Members paulo_ Posted January 21, 2012 Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 I was going over analog synths currently being made (or recently announced) in the lower price bracket and thought I'd make a list to keep track of all, now I'm posting it so you may enjoy it as well. These are good times to be into these things. Let me know if I left something out. Analogue Solutions: Station X - ~750USD - Patchable single osc mini synth, expandable by addition of stations y and q: Leipzig-S - ~1000USD - 2 OSC, FAT MOOG style synth with built in step sequencer: Arturia: Minibrute - ~550USD - Single osc mono, featuring waveform mixer, ultrasaw and metallizer waveshapers, "brute factor" filter feedback circuit, 2 oct aftertouch keyboard: Atomosynth: Koe Desktop - ~350USD - Peruvian single osc, vactrol filter monosynth: Doepfer: Dark Energy - ~650USD - Single osc desktop box with fast LFOs and copious modulation routings: DSI: Mopho - ~400USD - Yellow CEM based DCO mono from Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits fame, also available as a pricier knobby keyboard (~800 USD): Tetr4: ~800USD - 4 voices of Mopho: Evolver - Hybrid 2 DCO/2 Digital oscs desktop monosynth: EMW: Micromodular - Series of patchable pseudomodular casings from Brazil, with 5 fixed modules each - M1 is a full 2 osc monosynth voice at ~400USD, CV inputs only(no midi): P-synth-1 - ??USD (tba) - Single VCO desktop monosynth: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members paulo_ Posted January 21, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 Eowave Domino - ~350 usd - Single osc acidic mono: Koma - ~750USD - Single osc, mixable waveforms, 80's inspired bassline synth, featuring built-in sequencer: Futureretro: Revolution - ~750USD - Cool looking acid bassline synth with built-in sequencer: Korg: Monotrons, Monotribe - ~50, ~200USD - Analog toy synths from the Korg. Monotribe is easily hackable for midi: Macbeth: Micromac - No price yet and this won't be quite inexpensive, but it's supposed to be here somehow: MFB: Dominion-X - ~1000 usd - 3 osc, monosynth with patchpoints and patch memory, crazy filters, kitchen sink: Kraftzwerg - ~700USD - Semimodular version of the old Synth 2, 3 oscs, minimoog based with a few extras: Microzwerg - ~500USD - 2 osc, semimodular mono with dual multimode filters, uncanny feature/square inch ratio: Nanozwerg - ~250USD - Probably the cheapest proper analog in the world, single osc with sub, 2-pole multimode filter, speaks modular: Mode Machines: SL-1 - ~800USD - 2 osc desktop monosynth thing (assembled MFOS synthlab?): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members paulo_ Posted January 21, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 Moog: Slim phatty - ~800USD - 2 osc Moog brand monosynth module with patch memory: Minitaur - ~600 USD - The new Moog Taurus desktop bass module: Mutable Instruments: Shruthi-1 (honorable mention hybrid) - ~370USD - Digital monosynth with different analog filter board options, great sounds: PAiA: Fatman (kit) - ~250USD - Simple DIY 2 osc monosynth from PAIA: Tom Oberheim: SEM ~900-1200USD - reedition of the legendary Oberheim SEM, available options with MIDI, semimodular or both: Vermona: Mono Lancet - ~650USD - 2 Osc desktop synth with modular expander available separately in eurorack format: Waldorf: Pulse 2 - ~750USD?(tba) - 3 Osc desktop CGI rendering from Waldorf, supposed to work as 8 voice paraphonic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cresshead Posted January 21, 2012 Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 mopho keyboard around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members donaldcrunk Posted January 21, 2012 Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 wow great job guys. it's crazy seeing them all stacked up like that. can't wait until we can add something polyphonic to this list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members paulo_ Posted January 21, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 wow great job guys. it's crazy seeing them all stacked up like that. can't wait until we can add something polyphonic to this list! There is the Tetra, but I know what you mean. So far I've read MFB has a poly in the works in the dominion range. But I'm guessing it will cost well over 1k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stabby Posted January 22, 2012 Members Share Posted January 22, 2012 Does anyone know where all these analog synths are produced? Which ones are made in China? Not that I care, but I'd like to compare the price of those made in China to those made in Japan/Europe/US. I'm especially curious where the DSI Mopho and Arturia Minibrute are produced. I'm guessing that the Mopho is made in Germany and the Minibrute in China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cresshead Posted January 22, 2012 Members Share Posted January 22, 2012 dave smith instruments are put together in USA..where the electronics are 'made' not sure. waldorf is german...but again electronics may come from anywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members donaldcrunk Posted January 22, 2012 Members Share Posted January 22, 2012 when it comes to production of this stuff, it's most likely a case of a bunch of parts from China/Singapore/Taiwan being assembled @ company HQ by whatever company is producing the synth. to get something like this fully assembled overseas, it usually requires an actual trip by the manufacturers themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members paulo_ Posted January 26, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 26, 2012 I guess this is still in production by their website, not entirely sure though.... Spectral Audio: Neptune 2 - ~675USD - 3 osc rack mono. Quite cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TropicThink Posted January 26, 2012 Members Share Posted January 26, 2012 You guys rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Pigger Posted January 26, 2012 Members Share Posted January 26, 2012 Thanks for this thread, paulo! Might make good bathroom reading. Very useful for comparison's sake & future shopping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted January 27, 2012 Members Share Posted January 27, 2012 dave smith instruments are put together in USA..where the electronics are 'made' not sure. Manufactured in San Francisco, CA. I don't remember where, but I think I saw somewhere that they outsource the circuit board production to to another California-located company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cowby Posted January 27, 2012 Members Share Posted January 27, 2012 such a sweet post for a poor man like me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bernard Posted February 25, 2013 Members Share Posted February 25, 2013 The Waldorf Rocket synthesizer is expected to be available in March 2013 for 244 Euro ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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