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Jim Aikin

Jim Aikin has been writing about music technology for more than 35 years. His product reviews and tutorials appeared frequently in Keyboard and Electronic Musician, and in other magazines. His books include Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming, 2nd edition (Hal Leonard Publishing), Csound Power! (Cengage Learning), and a recent four-volume fantasy epic that opens with The Leafstone Shield (available on Amazon). He has served as principal cellist in a couple of community orchestras, and plays Bach and Haydn on the piano strictly for personal enjoyment. His music blog is at synthage.wordpress.com.

Stories By Jim Aikin

Columns1 year ago

Jim Aikin’s Modular Synthesis for Beginners – Filters: When Less Is More

Modular Synthesis for Beginners… Modular Synthesis for Beginners with Jim Aikin When synthesizers first started to take off, back in the ’60s and ’70s, oscillators were...
In This Issue2 years ago

Modular Synthesis for Beginners – Oscillators, Part 2: Additive Synthesis

Everything just adds up when you understand how harmonics work. As musicians, we work with sound. Sure, wearing the right pair of pants in the photo...
In This Issue2 years ago

Modular Synthesis for Beginners – Oscillators, Part 1: Analog Waves

If you’re going to be programming synthesizers, you’ll need to understand what oscillators do. The sounds produced by synthesizers come from modules called oscillators. A lot...
Columns2 years ago

Presentamos la Síntesis Modular para Principiantes de Jim Aikin: ¡LISTO PARA RACKEAR!

¿Quieres aprender a programar sintetizadores, pero no sabes por dónde empezar? En su nueva serie de columnas, quien fuera editor de la revista Keyboard te enseña...
Columns2 years ago

Introducing Jim Aikin’s Modular Synthesis for Beginners: READY TO RACK!

Want to learn how to program synthesizers, but you don’t know where to begin? In his new series of columns, a former Keyboard magazine editor teaches you what...