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...
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...
A great time was had by all at the Burbank, CA synth show last week, and here are the receipts UPDATE: Synth and Software contributor Mark...
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...
The riveting tale of how I turn on my studio just by telling it to power up You’d be surprised at how much more likely you...
Jim Aikin encounters possibly the most powerful synthesizer he’s ever looked at I already have way too many software synthesizers, but when I saw that a...