Music technology was an expensive business back in the late 60s. It was very much the preserve of the rich or culturally successful elite, at least until a degree of democratisation occurred, during ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Novation has released a new editor for its inspirational groovebox, the Circuit Synth Editor. The ...

There's little that excites us more than a DIY synth, but slapping an arcade-style joystick onto a fuzzy, glitchy, beeping analog monster practically pushes us over the edge. Synth-master Unearthed ...

CV/Gate, DCB, USI, UMI and The Oberheim System… This is the story of how synth’s biggest players narrowly averted a standards war and made sweet music together When you purchase through links on our ...

American synthesizer company Sequential Circuits recently announced a brand new compact desktop version of their iconic Prophet-5 synthesizer. The Prophet-5 was the first programmable polyphonic synth ...

When synthesizers first became popular in the Late Jurassic 1970s, musicians needed a solid knowledge of how they worked in order to play them, mostly because they looked like this (or worse, this).

As redundant as any claims that “(insert genre here) is dead” would be, there exist certain elements lurking in today’s more mysterious musical forests that are breathing a new life into the concepts ...

The Pocket Piano might not look like much. Or it might look like an awesome, handmade marriage of craftwork and electronics (a Kraftwerk, if you will). Either way, it does a lot more than you think it ...

The Stereo Field is an intriguing box of synthesized tricks which contains mirrored stereo circuits that are manipulated through touch. When a player's skin touches plates on the upper surface, points ...

NIST researchers recently demonstrated sine-wave synthesis on three superconducting integrated circuit chips using palladium-gold barrier junctions. This is a major step toward the goal of developing ...

Dave Smith, who created the Prophet-5 synthesizer and pioneered the use of MIDI, has died. His company, Sequential, shared the sad news, writing, “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that ...

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