Models
10 models
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Arturia MicroFreak
Synthesizer model
Synthesizer · France
The Arturia MicroFreak, released in 2019, is a hybrid synthesizer pairing a versatile digital oscillator (with many synthesis models) and an analog filter, played from a distinctive touch-plate keyboard. Its modulation matrix, sequencer, and affordable price made it a popular experimental instrument.
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Arturia Freak Series
Family of Arturia experimental hybrid synthesizers
Synthesizer · France
The Arturia Freak series is the company's line of compact experimental hybrid synthesizers, combining digital oscillator engines with analog filtering. It includes the MicroFreak and the dual-engine MiniFreak.
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Ensoniq ESQ Series
Family of Ensoniq digital/analog hybrid synthesizers
Synthesizer · United States
The Ensoniq ESQ family comprises the company's late-1980s digital/analog hybrid synthesizers, beginning with the ESQ-1 and continuing with the SQ-80. They combined digitally sampled and synthetic waveforms with analog-style four-pole low-pass filtering and an onboard sequencer.
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Novation Peak & Summit Series
Family of Novation New Oxford Oscillator polysynths
Synthesizer · United Kingdom
The Novation Peak and Summit form a family of hybrid polyphonic synthesizers built around the FPGA-generated New Oxford Oscillators (offering analogue-style, wavetable, and FM oscillator behavior) feeding an analog state-variable filter per voice. The desktop Peak provides eight voices; the keyboard Summit doubles this to a bi-timbral sixteen voices.
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Arturia MiniFreak
Six-voice hybrid synthesizer
Synthesizer · France
The Arturia MiniFreak, released in 2022, is a six-voice hybrid synthesizer with two digital sound engines offering 31 oscillator modes, paired with a polyphonic analog state-variable resonant filter. It runs in six-voice polyphonic, twelve-voice paraphonic, unison, or mono modes on a 37-note slim keybed, with onboard effects and a sequencer.
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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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Ensoniq ESQ-1
61-key, velocity sensitive, eight-note polyphonic and multitimbral synthesizer
Synthesizer · United States
The Ensoniq ESQ-1, released in 1986, is an eight-voice multitimbral hybrid synthesizer combining digital waveform oscillators with analog filters and a capable built-in sequencer, offering a lot of power at an affordable price.
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Roland JD-XA
Hybrid analog and digital synthesizer
Synthesizer · Japan
The Roland JD-XA, released in 2015, is a crossover synthesizer that combines a true analog voice section with a digital synthesis section, allowing the two to be layered or used independently. It targets producers who want both analog warmth and digital versatility in one keyboard.
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EDP Wasp
Analogue music synthesiser
Synthesizer · United Kingdom
The EDP Wasp, released in 1978 by Electronic Dream Plant, is a compact, inexpensive hybrid synthesizer with digital oscillators and an analog filter. Its distinctive black-and-yellow touch keyboard and aggressive sound made it a memorable and influential budget instrument.
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Sequential Pro 3
Hybrid mono/paraphonic synthesizer
Synthesizer · United States
The Sequential Pro 3, introduced in 2020, is a hybrid monophonic and three-note paraphonic synthesizer combining two analog voltage-controlled oscillators with a DSP-based digital wavetable oscillator. It features three switchable filters - a four-pole Prophet-6 low-pass, a four-pole transistor ladder, and a two-pole OB-6 state-variable filter - plus a deep 16-track sequencer. A Pro 3 SE version adds a tilt-up panel and walnut trim.