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Synthesizers have been a major interest of mine since age 9 when my brother bought the Switched-On-Bach album. The cover had an amazing picture of a synthesizer and the music was captivating. Sadly, these costly machines were not accessible to mere mortals.

So, in 1977 at age 16 I built my first synthesizer from RadioShack parts and connected it to my home-brew CP/M computer.

Then in 1995 after a career in computers and robotics my interest reignited with Synthesizers.com to make modular synthesizers available to the masses. Here are some pieces of that story.

status History of Synthesizers.com by Roger Arrick
The History of Synthesizers.com
It's been an interesting journey from a hobby in the '70s to a full-blown company building modular synthesizers for the masses.
status Vintage Moog Modular Synthesizer with NYC SSN
Vintage Moog Modular with NYC SSN
Ever since the '90s I've seen pictures of Moog modules with a social security number engraved on it. I even bought a few of these items over the years. Now my curiosity has grown to uncover the history of this mystery system.
status Synthesizer Treasures
Synthesizer Treasures
Here are a few cool things I've collected over the many years of being a synthesizer enthusiast.
status ARP 2600 Synthesizer Named Lucy
ARP 2600 Synthesizer Named Lucy
I've had this ARP 2600 for decades and never had the courage to remove the 'Lucy' name from it. I'd like to know what its history is.
status Purple Synthesizer by Roger Arrick
The Purple Synthesizer
The Purple Synthesizer is a one-of-a-kind system I built in 2002. It's been bought and sold several times over the years and remains in the wild to this day.
status Blue Synthesizer by Roger Arrick
The Blue Synthesizer
The blue system started with some custom 10-space walnuts cabinets that I decided not to make into standard products.
status Prototype Synthesizer by Roger Arrick
The Prototype Synthesizer
I've been building on this giant modular synthesizer system since the beginning of Synthesizers.com in the late 1990s from various cabinets and modules I had around, sometimes hand-built prototypes that couldn't be used in production.
status Red Synthesizer by Roger Arrick
The Red Synthesizer
The giant Red Synthesizer is my home studio system built between 2015 and 2020.
status History of the Q960 Sequencer Modules by Roger Arrick
History of the Q960 Sequencer Modules
In 2005, at the request of customers, I redesigned the Moog 960 sequencer and created the Q960 along with the Q962 Switch and some other modules.
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