80’s synth

The analog sound produced by the oscillators differently controlled by the internal circuitry have marked and continue to mark an era that it seems we do not want or cannot forget

Thanks to the use above all by English and German bands, Synths with names that recalled space travel (Juno, Jupiter, Saturn, etc…) formed what we now very generically call Synth Pop

In reality these instruments were able to create a new sound for the time which had as its aim not only to imitate real instruments (to understand what we can define as real and not) but above all to define new standards and new soundscapes that recalled precisely the avant-garde and the breaking of classical patterns

Although at the beginning of the 90s for a fairly long period the world seemed to have forgotten the importance of an analog circuit (to replace it with a digital emulation); today these objects can cost almost as much as a used car, this is because the technological limits in the original circuitry formed a unique and recognizable sound full of small defects and imperfections that actually please the human ear much more than a cold and aseptic digital reproduction.

Not all the instruments of this period were purely analogue like those of the previous decade but the well-balanced and equipped combination of analogue and digital probably led, without the creators’ knowledge, to the generation of a sound spectrum which perhaps out of melancholy is used massively today..