Electronic music and synthesizers are two things I’ve been slowly getting into as a musician lately. While I’ve always been a fan of electronic music, I’ve never made any real effort to use the only synth I’ve had for a while, the Alesis Micron. We’ve used it in my band but it’s been more than a year since it’s been used in a live setting.

With my recent upgrade to Logic Studio, my access to software synths has greatly increased and I’ve been using an M-Audio Oxygen 49 MIDI keyboard at home. I really enjoy the variety of tones in Logic but feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of what is available. Slowly but surely, as they say…

The Museum of Soviet Synthesizers Web site is an interesting look at a somewhat bygone era of analog synths. Browsing the directory, there are a wide variety of sound clips from most of these synths, and, for someone who is rather new to making electronic music, it’s rather ear-catching to hear some of the similarities between these relics and the tones available in a software recording program. What I find most interesting is that there are bound to be plenty of electronic music fans and musicians who have no idea that such hardware was being made in Russia at probably the same time the European or American equivalent was being made. No doubt that most of the featured synths on this site are ones that many musicians would kill for these days based on nostalgia and rarity alone.

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