In the early 80's all serious synthesizer manufacturers had to try hard to stay on the market after the release of the Prophet-5 synthesizer. The first attempt to grab his bite of the niche was made by Oberheim when he launched OB-X synthesizer, the...
The Kurzweil K2500X is a digital synthesizer and workstation produced by Kurzweil Music Systems. It was released in 1997 and was the flagship of the K2500 series of synthesizers. It features a 61-key velocity sensitive keyboard and has an onboard...
Black (well, gray at least) page in the history of Oberheim. This synthesizer is difficult to associate with Oberheim, for which there are a number of reasons: First, Tom Oberheim did not take any part in the development of this product. Second, this is...
Ketron XD9 was released in 2005. This synthesizer is an improved version of XD3: it has a 61-key keyboard, modulation wheels and 2 large built-in speakers. XD9 instrument has a 64-note polyphony. The front part of the device is divided into several...
E-50 synthesizer by Roland was released in 2007. It hides the sound core based on the Fantom-X series architecture. E-50 was designed to offer a massive set of functions: a 61-note keyboard features a 64-voice polyphony, a large selection of sounds...