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Technics WSA1 and its rackmounted counterpart WSA1R was Technics ' first and only try at high-end synthesizers.

It featured 64 voices of polyphony with a combination of sample playback ( for inititial transitents ) and DSP acoustic modelling.

Technics WSA1 was launched in 1995, but the musical community did not have enough confidence in Technics to buy a $ 5000 hardware synth.

Only about 600 keyboards and 300 rack models were ever made, and most were sold at highly discounted prices.