Reverb.com Publish Synth Sales Charts for 2017

Reverb.com's Dan Orkin has taken a look at the best sellers in the synth market over at Reverb.com who should be able to gather some fulsome data, being a marketplace for both used and new equipment.

As we know, the electronic music scene is in fine form, with many new releases (though perhaps not as many as 2016). Guitars once again have taken somewhat of a back seat in the music tech buying public's choices. We wonder why that might be? Fashion being one, synths are cool! Perhaps also that there's less room for innovation in such an established musical instrument form? Who knows...

With four new Boutiques,  Roland are occupying 4 of the top 15 slots for 2017 releases. The SH-01A, D-05, TR-08 and the analog SE-02 all released this year. Korg also coming on strong with both Volcas, Minilogue and Monologue Moog, Korg, and Dave Smith Instruments released variations on existing instruments, while Novation came to the table with the Peak, the latest in a growing sector of fully featured desktop synths.

Overall Best Sellers:

• 1 Korg Volca FM Digital FM Synthesizer/Sequencer
• 2 Teenage Engineering OP-1
• 3 Korg Minilogue 4-Voice Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer
• 4 Korg Volca Beats Analog Rhythm Machine
• 5 Korg Monologue Monophonic Analog Synthesizer
• 6 Arturia Microbrute
• 7 Korg MicroKORG 37-Key Mini Synth and Vocoder
• 8 Korg Volca Sample Digital Sample Sequencer
• 9 Moog Mother-32 Semi-Modular Synthesizer
• 10 Korg MS-20 Mini Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer
• 11 Korg Volca Keys Analog Loop Synthesizer
• 12 Access Virus Ti2 Desktop
• 13 Arturia DrumBrute
• 14 Make Noise 0-Coast Semi-Modular Desktop Synthesizer
• 15 Roland SP-404SX Portable Linear Wave Sampler

Interesting to see the venerable Access Virus Ti2 in there and also some love for the 0-Coast.

On to the best sellers released in 2017

• 1 Korg Monologue Monophonic Analog Synthesizer
• 2 Elektron Digitakt
• 3 Roland Boutique Series TR-08
• 4 Teenage Engineering PO-32
• 5 Dave Smith Instruments Prophet Rev2 8-Voice Keyboard
• 6 Dave Smith Instruments Prophet Rev2 16-Voice Keyboard
• 7 Novation Peak Desktop Polyphonic Synth
• 8 Roland Boutique Series SH-01A
• 9 Roland Boutique Series SE-02
• 10 Dubreq Stylophone Gen X-1 Analog Synthesizer
• 11 Roland D-05 Boutique Series Linear Synthesizer
• 12 Pioneer Toraiz AS-1 Monophonic Analog Synthesizer
• 13 Korg ARP Odyssey FS Rev1 Duophonic Analog Synthesizer
• 14 Moog Subsequent 37 CV Paraphonic Analog Synth
• 15 Roland RD-200

Again, nothing massively surprising but looks like the Digitakt has really been a popular release for Elektron, and good to see the Novation in there - it's a great synth.

Eurorack 2017 Sales

• 1 Expert Sleepers Disting MK3
• 2 Mutable Instruments Clouds
• 3 Make Noise Maths
• 4 Mutable Instruments Rings
• 5 Tiptop Audio uZeus with Flying Bus Boards
• 6 Make Noise Morphagene
• 7 Tiptop Audio Happy Ending Kit
• 8 Mutable Instruments Peaks
• 9 Make Noise Richter Wogglebug
• 10 Make Noise Pressure Points
• 11 Mutable Instruments Ripples
• 12 Make Noise Rosie
• 13 Make Noise Rene Sequencer
• 14 Make Noise Optomix
• 15 Make Noise Erbe-Verb

So a lot of people perhaps starting out in Eurorack with PSU and kits from Tip Top doing well, and good to see the UK in the No1 slot with Expert Sleepers Disting - represent!

So what does this all mean? Obviously, these are only sales at Reverb.com, so doesn't reflect all sales data, but it should be a pretty good indicator of whats going on.

Check the full article on Reverb.com

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