When early synthesisers started to become an affordable prospect, it didn’t take long to work out that there was limited choice in the market – and they were all monophonic! Polyphonic synthesisers were still some way off, or exceptionally expensive to purchase, so it was left to the synthetic pioneers to create chords using more than one oscillator, using their mono-machines.
This was a charge firmly led by the classic Minimoog. Bedecked with three oscillators, it was possible to create a triad and play it up and down the keyboard. Just listen to, by German pioneers Kraftwerk, for one of the first examples of this. But this is still a technique very much in use today; bands such as Hot Chip are well acquainted with
