Keyboards

Ernst Zacharias invented the Clavinet and has spent a lifetime perfecting electro-mechanical instruments. We talk to him about his life and explore his classic designs.

A fully-weighted master keyboard at this price is unheard of. Is the KeyLab 88 too good to be true?

Korg’s single–handed analogue revival continues unabated, with the release of an affordable four–voice polysynth.

ROLI’s new instrument further develops the technology of their revolutionary Seaboard Grand — at a much more affordable price.

With a large, well–equipped control panel and a gratuitously laden effects rack, the JDXA could be Roland’s most ambitious, hands–on synthesizer in many years.

The Forte offers stage-piano immediacy combined with the deeply programmable synthesis that we’ve come to expect from Kurzweil.

Yamaha’s Reface range recreates four of their classic instruments in miniature form.

With its familiar interface and enormous potential for expressive control, is the ROLI Seaboard the future of the keyboard?

I tested CME’s first Xkey 25-note compact keyboard for our March 2014 issue. Now they've added an extra octave and released the Xkey37.

This is the story of the fall and rise of a unique Mellotron with an equally unique history.

The CP4 is Yamaha’s best stage piano yet, and it’s also significantly cheaper than its predecessor.

NI turn their hybrid expertise to keyboard design with an innovative controller for Komplete and Maschine.

It might have lacked drawbars and tonewheels, but, sonically, the little–known Lowrey Heritage Deluxe was a match for any Hammond organ.

The System 1 is a fully fledged synthesizer in its own right, but it can also assume the identity of Roland classics using its built–in ‘plug–out’ technology.

Roland have condensed their considerable synthesizer workstation expertise into a single, affordable instrument.