MATRIXSYNTH: AKAI AX73 Programmable Polyphonic Synthesizer


Saturday, November 09, 2013

AKAI AX73 Programmable Polyphonic Synthesizer

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"This was produced at a time when the Yamaha DX7 ruled the roost in the digital world and Roland's Jupiter held sway in the analogue world. Akai were working with Roger Linn on the Linn Drum as well as developing their early samplers [This has a sampler socket which apparently means you could control the S-612 and later Samplers from the keyboard] It's an analogue synth but digitally controlled [on board or over MIDI] and it can make some really fat sounds. The pads are smooth and blend well in a mix, or you can pile all the oscillators on top of each other in mono-mode to get a screaming lead or full-bodied bass out of it . There are various demos of AX73's on youtube if you want an idea of what it can do in the right hands..."


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