The SynKey is a pretty classic polyphonic synthesizer with some pretty amazing technology for 1976. It’s got a huge sound because it has 13 oscillators! The oscillator are set up like this: …

The ARP 2600 was arguably one of the greatest analog synthesizers ever and has been used in just about every form of music. It’s a semi-modular, monophonic synth that was made to compete directly …

The Oberheim 4 voice was the first proper poly synth, and also the first synthesizer to us a digitally scanned keyboard. Each of it’s voices is a complete Oberheim SEM module, each functioning as …

This is the first part in a multi-part series on vintage synthesizer advertisements that appear in (usually old) magazines. I used to drool over some of these synthesizers and drum machines, as the closest …