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One notable early polyphonic synthesizer, the Prophet 5 released in 1978, had five-voice polyphony. Another notable polyphonic synth, the Yamaha CS-80 released in 1976, had eight-voice polyphony, [20] as did the Yamaha GX-1 with total 18 voice polyphony, released in 1973. [21] Six-voice polyphony was standard by the mid-1980s.
The Oberheim Polyphonic Synthesizer is a series of analog music synthesizers that was produced from 1975 to 1979 by Oberheim Electronics. Developed by Tom Oberheim , they were the first production synthesizers capable of playing chords .
Korg Minilogue – A programmable four-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer with a built in sequencer and delay effect. Korg Volca FM – three-voice polyphonic digital FM synthesizer. Korg PA4X ORIENTAL – KORG's flagship Professional Arranger Workstation, from Western to Oriental: Arabic, Persian, Turkish – the Oriental version delivers.
The Oberheim OB-8 is a subtractive analog synthesizer launched by Oberheim in early 1983 and discontinued in 1985. As the fourth product in the OB-series of polyphonic compact synthesizers, the OB-8 was the successor to the OB-Xa. The number of production was about 3,000 units. [1]
The Juno-106 is a polyphonic synthesizer with six voices. It is an analog synthesizer but with digitally controlled oscillators and chorus effects. [2] [3] Whereas its predecessor, the Juno-60, has 56 patches, the Juno-106 has 128.
Roland JX-8P is a 61-key, velocity- and aftertouch-sensitive, six-note polyphonic, almost entirely analog synthesizer released by Roland in 1985. In a time of rising popularity of digital frequency modulation synthesizers, such as Yamaha DX7, JX-8P was marketed as the best of both worlds: while it was possible to create classic analog synth sounds, several new modulation parameters and ...
Early synthesizers were monophonic, meaning they could only play one note at a time. Some of the earliest commercial polyphonic synthesizers were created by the American engineer Tom Oberheim, [10] such as the OB-X (1979). [6] In 1978, the American company Sequential Circuits released the Prophet-5, the first fully programmable polyphonic ...
The polyphonic features of this synthesizer are of particular interest as polyphony was rare in synthesizers of the time. The square-wave based polyphony section is described as a "cheesy organ sound" [6] by some, and well-used by others. Since the polyphony section is independently tunable, it can function as a rudimentary third oscillator ...