The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup The very first challenge when building a Eurorack modular set up is choosing...
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...
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...
Because it’s not fair that only guitar and bass players can have onstage get-togethers. Mark Jenkins traces these popular strap-ons through the ages. Keytars – keyboards...
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....
Casiotone? Seriously? Yes. We were fortunate to get an excellent preview demo of this little keyboard over Zoom from Casio’s Mike Martin. He played through some...
NEW from Korg, the miniKorg 700FS – the famous analog monophonic synth from 1973 is reissued. It’s only natural to assume that the latest thing is...
About this Month’s Cover Who doesn’t love a spaceship music studio with a dozen keyboards, head-high racks full of effects units, several computers, at least three computer...
About this Month’s Cover Electric piano is an iconic sound, to use the cliché. On the surface, there’s not much to it: a hammer hits a...
About this Month’s Cover There’s nothing like a piano, except for a painting of one or a sampled one. This month’s cover is in the former...
About this Month’s Cover The ARP 2500 came out 50 years ago, and it might be even more important today than it was the year the...
About this Month’s Cover This month’s cover features the personal studio of Synth and Software contributor, Chris Stack. Chris’s wide-ranging life in electronic music has included...
About this Month’s Cover Jean-Michel Jarre may be the best-known synthesist in the world, but he rarely tours the United States. The only time I’ve seen...
About this Month’s Cover: Michelle Moog-Koussa and the Bob Moog Foundation In 1978, free from the company he founded and enamored with the Blue Ridge Mountains,...
About This Month’s Cover: Chris Meyer’s Modular Synth At Synth and Software, we feel most fortunate that Chris Meyer of Learning Modular writes our monthly “This Month’s Modular”...