The Analogue Monster refill is based on 9 legendary synthesisers' sounds from the 70's up to the present, from Japan, USA and Germany.

Our intention was to create as wide selection as possible both in sense of time and in 'geographical area'.

Let's see them one by one. If you click on the name of the synth, you can read the technical details (external links).

Waldorf Microwave

Yes, you guessed right, this is my favourite!;-)
Strictly speaking, it's not a real analogue synthesizer, nevertheless we had two good reasons for having included: microwave has very unique sounds that adds special colours to the entire collection and we wanted to include a German synth into the collection as well... and it is a real monster: it can easily emulate the sounds of the PPG wavetable synths as well as create squelchy acid-303 lines or boomy Moog bass.
It can sounds agressive, but it can be fat and warm as well. Very unique (check out ORANGE2!).

Korg Poly800 MKII

This small grey plastic toy was my very first programmable synthsizer from the late 80's. In the last 15 years I have programmed hundreds of patches, you can find the best ones on the Analogue Monster refill.
Poly800 uses 8 DCOs, they can be set into double mode (4 voice polyphony) for really fat sounds.
The MKII version contains a digital delay and a digital EQ as well, but they were disabled, because they're too noisy (and Reason has better effects ;p).

Roland Jupiter-4

Jupiter 4 was the first Jupiter synth, it was released in 1978. It still has got Moog's style analog filters, so it is a nice analogue synth for creating weird trippy sounds.

Roland Juno-60

Although Juno-60 is not an up-to-date instruments (originally released in 1983), it's still a very popular analogue synth because it sounds better (punchier) than the subsequent Junos (eg. the Juno-106).
Juno-60 is a very rich sounding synthesizers and is a great analog machine with 6-voice polyphony.

Korg MS-20

This small box looks like a home telephone switchboard!;-)
MS-20 was one of Korg's first major successful portable analog monosynths (the first release date is 1978!) and even today it is still a superb little machine. It has two analog oscillators, two VCF filters, two VCAs, sample and hold, a noise generator, an assignable mod-wheel and lots of knobs!
The VCF filter section is capable of high-pass, notch and band-reject which is unique and different than your basic lowpass style filter.

Moog Prodigy

Prodigy was an entry-level monosynth from Moog, which has since become a very popular and widely used Bass-synth in techno and electronic music. The first release date is 1979. It's a very simple synth, but thanks to the original 24dB/oct Moog filters, sounds great!

Korg Mono/Poly

The KORG Mono/Poly is a cool and very unique monophonic/polyphonic analogue synth from 1981.
It has 4 VCO's which can be shared in 4-voice Polyphonic mode, or linked in Unison for an extremely fat monophonic lead.
Each VCO has its own level, tune, and waveform type control. There are also 2 individual LFO's which can be used to modulate the Pulse Width, envelope and Arpeggiator independently.

Alesis Andromeda A6

When I met Andromeda for the very first time, my impressions were: it's huge... it's bloody complex... looks like the inside of a flight deck!;-)
And it sounds as it looks, huge and complex!
Alesis Andromeda A6 is a modern monster from the present (released in 2001): a true analog synthesizer using two analog oscillators per voice, sub-oscillators, hard and soft sync and it features 16-voice polyphony! Andromeda is completely analog - no emulation!

Studio Electronics SE-1X

The SE-1X is the ultimate bass/lead synth of the 21st century: pure analog, monophonic synth-module from the USA, designed to re-create that classic Moog sound perfectly for Hip Hop, R&B and Dance music. The classic Moog sound comes from its 24 dB lowpass voltage controlled analog filter. There is also a 12 dB low-/band-pass filter which emulates the classic sounds of Oberheim synthesizers.
The SE-1X is the improved version of the original SE-1 synth, released in 2001.