The SynthAxe is a fretted, guitar-like MIDI controller, created by Bill Aitken, Mike Dixon, and Tony Sedivy and manufactured in England in 1985. It is...

any MIDI parameter. The SynthAxe was prohibitively expensive and therefore not widely used. Two of the most famous SynthAxe users are guitarist Allan...

associated with playing an early form of guitar synthesizer called the SynthAxe, a company he endorsed in the 1980s. Holdsworth has been cited as an influence...

JMS–Cream Records (Europe). It features Holdsworth's first recorded use of the SynthAxe, an instrument which would be featured prominently on his future albums...

Both reviews also highlighted Holdsworth's more restrained use of the SynthAxe, an instrument featured prominently on all of his albums since Atavachron...

extensive use of the SynthAxe. All music is composed by Allan Holdsworth, except where noted Allan Holdsworth – guitar, SynthAxe, engineering, mixing...

and JMS–Cream Records (Europe). The second disc contains predominantly SynthAxe-based compositions, which formed the basis of much of Holdsworth's recordings...

first track, the entire album was recorded by Holdsworth himself using the SynthAxe, an instrument for which he became well known since Atavachron (1986)....

electric guitars (1, 3, 5-7), guitar melody and solo (1, 2, 4, 8), SynthAxe (1-4, 6, 8), SynthAxe with Oberheim and Yamaha synthesizers (1, 2, 4, 8), electric...

radiodrum, Akai's EWI and Yamaha's WX wind controllers, the guitar-like SynthAxe, the BodySynth, the Buchla Thunder, the Continuum Fingerboard, the Roland...

Sadler: Vocals & Keyboards Jim Crichton: Bass, Keyboards and Synthaxe Ian Crichton: Guitars, Synthaxe & Banjo Curt Cress: Drums and Percussion Production Produced...

jazz fusion Occupation(s) Musician, composer, inventor Instrument(s) Drumitar, Zendrum, SynthAxe, drums, vocals Labels Warner Bros. Columbia/Sony BMG...

Roy Wooten), the percussionist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, uses a Synthaxe Drumitar to trigger drum sounds on several MIDI sound modules, which allows...

keyboards Jim Crichton – bass guitar, keyboards, synthaxe Ian Crichton – guitar, shadow midi guitar systems, synthaxe Curt Cress – drums, percussion Brian Foraker...

Kurzweil K250 and backing vocals (1) Gary Moore – electric guitars (4, 5), Synthaxe (5) Ian Ritchie – tenor saxophone (2, 8), Lyricon (3), baritone saxophone...

Holdsworth's "unreachable technical standard" and continued development of the SynthAxe. In a 2013 interview with MusicRadar, Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison...

Occupation(s) Composer, singer-songwriter, lyricist, producer Instrument(s) Vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, synthaxe Years active 1993–present...

(Christopher Cross, Will Jennings) - 5:39 Christopher Cross – vocals, guitars, SynthAxe Michael Omartian – keyboards, synthesizers, horn arrangements Marcus Ryle...

excursions." All music is composed by Jens Johansson Allan Holdsworth – guitar, SynthAxe Jens Johansson – keyboard, bass synthesizer, engineering, mixing, production...

composed by Gordon Beck, except where noted Allan Holdsworth – guitar, SynthAxe, engineering, mixing, production Gordon Beck – keyboard Mycock, Martin...

– electric guitars, backing vocals Danny McIntosh – electric guitars, SynthAxe Morris Michael – electric guitars [& stepp] Felix Kirsh – bass guitar,...

written by Allan Holdsworth, except where noted Allan Holdsworth – guitar, SynthAxe, mixing, producer Naomi Star – vocals Steve Hunt – keyboard (tracks 1,...

played drumitar, an instrument which he'd developed by linking a customised SynthAxe guitar synthesizer controller to drum sounds. Melodies were usually taken...

line-up Ian Crichton – guitar, SynthAxe, banjo (1977–present) Jim Crichton – bass, keyboards, Moog synthesizer, guitar, SynthAxe (1977–present; studio only...

Since he was primarily a guitarist and not a keyboardist, he purchased a SynthAxe MIDI controller guitar to trigger cues to a computer which operated the...

considered cutting-edge technology at the time, including the newly invented synthaxe guitar, as well as host of synthesizers and sequencers including the Wendell...

sometimes difficult to distinguish between Hunt's playing and Holdsworth's SynthAxe. Glenn Astarita at AllMusic called the album one of Holdsworth's "better...

except where noted Stuart Hamm – bass guitar, production Allan Holdsworth – SynthAxe on "Radio Free Albemuth" Joe Satriani – electric guitar on "Radio Free...

Charlie Judge – accordion, Hammond B3, piano, upright piano, strings, synthaxe, synthesizer Gina Kronstadt – violin John Krovoza – cello Marisa Kuney...

acoustic-electric guitar, Moog synthesizer, pump organ, sitar, slide guitar, soloist, SynthAxe, tom-tom, vocal harmony, background vocals, wah wah guitar, Wurlitzer Technical...