Models

8 models

  • Yamaha CS-70M

    CS Series analog synthesizer

    Japan

    A Yamaha CS Series synthesizer introduced in 1981 with auto-tune and a built-in sequencer.

  • Technical line drawing of Akai AX60

    Akai AX60

    Analogue synthesizer

    Synthesizer · Japan

    The Akai AX60, released in 1986, is a six-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer with a slider-based interface that could interface with Akai's samplers, offering warm analog sounds with MIDI control.

  • Realistic Concertmate MG-1

    Synthesizer model

    Synthesizer · United States

    The Realistic Concertmate MG-1 is an analog synthesizer built by Moog Music and sold through Radio Shack in the early 1980s under its Realistic brand. A consumer-oriented instrument, it offered genuine Moog circuitry—including the Moog filter—at a low price.

  • Moog Source

    Digitally controlled analog monophonic synthesizer with patch memory

    Synthesizer · United States

    The Moog Source, released in 1981, is a monophonic analog synthesizer notable for its flat membrane control panel and for being the first Moog synth with patch memory. It offers two oscillators, the Moog filter, and a built-in sequencer.

  • Moog Liberation

    Keytar synthesizer

    Keyboard

    The Liberation is a strap-on keyboard synthesizer Moog introduced in 1980, one of the first keytars. Worn like a guitar, it combines monophonic and polyphonic sections with a guitar-style neck controller for pitch bend and modulation, freeing the player from a stationary keyboard.

  • Moog Opus 3

    Polyphonic ensemble keyboard (paraphonic multi-keyboard) designed by Herb Deutsch

    Keyboard

    The Opus 3 is an ensemble keyboard Moog released in 1980, designed by Herb Deutsch. It is an affordable divide-down instrument offering string, organ, and brass ensemble voices that can be mixed together, aimed at players wanting lush layered sounds without a large modular system.

  • Moog Rogue

    Monophonic analog synthesizer

    Synthesizer · United States

    The Moog Rogue is an inexpensive monophonic analog synthesizer released in 1981, with two oscillators and the Moog filter in a small, simple package aimed at beginners and bass duties.

  • Memorymoog

    1982 polyphonic analog synthesizer

    Synthesizer · United States

    The Memorymoog, released in 1982, was Moog's most ambitious polyphonic synthesizer, offering six voices each with three oscillators for a huge, lush sound. Powerful but initially troubled by tuning instability, it is now prized as one of the richest-sounding vintage analog polysynths.