Famous Synths – Part 1
Here’s a guide of what I feel are the ten most influential and important synthesizers in music history (in chronological order). While I do not necessarily endorse these particular synths, they undoubtedly left a lasting impact in the synthesizer industry.
Moog MiniMoog (1970): The one that started them all. Although not exactly a super-affordable synth, the MiniMoog put throbbing bass, screaming melodies, and fancy SFX in a keyboard players hands. Sitting in a nice wooden case with a foldable lid (a design that never seemed to catch on), it frequently went out of tune, and didn’t have patch storage, or a dedicated LFO – but who cares; we were all over the moon back then weren’t we?
ARP Odyssey (1972): The controversial rival to the MiniMoog, controversial of course because it stole the original 4-pole Moog filter design, the ARP engineers soon completed work on their own 2-pole filter, and, combined with a duophonic ability the Odyssey gave players an alternative synth...