Models
70 models
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Roland TR-808
Analog drum machine
Drum machine · Japan
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is a programmable analog drum machine that Roland produced from 1980 to 1983. Its sounds are generated by analog circuitry rather than samples, giving it a distinctive booming kick, snappy snare, and sizzling cymbals and hi-hats. Commercially unsuccessful at launch, it became one of the most influential instruments in popular music, defining the low end of hip-hop, electro, and dance records and remaining a sought-after sound decades later.
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Yamaha WX5
Discontinued wind MIDI controller
Electronic wind instrument · Japan
A Yamaha wind MIDI controller with breath and lip sensing, selectable wind-instrument fingering modes, and MIDI/WX connections for external tone generators.
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Selmer Mark VI
Professional saxophone model family
Saxophone · France
The Selmer Mark VI is a professional saxophone family produced by Henri Selmer Paris from the mid-1950s into the mid-1970s in sizes from sopranino to bass. Prized for its tone, intonation, and ergonomics, it is among the most sought-after vintage saxophones.
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Mutable Instruments Plaits
Eurorack macro-oscillator module
Synthesizer module · France
A 12 HP Eurorack macro-oscillator module with sixteen synthesis models, CV control, dual outputs, and an internal low-pass gate.
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Yamaha DX7
Six-operator FM digital synthesizer
Synthesizer · Japan
Yamaha's landmark six-operator FM digital synthesizer, introduced in May 1983.
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Parker Fly Deluxe
Flagship carbon-exoskeleton electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
The flagship Parker Fly model, an ultralight electric guitar with a poplar body and neck sheathed in a carbon-glass exoskeleton and stainless steel frets. The Fly Deluxe pairs magnetic humbuckers with a blendable Fishman piezo system and Parker's flat vibrato; a 'refined' Deluxe was announced in 2003 for the line's tenth anniversary.
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Silvertone 1448
Student-model electric guitar family
Electric guitar · United States
An entry-level electric sold by Sears under the Silvertone name and built by Danelectro, famous for shipping in a carrying case with a built-in tube amplifier and speaker. It introduced countless American teenagers to electric guitar in the early 1960s.
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Oberheim OB-Xa
Polyphonic analog synthesizer
Synthesizer · United States
The Oberheim OB-Xa, released in 1980, is a polyphonic analog synthesizer with two oscillators per voice and the ability to split and layer sounds. Powerful and aggressive, its sound is famous from records such as Van Halen's 'Jump' and many other 1980s productions.
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Korg MS-20
Patchable semi-modular monophonic analog synthesizer
Synthesizer · Japan
The Korg MS-20, released in 1978, is a patchable semi-modular monophonic analog synthesizer with two oscillators and a distinctive dual filter capable of aggressive resonance. Its hands-on patch bay and external signal processor made it a hugely influential and enduring instrument.
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ALM Pamela's New Workout
Eurorack clock and modulation source
Eurorack module · United Kingdom
ALM Busy Circuits Pamela's New Workout is a Eurorack module that serves as a master clock and modulation source. It generates multiple clock divisions, gates, and CV/LFO outputs with per-output control, making it a popular timing and modulation hub in modular systems.
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Harmony Rocket
Hollow-body electric guitar family
Electric guitar
A hollow-body electric from the American budget maker Harmony, popular in the 1960s. With its thin archtop body and gold-foil-style pickups, the Rocket offered an affordable, characterful tone that has been rediscovered by modern players.
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Waldorf Microwave
Wavetable synthesizer module
Synthesizer · Germany
The Waldorf Microwave, released in 1989, is a wavetable synthesizer module that carried forward the technology of the PPG Wave. Its digital wavetable oscillators paired with analog filters produced distinctive evolving, metallic, and digital textures.
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Mutable Instruments Clouds
Eurorack texture synthesizer module
Eurorack module · France
Mutable Instruments Clouds is a Eurorack granular audio processor that captures incoming sound and reshapes it into evolving textures by playing back overlapping grains. A cult-favorite module, its open-source design spawned many variants.
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Taye StudioMaple
Maple kit with rail-mounted toms
Drum kit
StudioMaple pairs maple shells with Taye's SlideTrack mount, which carries a tom on a rail so it can be moved without changing angle — a small idea that solved a real setup problem.
