{"id":152609,"date":"2026-03-12T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=152609"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:53:19","slug":"the-ems-synthi-100-modular-synthesizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/12\/the-ems-synthi-100-modular-synthesizer\/","title":{"rendered":"The EMS Synthi 100 Modular Synthesizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Extraordinary EMS Synthi 100\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FLY6DGBHrIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In his latest video, synthesist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AlexBallMusic\">Alex Ball<\/a> takes a look at the <strong>EMS Synthi 100<\/strong>, a rare modular monster synth, originally introduced in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Ball shares a quick history of Electronic Music Studios (EMS), an overview of the Synthi 100, The Townshend Studio and more. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Topics covered:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">0:00 Intro Performance<br \/>\n2:31 History of EMS<br \/>\n12:22 Music Interlude 1<br \/>\n13:46 Guided Tour of the Synthi 100<br \/>\n19:16 Music Interlude 2<br \/>\n21:48 The Vocoder 5000<br \/>\n24:59 The Digital Sequencer<br \/>\n25:49 The Townshend Studio<br \/>\n26:48 Summary &amp; Thanks<br \/>\n27:36 Patreon Outro Performance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video takes a look at the EMS Synthi 100, a rare modular monster synth, originally introduced in 1971.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/12\/the-ems-synthi-100-modular-synthesizer\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The EMS Synthi 100 Modular Synthesizer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23766],"tags":[31448,271,332,1536],"class_list":["post-152609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modular-synthesizers-electronic-music-gear","tag-ems-synthi-100","tag-history-of-electronic-music","tag-modular-synthesizers","tag-pete-townshend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ems-synthi-100.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152611,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152609\/revisions\/152611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}