Historic Manufacturers of Modular Synthesizer Hardware
The earliest commercial modular synthesizers were developed, in parallel, by R.A. Moog Co., and Buchla in 1963. The synthesizer both broadened the spectrum, and greatly eased the creation of electronic music, which before was made via tape splicing, use of primitive electronic oscillators, and earlier electronic or electromechanical instruments such as the theremin and the Ondes Martenot. ARP, Serge, and EMS versions were soon to follow. In 1976, the Japanese company Roland came out with the Roland System 100. Also in the early 1970s, there were at least two mail-order electronics kit vendors Paia Electronics, and Aries, marketing different lines of simple DIY modular synthesizer systems. The Aries system was modeled on the circuits produced by Bernie Hutchins and published as Electronotes. In the UK in the 1980s the Digisound 80 Modular Synthesizer, designed primarily, by Charles Blakey was sold as a kit by the company Digisound Ltd. Many of the early modules appeared in the early to mid 1980s as construction articles in two British electronics magazines - Electronics Today International (ETI) and Electronics & Music Maker (E&MM). Joseph A. Paradiso's Massive Modular Synth is among the world's largest home-designed and built synthesizers.
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