Mark Jenkins is a major contributors to Synth and Software, so he gets special dispensation when he releases an album That’s been our policy for… okay,...
A look at the latest world prices for classic instruments Prices for electronic instruments – particularly classic analog synths – seem to have gone crazy over...
Synth and Software contributors sound off on their choices We asked several of our top contributors to write a couple of paragraphs about why they use...
Can $600 really buy you a synth that sounds at least as good and can do more than the original Prophet 600?! Mark Jenkins says… Behringer’s...
Mark Jenkins flies in all the way from London to attend Los Angeles’ busy post-covid (we hope!) music tech show Well, wouldn’t you know it. No...
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...
A different way of approaching your digital audio sequencing software and its plug-in processors There’s an interesting feature in the forthcoming CLAP open plug-in format: polyphonic...
A further blow to the electronic music community has come with the death aged 79 of Vangelis from COVID-related complications [Editor’s note: I posted some brief...
Mark Jenkins updates us on the goings-on at Arturia, the French hardware and software company. Arturia maintains a healthy balance between hardware and software products. Synths...
He was a synth pioneer, “Krautrock” musician (former member of Tangerine Dream), and he released 60 albums… Header image: Klaus Schulze performing the Linz Steel Symphony,...
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...
Mark Jenkins sends all six voices of Arturia’s new flagship model into controlled oscillation Arturia’s Polybrute has become the flagship model for a manufacturer originally known...
There are wonderful musicians with massive synthesizer collections in New York, London, Paris, Berlin – but would you expect to find one in Argentina? Ernesto Romeo,...
The price of classic synthesizers continues to rise. Which ones are worth their asking price? With few exceptions, almost everyone agrees on which vintage synths they...