EMS Synthi 100

With the addition of the 256-step digital sequencer's circuit cards, the card count rises to 85 (28 times larger than a VCS3 by circuit board count), with 12 voltage-controlled oscillators and eight voltage-controlled filters Two monophonic keyboards (both keyboards together produce four control voltages and two key triggers simultaneously).

It featured an LED display, twin digital cassettes, Two 24 × 60 matrix patchboards, and a switch button control panel.

It contained a 22 band filter, 22 × 22 matrix patchboard, mic/line inputs, two oscillators and noise sources, frequency shifter, pitch to voltage extractor, and a spectrum display driver.

[7] The Synthi 100 owned by Jack Dangers can be heard being used extensively on electronica group Meat Beat Manifesto's album R.U.O.K.?.

[11] They took delivery of an EMS Synthi 100 modular system in 1970 which had been modified to BBC specifications,[12][13] dubbing it the "Delaware", after the name of the road outside the studio.

[15] The first classical electronic music LP album generated exclusively on the Synthi 100 was released by Composers Recordings, Inc. in 1975.

[16] The WDR Electronic Music Studio ordered a Synthi 100 in 1973, and it was delivered the next year[17] It was used by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Sirius (1975–77),[18][19] by Rolf Gehlhaar for Fünf deutsche Tänze (1975),[20] by John McGuire for Pulse Music III (1978),[21][22] and by York Höller for Mythos for 13 instruments, percussion, and electronic sounds (1979–80).

IPEM, the musicology research center and former electroacoustic music production studio of Ghent University also owns a restored and working Synthi 100.

Eduard Artemyev, Yuri Bogdanov and Vladimir Martynov used the Synthi 100 owned by Soviet label "Melodia" for their record "Metamorphoses - Electronic interpretations of classic and modern musical works".

[28] Sarah Davachi released her album "Vergers"[29] in November 2016 by Important Records[30] centred largely on the EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer.

A Synthi 100, owned by the Greek Contemporary Music Research Center, was restored and exhibited in Athens Conservatoire as part of the Documenta 14 in 2017.

EMS Synthi 100
EMS Synthi 100 with dual manual keyboard ( National Music Centre , Calgary, Canada)
EMS Synthi 200