Posted on 13/06/1983
A worthy substitute? In 1982 during rehearsals for the DeFilm project, my main synth -the notoriously flaky PPG Wave 2.0 – needed a break for firmware updates and fixes. I needed a poly synth, so I was offered to borrow the Yamaha CS-60 during the repair period. So I took the rather heavy unit to […]
Posted on 25/04/1983
An experimental soundbite featuring the mighty EMS Synthi-100 Modular Synth. Recorded in HEMS, Denmark, 1984 by Jesper Ranum.
Posted on 01/01/1983
Posted on 24/11/1982
Merging with the computer After using a combination of analog synthesizers and CV MicroComposers (see The Sequencers) for some time, a new semi-affordable digital product was launched that promised to deliver a combination of the two functions – much like the absurdly expensive NED Synclavier and Fairlight Series II systems. The synth was called The […]
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 26/08/1981
The grandiose synthesizer theme from the movie “Chariots of Fire” (1981) is probably one of best known synthesizer themes ever. Composed and performed by Greek movie composer and musician Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou). When subsequentially released as a single, It even went #1 on Billboard top-100 and top-10 in certain territories, which is not very […]
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