Features News Pro Audio From Blade Runner to Africa: it’s time to celebrate the Yamaha CS-80 by Dan Shaw The Yamaha CS-80 is a glorious mess of contradictions, entering and exiting production within four short years, but still changing the course of history with its sound. …
Features Pro Audio The Roland Jupiter-8: the fattest synth in the solar system by Dan Shaw If it isn’t the fattest synth in history, it’s damn near close. The Roland Jupiter-8 dished up rich polyphony and represented the peak of the analog craft. In the 1970s…
Features Pro Audio Sequential Circuits Prophet 5: a new era for the analog polysynth by Dan Shaw In the ’70s, a new wave of synthesis made a significant impact on the audio world. There were two hot zones of innovation in this relatively new way of creating…