With Depeche Mode’s 15th studio album, Memento Mori, out now, we’ve decided to look back at the band’s synth history and have a go at recreating some Mode-like beats, riffs and sequences. We’ll not ...

SYNTH WEEK 2024: Why do we cry foul when we find out that our favourite sound from our favourite track is – in fact – preset 32 from bank F on a keyboard that anyone could own? Using presets in your ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: It's likely that we're all guilty of periodically shunning our existing repository of plugins and VIs, and splash out on a shiny new synth, hoping it’ll provide us with a fresh, ...

The best day of owning a synth or keyboard is the one it arrives at your doorstep. You've been looking forward to this day for weeks, perhaps saving your hard-earned cash for an instrument which, most ...