cover feature / the great synth showdown
Of course, all synths we use at Computer Music are polysynths at heart, simply because computer processing is now up to speed to deliver as many notes as you can physically play for any plugin you load up. However, you can trace a lot of our current synth favourites – most in fact – back to a time when we weren’t as spoilt as we are now. A period when you could only play one note on any synth at a time. And they were glorious times.
The monosynth, i.e. any synth that can only play one note at any one time, was first developed
