All over the Internet, the subscription license overshadows what looks like a very cool app By now you’ve surely seen...
It happened April 13 – 15 at the Anaheim Convention Center For decades the entire music industry has convened at the NAMM Show to see what...
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...
Roger Linn’s latest instrument is a very expressive MPE controller guaranteed make your synths sing The LinnStrument is a sure cure for the static synth part....
We review an interesting sequencing module in this episode in our chronicles of a new Eurorack setup In this installment we’ll tackle using a sequencer within...
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...
The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup In Part 3 of this series I installed my modules into the NiftyCASE and hooked them up to the power...
The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup The very first challenge when building a Eurorack modular set up is choosing a case. After all a Eurorack...
The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup Sometime around the early 2000s I decided that I was done with hardware. Virtual instruments were all the rage,...
A conversation with Kays Al-Atrakchi, with some great quotable lines Michael Boomer has been repairing vintage synths at his Los Angeles-based LA Synth Co. for the...
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 interviews one of the world’s finest musicians and producers Steve Hillage is one of the world’s finest musicians and producers, and in the next...
Mark Jenkins reports on some remarkable new books about electronic music While download reading is still popular, there are plenty of reasons to own a real...
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...
Softsynths, reverbs, newly imagined processors… plug-ins are no longer inexpensive stand-ins for hardware For years the conventional wisdom was that – with a few notable exceptions...