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Ayotte Keplinger Snare
Hand-formed steel shell
Percussion · Canada
The Keplinger snares pair a hand-formed steel shell with Ayotte's hardware, and the combination — bright, cutting, and slow to choke — made them a studio fixture in the 1990s.
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Parker Fly
Carbon-and-glass Fly series of electric guitars
Electric guitar · United States
The Parker Fly series, designed by luthier Ken Parker and built from 1993, is a family of ultralight electric guitars whose wooden body and neck are wrapped in a stiff carbon-glass exoskeleton. Flys combine a thin, resonant body with stainless steel frets, a Fishman piezo system blendable with magnetic pickups, and a flat-mount vibrato. The series spans models such as the Fly Deluxe, Fly Classic, Fly Mojo, Fly Supreme and Fly Artist.
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Eventide H3000
Studio multi-effects processor
Recording equipment · United States
The Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer is a digital multi-effects processor introduced in 1987, offering pitch shifting, harmonizing, reverb, flanging, chorus, and other effects in a single 1U rackmount unit. It became a go-to studio effects processor during the late 1980s and 1990s for its unique-sounding pitch algorithms and versatile preset library. The H3000 is widely cited as influential on the sound of recordings from its era.
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Lexicon 480L
Studio digital reverb processor
Recording equipment · United States
The Lexicon 480L is a digital reverb and effects processor introduced in 1986, comprising a mainframe unit and a remote LARC controller. It offers a wide range of reverb algorithms alongside chorus, pitch shift, and other spatial effects, and was adopted as a studio standard across film scoring, pop, and rock production. The 480L remained in production for many years and its reverb programs appear on numerous landmark recordings.
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PANArt Hang
An instrument invented in 2000, and no longer made
Hand percussion · Switzerland
Two nitrided steel shells glued at the rim, hammered into a tuned central note and a ring of tone fields, played with the hands rather than sticks. PANArt built the Hang from 2000 to 2013, never in quantity and never to order, and every handpan since descends from it.
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Rickenbacker 4001
Electric bass guitar
Electric bass · United States
Rickenbacker's classic electric bass, the 4001 features through-body neck construction and a bright, cutting tone with strong treble definition. It was played by influential bassists including Paul McCartney, Chris Squire, and Geddy Lee.
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Brady Jarrah Block Snare
Australian hardwood, stave-built
Percussion · Australia
Brady's block-construction jarrah snares are built from vertical staves of Western Australian hardwood, producing an extremely dense shell with a high, hard crack. Production ended and the drums now trade well above their original prices.
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Epiphone G-400
Solid body electric guitar model
Electric guitar
Epiphone's version of the Gibson SG, the G-400 reproduces the thin double-cutaway mahogany body and twin humbuckers of the original at an accessible price. It is a popular gateway into the SG's lightweight, aggressive feel.
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Roland SH-101
Monophonic analog synthesizer
Synthesizer · Japan
The Roland SH-101 is a monophonic analog synthesizer released in 1982. Lightweight and battery-capable, it pairs a single oscillator and resonant filter with a built-in sequencer and arpeggiator, and an optional handgrip let it be worn like a keytar. Its punchy bass and lead sounds made it a fixture of acid, techno, and electro.
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Roland TR-909
Drum machine
Drum machine · Japan
The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, introduced in 1983, is a drum machine that combined analog-synthesized drum voices with sampled cymbals and hi-hats. It added MIDI and a refined step sequencer, and its punchy kick, snappy snare, and bright hats became foundational to house and techno.
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Roland TR-606 Drumatik
The analog kit built to keep time for the TB-303
Drum machine · Japan
The 606 was sold as the rhythm half of a two-box practice rig with the TB-303, and both were commercial disappointments. Its voices are thin analog approximations — a snare that is mostly noise, a kick with almost no body — and that thinness is exactly what acid and electro producers later wanted.
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Roland Jupiter-8
1981 polyphonic analog synthesizer
Synthesizer · Japan
The Roland Jupiter-8, introduced in 1981, is Roland's flagship eight-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer. With two oscillators per voice, versatile splits and layers, and patch memory, it delivered a bold, refined sound used across pop, film, and electronic music, and it remains one of the most coveted vintage polysynths.
