Analog Synthesizers: Understanding, Performing, Buying, 2nd Edition

Appendix A Classic instruments: specifications and values

The table here covers classic analog instruments which are now up to 50 years old or even slightly more, the majority of them pre-MIDI. It doesn’t attempt to include most generally reliable later midrange MIDI/digital instruments, such as the Korg MS2000/R, Access Virus B, Novation Nova and Xiosynths, Yamaha CS2X and Roland XP10/early Fantoms, which are all readily available in relatively large numbers on the second user market, usually reliable, and an unproblematic purchase, or modern instruments still in production, such as those from Arturia, Roland Boutique and Korg re-issue keyboards, Novation’s Peak module, Dave Smith Instruments Evolver and Prophet series, Studio Electronics ...