Vintage Synthesizers

Analog and digital synths, drum machines, samplers, and electronic instruments. Specs, history, and collector guides.

Browse by Brand

• Access — Virus series virtual analog
• AMS — British studio processors
• ARP — Odyssey, 2600, and the American analog legacy
• Buchla — West Coast modular synthesis
• Casio — CZ series and affordable phase distortion
• Clavia — Nord Lead virtual analog
• E-mu — Emulator samplers and Proteus sound modules
• Ensoniq — Mirage, ESQ-1, and affordable digital
• Eventide — Harmonizer effects processors
• Fairlight — The CMI that started sampling
• Farfisa — Italian combo organs
• Hammond — Tonewheel organs and the sound of rock
• Hohner — Clavinet and beyond
• Korg — MS-20, Polysix, M1, and beyond
• Lexicon — Studio reverb legends
• Moog — Where synthesis began
• Oberheim — OB-Xa, Matrix-12, and poly analog warmth
• PPG — Wave series wavetable synthesis
• Rhodes — The electric piano that defined jazz-funk
• Roland — Jupiter, Juno, TR-808, and the sounds that defined electronic music
• Sequential Circuits — The Prophet-5 and the birth of MIDI
• Vox — Continental organs
• Wurlitzer — The other electric piano