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Parker Fly Mojo
All-mahogany Parker Fly model
Electric guitar · United States
A Parker Fly model with a solid mahogany body and neck and Seymour Duncan humbuckers, giving more low-end weight and warmth than the standard Fly while keeping the carbon-glass exoskeleton, Fishman piezo and Parker vibrato.
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Roland Juno-106
Programmable polyphonic analog synthesizer
Synthesizer · Japan
The Roland Juno-106, introduced in 1984, is a six-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer that became one of Roland's most popular instruments. It offers one digitally controlled oscillator per voice, a resonant analog filter, a famous chorus, and full MIDI implementation, and its accessible slider-based panel made it a studio staple.
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Epiphone Les Paul 100
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar
An entry-level Epiphone Les Paul aimed at beginners, offering the familiar single-cutaway body and dual-humbucker layout of the Les Paul at a low price. It is a common first electric guitar.
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Supro Belmont
Single-pickup Res-O-Glas solid-body electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
A single-pickup solid-body electric guitar from the American Valco-era brand Supro. Later examples used Valco's distinctive moulded 'Res-O-Glas' fibreglass body, giving the Belmont a light, resonant character and the mid-focused Supro tone prized by slide and blues players.
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Oberheim Matrix-12
Twelve-voice analog synthesizer with matrix modulation
Synthesizer · United States
The Oberheim Matrix-12, introduced in 1985, is a twelve-voice analog synthesizer with extensive digital modulation routing. Each voice provides two oscillators, a noise source, a fifteen-mode multimode filter, five envelopes, five LFOs, ramp and tracking generators, and a deep modulation matrix, on a 61-note keyboard. It is widely regarded as one of the most powerful analog polysynths ever built.
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Supro Ozark
Early single-pickup solid-body electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
One of the first solid-body electric guitars from the American Valco-era brand Supro, dating to the early 1950s. A compact single-cutaway solidbody with a single pickup, the Ozark is famous as the model on which a teenage Jimi Hendrix is said to have started, and its midrange-forward voice suited slide playing.
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Silvertone 1457
Two-pickup 'amp-in-case' student electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
A two-pickup version of Sears' famous 'amp-in-case' electric guitar set, sold under the Silvertone house brand and built by Danelectro. Introduced in 1964 to succeed the single-pickup 1448, it pairs a short-scale 18-fret slab body and twin lipstick pickups with a carrying case containing a built-in tube amplifier and speaker.
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Mutable Instruments Rings
Eurorack resonator module
Eurorack module · France
Mutable Instruments Rings is a Eurorack resonator module that uses physical-modeling synthesis to create plucked, struck, and bowed string- and bar-like tones. It can act as a resonant body for external sounds or as a standalone polyphonic voice.
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Oberheim OB-X
Programmable analog polyphonic synthesizer
Synthesizer · United States
The Oberheim OB-X, released in 1979, was Oberheim's first fully integrated programmable polyphonic synthesizer, available in four-, six-, or eight-voice configurations. It replaced the earlier stacked-SEM approach with internal discrete voice boards and patch memory, with two VCOs per voice and a discrete low-pass filter, and a 61-note keyboard.
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Höfner Club 40
Thin hollow-body electric guitar without soundholes
Electric guitar
A small, thin hollow-body electric guitar made by the German maker Höfner from the mid-1950s, built without soundholes. The Club series (Club 40, 50 and 60) was popular with British players in the early 1960s; John Lennon's first electric guitar was a Höfner Club 40 he bought in Liverpool in 1959.
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Akai EWI4000s
Electronic wind instrument controller
Electronic wind instrument · Japan
The Akai EWI4000s is an electronic wind instrument controller with a built-in analog-modeling synthesizer. Played with saxophone-like fingering and breath and bite sensors, it lets wind players perform expressive synthesizer lines.
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Teisco Spectrum
Offset electric guitar family
Electric guitar · Japan
A striking offset electric from the Japanese maker Teisco in the 1960s, the Spectrum is a cult favorite among collectors of vintage Japanese guitars. It is known for its bold styling and unconventional multi-pickup design.
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Ensoniq EPS
Performance sampling keyboard workstation
Sampler · United States
The Ensoniq EPS (Ensoniq Performance Sampler), released in 1988, is a polyphonic sampling keyboard with up to twelve to twenty voices depending on sample rate, a 61-note velocity- and aftertouch-sensitive keyboard, an onboard sequencer, and disk storage, designed as an affordable performance-oriented sampling workstation.
