Studio recording & dance music: Gear / synthesisers / sample synthesisers

The 90's studio synth workhorse. The Roland Super JV-1080 offers a bit of everything from great acoustic instrument impressions to analog synth sounding fare. 64 note poly &...

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Roland JD-800

The JD-800 was a flagship digital waveform synth made from 1991 to 1996 offering a very much electronic synth palette of sounds and which saw Roland return to a front panel layo...

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Roland M-VS1

Roland released a series of five Sound Expansion modules in 1995 using sounds from the Roland JV-80 expansion cards. This one is the Vintage Synth module which also has about 50...

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Roland M-DC1

Roland released a series of five Sound Expansion modules in 1995 using sounds from the Roland JV-80 expansion cards. This one is the Dance module which also has about 50 loops i...

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Yamaha CS1X

The CS1x appeared in 1996 costing a reasonable £599 GBP and was aimed squarely at the dance music market which meant this was Yamaha's first synth since the old days which...

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