We know lots of electronic instruments built in China, but who knows much about Chinese artists? Mark Jenkins spoke to one with some highly unusual performance...
Synthetic Sound Labs has just released its new 3650 Digital Sequencer module – SSL’s first venture into the Buchla 200e format. Simple operation and straightforward functions...
Performed on sampled piano, two Buchla synths, and a Buchla tactile surface, his new music couldn’t be timelier. You may know him as the synthesist who...
A Synth and Software book review Vintage electronic instruments from the 1970s and ’80s are much sought after today, either in their original hardware form or...
His latest is an all-star collaboration with Michael Manring (bass), Michael Brook (guitar), Jeff Oster (trumpet), and Karsh Kale (percussion) Regular followers of Synth and Software...
Mark Jenkins meets a modular and (maybe) techno-pop innovator Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is one of the new generation of modular synth musicians. She lives in Los...
Larger versions have been praised for their sounds, but does this one go where no synth has gone before (other than a desktop or connected to...
This little marvel only costs… $250?! Call me a late bloomer, but I’ve been resisting the siren song of hardware modular synthesis – until I discovered...
Berlin-based experimental sound artist Yair Elazar Glotman to yield YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN – SPECULATIVE MEMORIES. A plug-in that loads into all major DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations)...
Mark Jenkins traces the history of pocket-size sound makers 180-pound six foot weighted keyboard controllers are still a going concern, but there’s also a trend toward...
It’s stand-alone for a desktop, of put it in a Eurorack Cre8 Audio has released a flurry of affordable Eurorack products recently. First came the East...
Mark Jenkins profiles a synth that continues to divide opinion after 20 years The title of this piece is intentionally contentious, because the distinctively blue-paneled OB12...
The Bob Moog Foundation is proud to announce the release of its 2022 Synthesizer Pioneers calendar, honoring innovators in the field of synthesis from the past 60...
Bob Moog Foundation Announces 2022 18-Month Calendar Featuring 60 Years of Synthesizer Pioneers. The Bob Moog Foundation announces its 2022 Synthesizer Pioneers calendar, honoring innovators in the field of...
If you ever want to stir up controversy, just propose ranking the world’s top synthesists. Synth and Software founding editor Geary Yelton and I tried to...