Synthesizer

:The term "synthesizer" is also used to mean frequency synthesizer, an electronic system found in communications. This article is about the musical instrument.

Classic synthesizer designs

This is intended to be a list of classic instruments which marked a turning point in musical sound or style, potentially worth an article of their own. They are listed with the names of performers or styles associated with them. For more synthesizer models see :Category:Synthesizers.

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• Moog modular synthesizer systems (Wendy Carlos, Tomita, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Beatles)
• Mellotron (Ray Buttigieg, Tangerine Dream, Moody Blues, Barclay James Harvest, T-Rex, The Beatles)
• ARP 2600 (The Who, Stevie Wonder, Weather Report, Edgar Winter, Jean-Michel Jarre)
• ARP Odyssey (Ultravox, Styx, Herbie Hancock)
• Minimoog (Rush),(Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Stereolab, Devo, Ray Buttigieg)
• EMS VCS3 (Roxy Music, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, BBC Radiophonic Workshop)
• Fairlight CMI (Jean-Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Peter Gabriel, Pet Shop Boys)
• NED Synclavier (Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Laurie Anderson)
• Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 (Berlin, Phil Collins, The Cars, Steve Winwood)
• E-mu Emulator (The Residents, Depeche Mode, Deep Purple, Genesis)
• Roland Jupiter-8 (Duran Duran, OMD)
• PPG Wave (Rush),(The Fixx, Thomas Dolby)
• Roland TB-303 (Techno, Acid House)
• Roland D-50 ((Jean-Michel Jarre, Enya)
• WaveFrame AudioFrame (Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder)
• Yamaha DX7 (Steve Reich, The Cure, Brian Eno)
• Yamaha VL-1
• Yamaha SHS-10 One of the first "keytars" from the 1980s
• Korg M1
• Korg Karma
• Roland JP-8000 (The synthesizer that defined modern trance music; the warm sawtooth lead sound heavily used in modern trance music originates from the JP-8000.)
• Clavia Nord Lead (The Prodigy, The Weathermen,Jean Michel Jarre) The Nord Lead was the first modern analog modelling synthesizer using digital circuitry to emulate analog circuits
• Oberheim OB-Xa (Rush), (Styx, Supertramp, Van Halen)
• Lyricon First mass-produced wind synthesizer. (Michael Brecker, Tom Scott, Chuck Greenberg, Wayne Shorter)
• Alesis Andromeda A synthesizer with modern digital control of fully analog sound producing circuitry