Casio Cz 1000 Plus A Ring

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Luscious pads, gorgeous brass, silky leads: Its all Oberheim and its all here.

As the prices of vintage synthesizers climb ever higher, wouldnt it be great to be able to get largely the same feature set of a desired synth without the eye-watering price Were here to tell you that can (sometimes) be the case.

The rackmount was a popular format, although ironically what was meant to be the cheaper option (keybeds are expensive) have become expensive collectors items in their own right due to scarcity.

With a novel new form of synthesis that combined sampled transients with early analog modeling, the D-50 was capable of everything from bread-and-butter keyboard sounds to lush, evolving soundscapes.

As you might expect, it still commands a robust price tag to this day.

Also worth looking into are the D-5, with its arpeggiator, the D-20 and its sequencer, and the D-110 rack unit, which is multitimbral.

The DX7 and its offspring consistently occupied synth bestseller lists, and if you couldnt afford the flagship model, you could be sure of finding something to fit your budget that maybe was not quite as good but still capable of FM synthesis.

In 1985, Yamaha released the DX100, a diminutive four-operator synth that has recently become a collectors machine thanks to its association with Detroit techno (and Roger Troutman ).

Despite having the same sounds (including the Solid Bass preset), as well as adding chorus and the ability to layernot to mention 61 full-size keysit languishes in obscurity.

Released in 1985, this single-oscillator analog polysynth has become a must-have machine for a number of reasons, but mainly because it sounds amazing.

Despite the fact that the voice chips will eventually have to be repaired (or replaced with clones), and despite the inevitable cost associated with this, prices continue to climb.

While most fall into the rare, so expensive category, the HS-60 home version is something of a sleeper.

Although it loses the 106s good looks in favor of something you might see on top of your uncles organ, inside its all Juno-106.

It also appeared around the same time as MIDI, which meant that its innards could be jammed inside a little box, sold without a keyboard, and called an expander.

Well, almost. The TX7 doesnt allow editing from the front panel, meaning all programming has to be done via external MIDI.

At the time this was nigh-on impossible, but these days, thanks to the proliferation of editors, as well as softsynths like Dexed, its easy enough to work with.

Granted, it doesnt look as cool as a full DX7, but its certainly a good deal.

It did this with Casios consumer keyboards and also with a little synthesizer company called Moog.

Casio Cz 1000 Plus A Ring

It featured the two-oscillator monophonic analog architecture that would eventually be released by Moog as the Rogue, but also offered a polyphonic, organ-like divide-down oscillator section, plus a ring modulator.

Beware when buying an MG-1, though, as many units suffer from the polyurethane insulation having melted over time.

In 1987, Oberheim stubbornly released a 1-U rack version of its lovely Matrix-6, bucking the digital trend and staying with what had made it famous: analog.

Dubbed the Matrix-1000, it was intended as a preset version of the former synth and so came loaded with (you guessed it) 1000 presets.

Although thought of as a preset player, it does indeed have full programmability, including the mod matrix of the 6.

And, thanks to modern editors and new hardware programmers, the full functionality of it is just waiting to be unleashedand at an affordable price.