A Brief History Of Vintage Synths from The 70′s

Lets work backward in time to take a look at the most renowned synths to ever hit the market.

Some individuals wanted those spectacular sounds of the 1970 and 1980s back. The problem was the price needed to purchase and maintain those old machines. And then luckily in 1995 along came the Access Virus. It comprised of a lot of patch storage, effects and a vocoder. This really was a new digital based virtual based analogue synthesiser.

Although first introduced in 1992 the Roland JV series came to be recognise. There are the Roland workstation series of semi synths. It all began with the JV-80 and 90. Then progressed onto the JV 1080 and JV 2080. What these produced were surprising in regards to extremely accurate and completely believable genuine instrument samples. It tested to be a brilliant money saver for musicians. No longer did they need to depend on real instruments. They were paced with expansion alternatives and polyphony so the JV series worked it’s way into the XV series that you see on the market nowadays.

The most well sold synth ever known was the Korg M1 in 1988. This unique synth was a semi workstation synth. The price, sound and look of it pictures how much effort the manufacturer put in. As a good traditional subtractive synthesiser sound, the A1 synthesis technique made this possible. When you combined this with the sixteen voice polyphony and the many built in effects and sequencer, you had it all. There is zero doubts as to why this synth was so well known.

Those who knows Roland D-50 will know that its still utilised nowadays. It has a great deal of polyphony and can be heard on many of the records of the 1980/90s. The new LA synthesis architecture never became a well-known item, but it fit in well with the 8 bit form of PCM sampling. It allowed for unique sounds that had never been known before.

In 1984, hope surfaced for those fans of synthesizers that could just not afford to be required in the past. This was brought about because of the Roland Juno-106. It permitted hybrid DCO based synthesis technology to be used by musicians who had never had the chance in the past. It’s limited to a single filter and oscillator, it had an essential chorus effect and sounds from the 80s that made it into a very popular item.