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Höfner President
Single-cutaway hollow-body archtop electric guitar
Electric guitar
A hollow-body archtop electric guitar made by the German maker Höfner, produced from the mid-1950s into the early 1970s. One of Höfner's best-known vintage electrics, it was offered in full-depth and thinline bodies and in non-cutaway and Florentine-cutaway forms, with pickups that evolved across the production run. George Harrison played a Höfner President early in his time with The Beatles.
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Ensoniq SQ-80
Eight-voice digital/analog hybrid synthesizer
Synthesizer · United States
The Ensoniq SQ-80, produced from 1988 to 1989, is an eight-voice 'cross-wave' digital/analog hybrid synthesizer and successor to the ESQ-1. It edits digital waveforms through analog-style four-pole low-pass filters, adds an expanded waveform set and polyphonic aftertouch on its 61-note keyboard, and includes an onboard sequencer.
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Parker Nitefly
Bolt-on Parker electric guitar with Fishman piezo
Electric guitar
A more affordable Parker electric guitar with a conventional bolt-on neck, offered with single-coil or humbucking pickups plus Parker's signature blendable Fishman piezo system. The Nitefly carries the brand's slim, ergonomic feel in a more traditional double-cutaway form.
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E-mu SP-1200
Sampling drum machine
Sampler · United States
The E-mu SP-1200, released in 1987, is a sampling drum machine that combined 12-bit sampling with an analog filter and a sequencer. Its gritty, crunchy sound and short sampling time shaped hip-hop production and remain prized by beatmakers.
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Jackson Pro Series KE3 Kelly
Explorer-style electric guitar model
Electric guitar · Indonesia
The Jackson Pro Series KE3 Kelly is an angular, Explorer-derived guitar with an alder body, a maple neck, a rosewood fingerboard, a 25.5-inch scale, two humbucking pickups, and a Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo, produced in Jackson's Pro Series during the 2000s.
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Akai MPC2000
MIDI production center sampler
Sampler · Japan
The Akai MPC2000, released in 1997, is a sampler-sequencer in the MPC family that became a workhorse of late-1990s hip-hop and electronic production, offering 16-bit sampling, pad-based programming, and expandable memory and storage.
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Höfner Galaxie
1960s solid-body electric guitar
Electric guitar
A solid-body electric guitar made by the German maker Höfner in the 1960s. Following Höfner's earlier V-series and Colorama solidbodies, the Galaxie sold well to aspiring electric players of the decade and is now a sought-after vintage piece.
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Harmony Stratotone
Early neck-through solid-body electric guitar
Electric guitar
An early American solid-body electric guitar from the Chicago maker Harmony, launched in 1952 - only two years after the Fender Broadcaster. The H44 Stratotone used a clever neck-through body with glued-on wings and a single pickup to keep costs down, and was played by Ritchie Valens and Carl Perkins.
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Oberheim Xpander
Six-voice analog synthesizer module with matrix modulation
Synthesizer · United States
The Oberheim Xpander, introduced in 1984, is a six-voice rack-format analog synthesizer module and the architectural sibling of the Matrix-12. Each voice offers two oscillators, fifteen filter modes, five LFOs, five DADSR envelopes, ramp and tracking generators, and a flexible modulation matrix, making it a benchmark of analog synthesis flexibility in a keyboardless module.
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Parker MaxxFly
Revised Fly-derived electric guitar (2010)
Electric guitar
Introduced in 2010, the MaxxFly is a Fly-derived Parker electric guitar with a revised, more conventional headstock and upper horn, standardized pickup cavities, a slightly thicker body and 22 frets. It was Parker's updated take on the carbon-reinforced Fly concept under U.S. Music Corp ownership.
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Ensoniq VFX
Twenty-one-voice wavetable synthesizer workstation
Synthesizer · United States
The Ensoniq VFX, released in 1989, is a 21-voice digital synthesizer workstation using PPG-style wavetable synthesis with 109 selectable waveforms per patch. It features a 61-note polyphonic-aftertouch keyboard, a high-quality onboard effects processor, and (in the VFX-SD) an integrated sequencer and disk storage.