Machines

The machines doing the work

These are the real vintage instruments at the heart of the first libraries, plus a wider studio cast now drawn as characters. Each illustrated machine is genuinely played, recorded, and shaped by hand — the value comes from the sound design and experimentation, not from archiving factory presets. Technical notes and video still arrive later. Nothing here is a product, a price, or a release date.

Studio cast

Eighteen character masters across the artwork batches, shown in full. Names match the machines they depict.

Akai S900 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Rack sampler

Akai S900

A 12-bit sampler with punch in its heart. It helped shape classic hip-hop, house and electronic music—and still makes every drum feel important.

E-mu Emax I — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Sampler-synth

E-mu Emax I

A keyboard cousin of the mighty SP-1200, with 12-bit sampling and warm analog filters. Big, strange and ready to turn any sound into an instrument.

Akai S612 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Rack sampler

Akai S612

Akai’s first sampler makes sound-mangling a live performance. Move its sliders while it plays and one tiny recording becomes a loop, a rhythm or a beautiful mistake.

E-mu E4 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Sampler rack

E-mu E4

A giant of ’90s drum & bass, built for chopping breaks and building enormous bass. Its Z-plane filters can make any sample twist, move and growl.

Ensoniq ESQ-1 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Hybrid synth

Ensoniq ESQ-1

Three crunchy 8-bit oscillators meet warm analog filters and an eight-track sequencer. Gritty, expressive and always ready to turn one idea into a song.

Ensoniq SQ-80 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Keyboard synth

Ensoniq SQ-80

The ESQ idea grows sharper, stranger and more alive. Its famous drum waves can become beats, basses or something nobody has named yet.

Kawai K3m — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Synth module

Kawai K3m

A quiet hybrid treasure with digital waves and beautiful analog filters. Cold bells, dark pads and bass with real weight.

Korg DDD-5 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Drum machine

Korg DDD-5

A little 12-bit drum machine that can switch patterns and throw in fills while it plays. Our WavRex cards give it sounds it could never have dreamed of in 1987.

Korg EX-8000 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Synth module

Korg EX-8000

Digital waves, growling analog filters and a wonderfully unruly delay. Sleek on the outside, much stranger underneath.

Ensoniq Mirage DSK-8 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Sampling keyboard

Ensoniq Mirage DSK-8

Ensoniq’s first product helped bring sampling to ordinary musicians. Eight-bit sampling, analog filters and just enough difficulty to make every sound feel earned.

Roland JX-10 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Polyphonic synth

Roland JX-10

Two lush analog synthesizers living inside one elegant instrument. Twelve voices and slow-moving pads and leads big enough to fill a room.

Roland MKS-100 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Sampler rack

Roland MKS-100

A tiny rack sampler with only seconds to remember. Its 12-bit voice turns drums, bass notes and fragments into solid little musical objects.

Roland RD-1000 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Digital piano

Roland RD-1000

Roland’s first RD used a new kind of synthesis to dream up a piano. Grand, glassy and unmistakably its own—gospel loved it too.

Roland S-10 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Sampling keyboard

Roland S-10

A friendly 12-bit sampler hiding a wonderfully strange arpeggiator. It can climb, fall, wander randomly or follow another rhythm into trouble.

Roland S-50 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Sampling keyboard

Roland S-50

Hi-fi in 1986, beautifully lo-fi now. Give it a monitor, tablet and pencil and it can draw its own waveforms—then turn them into enormous bass.

Roland SVC-350 Vocoder — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Vocoder

Roland SVC-350 Vocoder

Our king of vocoders. Plug in the microphone, move its eleven little sliders and let the rack begin to sing.

Yamaha RX5 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

Rhythm machine

Yamaha RX5

A drum machine that can twist a single hit into a crazy synth effect. Our special cards let it perform the same magic on our own sounds.

Yamaha TX816 — bespoke EVENROBOTSCRY character, full silhouette including hands and feet

FM synth rack

Yamaha TX816

Eight complete FM synthesizers living in one enormous rack. One note can become a choir of shimmer, thunder and impossible electric detail.