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[MIN] SYNTH SHOOT-OUT

The history of the synth has been what you might call ‘a bit of a rollercoaster’, from the expensive hardware beginnings through the analogue heydays of the ’70s and early ’80s when prices went from the ridiculous to the sublime, through to what some might call, ‘the dark days of digital’ in the late ’80s and ’90s. This was when synths became so unintuitive and menus so deep and complicated, that the whole hardware format came into

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