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 looks at ways to compact your keyboard setup Keyboard players. You arrive three hours before the rest of the band, drag your Hohner Clavinet...
Mark Jenkins investigates a groundbreaking but still mysterious style of music A lot of the pioneering work in using day’s music technology came from the area...
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...
Cheesy Moog albums take on a new life today, as Mark Jenkins enters a world of crazy, psychadelic, and sometimes funny electronic sounds In the course...
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...
Every synth is unique, but here are Mark Jenkins’ (and our) favorite general tips to make creating sounds easy and fun Early synthesists were often asked...
Mark Jenkins with a blast-from-the-past keyboard that looks very much to the future A few months back, just before the new Oberheim synth appeared, we featured a retrospective...
Mark Jenkins goes around and around with a groundbreaking performance sampler Novation is by far the best established UK synth manufacturer, and the parent company Focusrite...
Ed Sheeran, Grimes, and an increasing number of others are using technology to replace the conventional band and present great performances entirely solo. Moonya is a...
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 scopes out these mad scientist favorites, now synth studio must-haves You’ve seen them in countless sci-fi movies, you’ve puzzled over them in your local...
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...
