Consider the saxophone player's pandemic dilemma: How to play at home in a Japanese apartment, notorious for paper-thin walls, without making your neighbors want to kill you. In a pre-COVID-19 world, ...

Synth Library NYC aims to demystify these sometimes complicated, often expensive instruments into the hands of anyone who wants to try one. Synth Library now has 650 members. Once a month, several ...

Just as the synth was losing its way in the late 2000s, the Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics compilation unveiled a new world of synth majesty.

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They say great things come in small packages, but is Korg’s new miniaturised analogue synth just another victim of shrinkflation? We grab a microscope to find out ...

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Are you frustrated with the sheer weight of your hardware synthesizer? Of course not! But ...

I hate, hate, hate computers and phones/tablets on stage. To me, a Macbook sitting next to a keyboardist or percussionist is just asking for trouble. Computers freeze, apps crash and sometimes you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Smith, an electronics pioneer whose creations of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and the Prophet 5 synthesizer ...

RALEIGH, N.C. ” He may not have been a rock star himself, but Robert A. Moog’s influence can be heard in the music of bands from The Beatles to Yes, Herbie Hancock to Chick Corea. Moog, whose ...