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The first commercial FM synthesizer was the Yamaha GS1, released in 1980, [5] which was expensive to manufacture due to its integrated circuit chips. [4] At the same time, Yamaha was developing the means to manufacture very-large-scale integration chips. These allowed the DX7 to use only two chips, compared to the GS1's 50. [4]
First duophonic synthesizer (capable of playing two notes at once) [5] 1975 Moog Music: Polymoog [17] 1969 EMS: VCS3 [5] 1976 Yamaha: CS-80 [5] 1978 Korg: MS-20 [5] 1981 PPG: Wave [5] 1991 Korg: 01/W [18] 1997 Propellerhead Software: ReBirth: One of the first software synthesizers that could be played in real time via MIDI [19] 1996 Roland: JP-8000
The Yamaha CS-80 is an analog synthesizer introduced by Yamaha Corporation in 1977. [2] It supports true 8-voice polyphony, with two independent synthesizer layers per voice each with its own set of front panel controls, in addition to a number of hardwired preset voice settings and four parameter settings stores based on banks of subminiature potentiometers (rather than the digital ...
The OB-Xa was the synthesizer that provided the main part of Van Halen's 1984 single "Jump". [4] Many other artists used the OB-Xa during the 1980s and 1990s, including New Order, [4] The Carpenters, The Police, Queen, Rush, Rod Stewart, Prince, Miles Davis, Simple Minds and Gary Numan.
In 2011, three decades after the release of the original Jupiter series, Roland released the fully digital Jupiter-80 and Jupiter-50 synthesizers as successors to the 1980s originals. They were in turn succeeded by the Jupiter-X and Jupiter-Xm in 2019. [3] A Jupiter-8 plug-out was included already installed on the Roland System-8 synthesizer ...
Prior to the release of the Juno-6, polyphonic synthesizers were expensive and subject to tuning issues caused by the components in synthesizers' oscillator circuits being sensitive to temperature. At the time, Roland's flagship synthesizer was the Jupiter-8, released in 1981, which cost $5,000 (equivalent to nearly $18,000 in 2024). [ 4 ]
The Moog Liberation was one of the first commercially produced "keytar" synthesizers, released in 1980 by Moog Music.The instrument is comparable to the Realistic Concertmate MG-1 and the Moog Rogue, but it is most closely related to the Moog Prodigy; however, as a keytar, the Liberation was designed to be played in the same posture as one would play a guitar.
In 1978, Sequential released the Prophet-5, the first programmable polyphonic synthesizer, which was widely used in the music industry. In the 1980s, Sequential was important in the development of MIDI, a technical standard for synchronizing electronic instruments. In 1987, Sequential went out of business and was purchased by Yamaha.