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 ...

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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).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has an AMOLED screen, LED back-lighting in the buttons, a soft-touch finish, and a bunch of connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB-C and 3.5mm ports are all included. (A dock adds MIDI and RCA ...

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