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Synth Timeline

The old interactive timeline can be found here (no longer updated).

1997

Waldorf Microwave II

1998

BitHeadz Retro AS-1

BitHeadz Unity DS-1

Clavia Nord Modular

Doepfer Drehbank

E-mu Audity 2000

Ensoniq ASR-X Pro

Future Retro 777

JoMoX AirBase 99

KeyFax Phat-Boy

Moog Etherwave Theremin

Moog MF-101 Lowpass Filter

Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator

Novation SuperNova

Prosoniq Orange Vocoder

Quasimidi Sirius

Spectral Audio Syntrack

Technosaurus Cyclodon

VAZ Synths VAZ Modular

Waldorf Microwave XT

1999

Bomb Factory Studios Moogerfoogers

Clavia Nord Micro Modular

Creamware Pulsar

E-mu Proteus 2000

Electrix Pro Filter Factory

Electrix Pro Warp Factory

Elektron SidStation

Korg ElecTribe A (EA-1)

Korg ElecTribe R (ER-1)

Korg KAOSS Pad (KP1)

Moog MF-103 12-Stage Phaser

Native Instruments Reaktor

Quasimidi PolyMorph

Red Sound Systems DarkStar

Spectral Audio Neptune

Waldorf Microwave XTk

2000

Access Virus TDM

Alesis airSynth

Alesis Andromeda A6

Analogue Systems RS-Integrator

Applied Acoustics Tassman

BOSS DR-202 Dr. Groove

BOSS SP-202 Dr. Sample

E-mu Planet Earth

E-mu Virtuoso 2000

E-mu Xtreme Lead-1

Encore Electronics Knobby

Frostwave Resonator

GForce Software M-Tron

Image Line FL Studio

Korg ElecTribe S (ES-1)

Metasonix TS-21 HellFire

Metasonix TS-22 Pentode FilterBank

Moog CP-251 Control Processor

Moog MF-104 Analog Delay

Native Instruments Absynth

Native Instruments B4

Native Instruments Dynamo

Native Instruments Pro-52

Native Instruments Pro-Five

Propellerhead Software Reason

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