memorymoog
Two-oscillator analog monosynth. Miniaturized Prodigy. Licensed the design to Tandy/Radioshack (Realistic Concertmate MG-1). Also utilized in Tarus II Bass Synth. Release Year: 1981-83 Phony: Monophonic	Analog Subtractive, 6 note polyphonic. Only 3,500 produced. Release Year: 1982-85 Phony: Polyphonic

Moog/Tandy/Radioshack - Realistic Concertmate MG-1	Novation - Basstation
Licensed the design to Tandy/Radioshack. Fat basses. Release Year: 1981-83 Phony: Polyphonic	Used for creating all kind of basses ranging from Roland tb-303 to classic Moog. Available as keyboard and rack module. Release Year: 1995 Phony: Monophonic

Novation - Supernova	Oberheim - OB-8
Virtual analog Subtractive. 20 voices (expandable to 32). Release Year: 1998 Phony: Polyphonic	Analog Subtractive, 8 note polyphonic. Release Year: 1983 Phony: Polyphonic

Oberheim - Xpander	Oberheim - Matrix-6
6 voice desktop version of Matrix 12. Produces very fat sounds with 2 OSCs and 5 LFOs per voice. Release Year: 1984 Phony: Polyphonic	12 DCO's 6 voices and MIDI controlled. Release Year: 1985 Phony: Polyphonic

Oberheim - Matrix-6R	Oberheim - Matrix-1000
Rack mount version of the Matrix 6. Release Year: 1985 Phony: Polyphonic	Module version of the Matrix 6. Very smooth, broad analogue sounds. Highly usable for ambient sounds like pads and sweeps. Release Year: 1989 Phony: Polyphonic

Octave - Kitten	Paia - Fatman
1 Osc synth with 2 sub osc. Release Year: 1975 Phony: Monophonic	It's a make-it-yourself synth. Cheap to buy and simple to assemble from kit. Release Year: 1985 Phony: Polyphonic

Promars Compuphonic	Rhodes - Chroma
Also known as a Roland Promars Compuphonic (MRS-2) is essentially a classic, monophonic version of the Jupiter 4. Release Year: 1979 Phony: Monophonic	Advanced analogue/digital hybrid with an Intel 80186 as CPU. This was the last synth made by Arp before they went bankrupt and was then bought by the CBS owned company Rhodes. Release Year: 1982-83 Phony: Polyphonic

Rhodes - Chroma Polaris	Roland - SH-5
Very hard to find on the used marked. Originally made by Arp before they went bankrupt. Release Year: 1984 Phony: Polyphonic	2 oscillator monophonic synth with lots of patching possibilities. 2 filters ringmodulator and s&h. Release Year: 1975 Phony: Monophonic

Roland - System-100	Roland - Jupiter-4
Megafat semi modular synth for any kind of analogue sounds. Highly patchable and many features. Release Year: 1976 Phony: Monophonic	4 individual voices. Wooden panels. Release Year: 1978 Phony: Polyphonic

Roland - CR-78	Roland - CR-8000
Little rythmbox with built in patterns playing very analogue and electronic drum sounds. Used by 808 state. Release Year: 1979 Phony: Polyphonic	Rhythm box with preset and programmable patterns. Lots of knobs and buttons. 13 different sounds and 10 notes polyphony. Release Year: 1980 Phony: Polyphonic

Roland - SH-09	Roland - SH-101
Stripped down monosynth. Release Year: 1980 Phony: Monophonic	Small 1 oscillator synth comes in various colours. Highly popular in the techno/trance/acid for screaming basses. Release Year: 1982 Phony: Monophonic

Roland - TB-303	Roland - TR-606
Highly used silver box. Played major part in formation of techno-house and acid in late 80's. Release Year: 1982 Phony: Monophonic	Relased together with the tb-303. Slimmed down version of tr-808. Release Year: 1982 Phony: Polyphonic

Roland - TR-808	Roland - TR-909
One of the classic drum machines. Used for soul and hiphop and for just about anything. Great sounds! Release Year: 1982 Phony: Polyphonic	The! drum machine of 90's. Everybody knows a 909 sound because it's used everywhere. Some say overused... Release Year: 1982 Phony: Polyphonic

Roland - Juno-6	Roland - Juno-60
Smaller brother of Juno-106, slightly fatter sound. No midi. Release Year: 1982 Phony: Polyphonic	Analog synthesizer/sequencer. It sounds like the TB-303 and SH-101 bass synths. "poor man's 303". Release Year: 1983 Phony: Monophonic

Roland - MC-202	Roland - JX-3P
Analog synthesizer/sequencer. It sounds like the TB-303 and SH-101 bass synths. "poor man's 303". Release Year: 1983 Phony: Monophonic	Roland's first MIDI synth. Release Year: 1983 Phony: Monophonic

Roland - Juno-106	Roland - JX-8P
One of Rolands most popular synths ever. 6 voice polyphony midi controllable and excellent Roland filters. Release Year: 1984 Phony: Polyphonic	6 voices polyphony. Lacks tweakability being stripped almost completely of knobs and sliders. Release Year: 1986 Phony: Polyphonic

Roland - U-20	Roland - R-8M
Digital synth uses ROM samples. 6 part multitimbrality with 7th drum part. Release Year: 1989 Phony: Polyphonic	One of the very best drum machines ever. Excellent sounds which can be expanded by sound cards. Coolest tricks are Feel Patches which program a human-like groove. Release Year: 1989 Phony: Polyphonic

Roland - MC-303	Roland - JP-8000
Original groovebox for dance/techno. 303, 808, 909, Jupiter, and Juno sounds. Release Year: 1996-97 Phony: Polyphonic	First-of-its-kind Roland Analog Modeling. Release Year: 1997 Phony: Polyphonic

Sequential Circuits - Prophet-5	Sequential Circuits - Prophet-600
Produces very warm and organic sounds. Extensive modulation capabilities. Release Year: 1978 Phony: Polyphonic	The worlds first MIDI synth. 6 voices polyphony. Younger brother to Prophet 5. Great for ambient and drones. Release Year: 1982 Phony: Polyphonic

Serge - Modular	Siel - DK-600
Huge modular system which can be upgraded to monsterous proportions making some incredible sounds. This is a beast!!! Release Year: 1995 Phony: Polyphonic	Italian take on mid-eighties polysynths, MIDI implementation 6 voice polyphonic.. Called Opera-6 in the UK. Release Year: 1984-85 Phony: Polyphonic

Soundmaster - SR-88	Soundmaster - ST-305
Little beatbox with short snappy analogue drums. Sounds like beats on old electric organs. Release Year: 1983-89 Phony: Polyphonic	Little beatbox. Release Year: 1983-89 Phony: Polyphonic

Univox - Microrhythmer-12	Waldorf - Pulse
You can change the paterns and start and stop. Release Year: 1980's Phony: Monophonic	3 oscillators and an arpeggiator. Release Year: 1996 Phony: Monophonic

Yamaha - CS-50	Yamaha - CS1x
Released one year before famous big brothers, CS-60 and CS-80. 4-voice polyphonic. Release Year: 1976 Phony: Polyphonic	Yamaha's first Analog Emulation performance keyboard. Release Year: 1996 Phony: Polyphonic

Yamaha - DX7	Yamaha - DX100
One of most popular synths ever. Featured new FM synthesis. Release Year: 1983-87 Phony: Polyphonic	Small portable DX (FM) synthesizer. Mini Keys. Release Year: 1986 Phony: Polyphonic

Yamaha - TX81Z

FM synthesizer, multitimbral, key-less version of DX-11.
Release Year: 1987
Phony: Polyphonic

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