Korg Trinity Plus - mooseherman's review
This is a digital synthesizer, with a 32 polyphony and pitch, modulation, sustain controllers. The device is also a MIDI controller as are most digital synths. There is an incredibly wide variety of …
Clavia Nord Stage Compact - moosers's review
The Clavia Nord Stage Compact is a digital synthesizer that has all sorts of keyboard sounds. It is a fully polyphonic keyboard except when you are using a monophonic synth, which can be altered if …
Roland JUNO-D - moosers's review
The Roland Juno-D is a 61 key synthesizer that can be used in a variety of situations and applications. It can be used as a typical synth or as an emulation system for acoustic instruments. The syn…
Roland D-5 - songboy's review
What type of keyboard (synth, piano...)? How many octaves? This is a synth board. It does have piano patches but they in no way sound like real piano's. What controlers (pitch, modulation, sustain..…
Casio CZ-1 - midcomsys's review
Casio's ultimate 'Phase Distortion' synth. It offers up the following: 1)5 octave unweighted velocity and aftertouch keyboard. 2)Standard pitchbend and modulation wheels. 3)16 note polyphonic. 4)Chor…
Yamaha DX7 - moosers's review
The Yamaha DX7 is a frequency modulation based digital synthesizer. The keyboard spans about four and a half octaves and has both pitch and modulation wheels. It has 1/4 inch outputs and it also has …
Clavia Nord Stage 88 - Audiofanzine FR's review
(Originally written by Septentrion/translated from Audiofanzine FR) I have to admit that I miss my Gem ProMega 3 but I sold it because of its weight, reliability problems, and because Gem h…
Roland JV-30 - Audiofanzine FR's review
(Originally written by jm16s/translated from Audiofanzine FR) Digital synthesizer. Five octaves. Small joystick for pitch and modulation control. Standard connections: - MIDI (in, out, th…
Alesis QS6.1 - phraseland's review
The Alesis 6.1 stands for the version with 61 keys (5 octaves). I has a couple of 'pitch wheel' controllers and four sliders for sound variations - all of which of course can be assigned to the param…
Yamaha DX27 - Audiofanzine FR's review
(Originally written by elriton/translated from Audiofanzine FR) 4-Operator Digital FM synthesizer with 8 octaves and MIDI 61 keys Pitch and modulation controls Sustain via footswitch Breath control …
Kawai K5000S - Audiofanzine FR's review
(Originally written by iSiStOy/translated from Audiofanzine FR) See previous reviews. UTILIZATION Classic configuration. Patch editing is rather complex. You don't have to know the FFT formulas b…
Yamaha DX7 - FP User's review
For being released in teh early 80s, this synth is by far and away one of the best of its era. Great sounds, but there are 10,000+ library files online to go through to find what you're looking for. …
Roland XP-30 - FP User's review
Im very satisfied Price paid $800 UTILIZATION It can be either really hard or really easy...if you dont have the software librarian Sound Diver 2.0 which should come with your keyboard, then inte…
Hartmann Neuron - FP User's review
Sick! Price paid $4,500.00 UTILIZATION I'm still playing with it, but so far so good! One the best sounding boards since the mini moog SOUNDS Clean or ghostly sounding you name it! OVERALL OP…
Yamaha SY22 - FP User's review
Plenty of features. I wish it had knobs. The Vector Control Joystick is very useful for creating ambient sounds. Price paid 900 UTILIZATION Easy to use, manual is good. Very robust, never had a …
Yamaha DX7 - FP User's review
I love digital synths. I am an industrial musician in a project called SCAB, my name is wrat. I wouldn't use anything else! Price paid $400 UTILIZATION May be difficult for beginners, but I can s…
Yamaha DX7 IID - FP User's review
I believe It is one of the first synths with midi, so there is room for improvement, the user interface could be made better (like having sliders / knobs etc.). there is no filter (accordig to my kno…
Yamaha CS2X - FP User's review
FIlters can't screech that well and synthesis ain't too strong. Envelope generators makes so little difference to the sound, and the layers are hopeless. I'll rather say it's ok! Can't stand the litt…
Roland XP 60 - FP User's review
I am very satisfied with the features it has. 16 track sequencer (MRC Pro), 16-part multitimbral, 64 voice polyphony,onboard effects, groove quantize, RPS, four wave expansion slots for JV series exp…
Roland XP-30 - FP User's review
Pretty good features--BUT they only hold 2 expansion cards! That's a negative! Price paid $900.00 UTILIZATION Pretty easy to use but can be complicated for a beginner-def. not a newbie synth. Bu…
Roland XP-50 - FP User's review
As a sound module nothing is missing, there are some filters, effects, etc. on it, but you have to go thu menues and mess with numerical values, which takes a lot of time, so that would b nice to hav…
Roland JX-305 - wytlyt's review
translatedDerived from the keyboard groove box 5 octave keyboard, controllers adsr cutoff + resonance depth arpeggiator with realtime editing 1 output stereo audio + midi in / out / thru many sounds that ar…
Yamaha DX1 - Docteur Frog's review
translatedKeyboard 6 Octaves - FM synthesizer - First Station synthesis developed by Yamaha in 1981 which was then available in several versions with DX5 and DX7. FYI, one group is still running with: Say S. …
GEM S2 - Anonyme's review
translatedSee General Appreciation. UTILIZATION See General Appreciation. SOUNDS See General Appreciation. OVERALL OPINION Excellent keyboard (especially since you can find the 6000F was used, I bo…
Korg M1 - odhooghe's review
translatedSee Overall Opinion. UTILIZATION See Overall opinion. SOUNDS See Overall Opinion. OVERALL OPINION Released in 1988, the M1 is the the world's best selling "synth". This commercial …