Synthesizers began life as a way to electronically reproduce or recreate organic, acoustic sounds like pianos, stringed instruments,
It was in the mid to late 60’s and early 70’s that synthesizers made their way into popular music and became a staple of electronic musicians like Brian Eno,
By the mid to late 80’s Japanese Brands like Yamaha and Korg began to dominate the synthesizer market with new digital synthesizers like the Yamaha DX7 and Korg M1, while Roland
Recently there has been a rekindling of the big analog modular synths of days gone past through a new format called Eurorack. Eurorack synthesizers are essentially made up of many individual modules that all adhere to a special format called Eurorack started in the 90’s by Doepfer. Eurorack modules started out purely analog,