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The magazine for producers, engineers & recording musicians | 09 February 2010


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Elektron SFX-6 MonoMachine

It’s silver, it’s Swedish, and it’s designed like no other instrument you’ve ever seen. Mark Jenkins gets to grips with the latest synth from Elektron...

Manufacturer: Elektron
Website: http://www.monomachine.com

The MonoMachine is that great rarity: a hardware synthesizer design from a small, independent manufacturer. It’s a sad fact that it has traditionally been difficult for small companies to successfully develop and market modern synthesizer products. Outside the big league of Japanese and American manufacturers (plus scattered success stories such as Novation in the UK and Clavia in Scandinavia), there remain precious few survivors in a field now littered with casualties (some of them quite major) such as ARP, Moog and Sequential from the USA, and PPG, EDP and Quasimidi from Europe.

Score: 6

This review first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 13
Filed under Hardware, Hardware Instruments, Synths

 

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