People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players ...

We’re pretty sure there’s no internationally recognized arbiter of records like “World’s smallest full-featured polyphonic stereo MIDI synthesizer that fits in a DIN shell”. If there isn’t, there sure ...

Watch out GarageBand, the OG is coming around—and just in time for the holidays. Music manufacturer Moog has announced the third reissue of its legendary Minimoog Model D analog synthesizer. Created ...

Synthesizers have grown and evolved quite a bit since their inception in the 1950s, and modern synthesizers offer a wide range of sounds, features and easy-to-use interfaces that weren’t available in ...

These days it’s almost impossible to imagine a world of hardware and software incompatibility in the music tech world. Imagine a DAW or plugin that only runs on a certain make and model of computer.

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).

On this week’s episode of Lost Notes, composer and synth wizard Suzanne Ciani tells contributor Michelle Macklem the story of her journey in modular synthesis. Ciani’s story is one of breaking through ...

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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 These days it’s almost impossible to ...