via this auction"Manufactured and sold for the Japanese market, this was a low cost alternative to the many monophonic synth's that were so popular at the time. This was Technics dipping their toes into the synthesizer market at home in Japan first. Obviously the SY1010 never became a classic and Korg and Roland went on and changed the music world with their own synthesizer offerings. It was a powerful and capable little mono synth in it's own right in any case, although it was not heavily marketed apparently though and as well being manufactured by a company more known for home stereos and turntables. So it was that the Technics SY1010 remains the Technics company's only foray into the analog synthesizer market. Some years later they did produce a few different digital and sampling keyboards but this remains the only all analog musical instrument in the company's history."
They also did the WSA physical modelling synth.
