Synth and Software’s guide to the latest options for creating music livestreams over the Internet Ever since the first COVID lockdowns, bands have increasingly turned toward...
Trip through some hi-tech classics with Mark Jenkins Electronic instruments appeared in pop music fairly early on – think Joe Meek’s “Telstar” and Gershon Kingsley’s “Popcorn,”...
Electronics meets viola – a remarkable duo makes waves with ambient music Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer met in Chicago, where they were both taking...
We won’t give away the prices, but… wait: these are all under $100?! Who doesn’t like a powerful but pocket-sized instrument? Korg and Roland both offer...
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...
RIP to the Swedish electronic musician (>80 albums!), film director, artist, and author Ralph Lundsten has passed away at the age of 86. The Swedish composer,...
The co-creator of Ableton Live is also an electronic music innovator It’s often said of an expert in any field that they “wrote the book on...
Nick Steed, keyboardist of the pioneering blues/rock band, talks to Mark Jenkins about their latest The history of British blues/rock band Colosseum goes back a long...
Mark Jenkins gets his freak on – and his hands on this compact instrument Arturia’s new MiniFreak is more than an expanded version of the French...
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...
Akhnaten is a major modern opera by the famous minimalist composer Philip Glass is hailed as the leading figure in the minimalist music movement, developing the...
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...
Paperback-sized analog for desktop or Eurorack (in which case it covers lots of ground) The Moog Mavis is a direct descendant of the company’s Mother 32,...
Whether it’s semi-modular goodness or badness, we can say that the road to hell isn’t paved with this synth Malevolent is a semi-modular monophonic analog synth...