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Mixing it up with the Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave, Moog Matriarch, and the unstoppable Yamaha CS-30. After pushing the AX80 to its outer limits to discover its unique personality quirks, I wanna know if Akai’s first synthesizer from 1984 can lead a pack of notoriously HUGE instruments.

And there’s only one way to find out…

Is the Akai AX80 a handsome but boring instrument? Not so fast.

This gorgeous brute has mastered things other synths can’t touch. Simply put, the AX80 has a strong personality. But to find it, you’ll have to push it to the outer limits of what the engine was built to do.