MATRIXSYNTH: Akai AX80


Sunday, June 22, 2008

Akai AX80

flickr by Ricardipus

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"A digital-analogue hybrid synthesizer from the mid-1980s. For those so inclined, it had weedy sounding oscillators, deadly fat 24dB/octave Curtis analogue low-pass filters, a raft of LFOs, and a rather dodgy keyboard action. I bought mine new. Loved it then, love it now.

Some examples of this and other electronic junk from the 80s and 90s can be heard on the audio clips at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar of this site."

via Ricardipus in the comments of this post on the Sequential Circuits Split 8.
Posted by matrix at 6/22/2008 12:38:00 AM
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1 comment:

  1. Zkauker6/22/08, 7:10 PM

    anyone know where to get one of these fixed? I miss mine since it lost a voice and the prgm change button doesn't work

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