Vintage Synth Explorer

The description of this synth on this site needs a serious update.

This is one of the best under rated synths EVER,,there are to differnt sound between the black and gold one,and the red and black one..The black and gold one sound like MOOG,because of the filters,and the other one sound like ARp..There both GREAAAAAAtt
tony cromie

Just got repaired! I missed the punchiness and precision of the envelopes, the massive resonance (the last upper quarter of the Q slider it's ALL feedback!) and noise source w/which you can built nice kicks, percussions and the multiple modulations. Defining it a "single VCO" is kinda reductive, because it has 2 different waveforms + noise mixer and lots of modulation possibilities. I bought it many years ago from a collector which offered me, as an alternative for the same price, a Yamaha CS15D. I took the Axxe because the YAmaha was modified and I wanted a clean, original analogue. Well I certainly did the right choice afterall. This "little tiger" It's all over my production! Cheers.

When I was a teenager, I found one of these laying at the curb with someone's trash. I didn't know jack about synths. I plugged it in eventually and it just made some crackles. I took the hood off and saw that there were a few places where the wiring needed repaired. A little solder and blam-o! My bud busted out his 606, and we hooked it into the AAXE. Never was the same person again. Whoever left that thing, 1. Thanx and 2. Sorry about YOUR luck. Sad shame though, don't have it anymore. Looking at the pic just makes me want to build something as phat as this thing is. very 8-bit, but very versitile, especially when triggered with external midi. DA**.. miss that thing.

I have a mk1 (the black and gold ver not pictured.) the machine was given to me broken and I had to fix it and let me tell you it was well worth it, the sound is classic old 70's analog gold... all you need is some ext. fx. and BANG you got Blade runner sweep sounds, fat bass crazy leads or just great beep sounds. The axxe mk1 as I find out has a moog octave filter in it. ( I heard arp got sued by moog for this but I'm not sure if thats true.) I've been running other synths in to it and this were this machine is heaven sent. Digital becomes analog! When analog is getting further and further from a poor mans hands, synths like this are a clear choice.