Check out the original ARP Odyssey ad in here! The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation is holding an in-person/online event/fundraiser, celebrating 50 years of the famous synth....
Why “hybrid?” Because it runs samples through a synth engine – morphing filter, FX, arpeggiators, and it has an XY pad. EastWest’s Doug Rogers and Nick...
Recent gems from the London music scene – oh yes, they’re still performing While there are great new artists appearing all the time on the electronic...
A look at the latest world prices for classic instruments Prices for electronic instruments – particularly classic analog synths – seem to have gone crazy over...
Sad news as the electronic music world learns of the passing of Manuel Gottsching earlier in this month Gottsching was an innovator of the Berlin scene, initially a...
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...
Major update brings more 2022 features to the classic modeled ARP synth Watch for the Synth and Software review later this month. Here’s the announcement, fresh...
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...
Jim Aikin ponders why anyone would want an old, obsolete instrument The art and technology of synthesizer design has changed enormously over the past 50 years....
ARP’s 4-in-one synth gets recreated and improved in software. Who better to appreciate it than John McJunkin, who’s owned the original since it came out? ARP...
Have you wondered about the striking music in “Missions,” the French sci-fi TV series? Mark Jenkins did, and here’s what he found out. In fact, have...
Announcing ARPS for All. The following is cut-and-pasted from the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation as a public service. The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation (ARPF), in partnership with The Record...
Synth and Software contributor Mark Jenkins provides some exciting page-flipping adventures to keep you off the streets and out of trouble. Under lockdown conditions there’s nothing...
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,...