Vintage Gear

We found a Moog product brochure from the year 1964…indeed! At that time the Moog…

Note: the Original manual can be found below the text and pictures. (Quite rare) Analogue…

Note: below the text and pictures you’ll find the original DIY article. Powertran’s top of…

The Powertran Transcendent 2000 was an English synthesizer designed by Tim Orr. The design and…

Note: the Böhm Soundlab manual is included in this article – you’ll find it at…

Regularly this picture of Jean Michel Jarre, in his early studio, shows up in newsgroups…

On the Brittannica.com website you can find a (short but) nice introductory video about the…

In our archives we found a great advertisement from Yamaha, covering the CS-40M, CS-10 and…

Beginning of 1980’s the Syntauri corporation produced one of the first software synths, based on…

As you may know, Bob Moog lost his company somewhere in the 70’s. But Bob…

This rack synthesizer module was introduced in 1984 by Crumar (Italy). Although the brochure reads…

Author: Matthias BeckerLanguage: GermanPublished: 1990, Musik Media VerlagISBN: 3927954012 Beautifully-produced second volume of Matthias Becker’s…

Sam Battle, known for his (enthusiastic) series on modular synths (under the name ‘Look mum…

I cannot remember ever seeing this synth in the real world. Did it exist? Has…

I found this original Moog Sonic Six brochure from 1972 in my archives. Nice features…

Nils Frahm is -or should we say ‘was’- a user of the Elektor Formant (DIY)…