Yamaha DJX Mk1 I cannot say anything bad about this machine - it almost lacks nothing unless you are a home organist looking for auto-RHUMBA arrangements. The DJX is full of rave and electro type rhythms...
MELOS Tape-based Echo Chamber The MELOS Echo Chamber uses tapes to create echos - there is only one tape head and the tape is a long loop inside a cassette rather like the old BETAMAX video tapes - the point...
Yamaha PSR-170 I didn't expect to get so many features in a keyboard with such a low numeric ranking,but this one didn't fail to impress me. It has full size keys,LCD display.MIDI IN and OUT,a full complement...
Yamaha PSS480/580 The Yamaha PSS580 is pretty much exactly the same as the 480 as far as I can tell apart from colouration.I had hold of a 480 first,and got the 580 because the rubber pads which control...
Maplin Echorder E444 The Maplin Echorder is an analogue delay-line system which means it uses digital chips to process the sound in an analogue fashion using the bucket brigade delay line system (BBD)-...
CASIO CZ-1000 The CASIO CZ-1000 and it's smaller playmate the CZ-101,which is a mini-keys version - both use PHASE Distortion synthesis - this is often traded as "rather like Yamaha DX",but it is a...
CASIO CZ230s The CZ230s is rather a strange amalgam and as an oddity is rather sought after. It uses the same synthesizer engine as the other CZ range - using PHASE DISTORTION as the means of synthesis....
Casio SZ1 The SZ1 is the complementary sequencer for the RZ1 drum machine and CZ series synths,as such I found it quite a crude affair,coming as it does in a rectangular plastic box,showing no signs of the...