Brands-X/Y/Z

BA-1 is a modern re-imagination of a cultish 1982 analog synth that looked like a toy but sounded like a…

In the pile of vintage synthesizer brochures we just received we found this Yamaha “Producer Series” 12-page brochure from 1983….

This article was produced by Mark Jenkins for Synths & Software. The original article can be found here. Please note…

Had not seen this before. This picture of a Yamaha E70…with built in SY2 and SGX CONTROLLER, showed up on…

This review of the Yamaha SK 30 symphonic ensemble was published in International Musician (UK Version) May 1981. We have…

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company released an early commercially produced drum machine called the Sideman in 1959. It was an “electro-mechanical”…

In our archives we found a great advertisement from Yamaha, covering the CS-40M, CS-10 and CS-5. These adverts were published…

We found this extended brochure on Yamaha Digital Instruments. In these years the FM synthesis was key in the Yamaha…