Posted on 07/02/1982
When the Roland SH-5 suitcase synth was launched it was quite a different machine from the standard MiniMoogs, Micromoogs and Arp Odysseys of the days. It owned and used the SH-5 for a long period, and looking back I should never have parted with it. Expanded feature set The SH-5 builds on Roland first professional synth, the already […]
Posted on 01/01/1981
Posted on 20/07/1980
Posted on 01/07/1980
Posted on 10/05/1980
A sound innovator Wolfgang Palm is a leading synthesizer hardware designer from Germany, who started out building custom accessories and modular synthesizers under the name “PPG”. The product were originally custom made for professional users, like the German “Berlin-school” electronic band Tangerine Dream . The wavetable synths But Palms real innovation was probably his work with Wavetables – […]
Posted on 26/07/1978
Affordable modular. I had been enviously looking at the modular synthesizers used by my musical heroes, and stalking the music stores to find a system like the ARP-2600. But it was very far between them in Denmark in the late 70s. So when Korg launched a new range of synthesizers in 1978, it came in the […]
Posted on 29/04/1978
Posted on 02/10/1976
I started my sequencing career in 1976 using the Roland 104 Analog Sequencer, hooked up to the Moog Sonic Six – my first synthesizer. The sequencer was originally part of the Roland System 100 Synthesizer system, but could be purchased individually, too. I hooked it up via a piece of copper wire to the Moog’s […]