Women have made some of the most significant contributions to electronic music, and here we pay homage to three of them. If you ask your average...
Movie and TV composer Michael Whalen reveals his approach to developing sounds for music. I’ve been creating sounds for more than 40 years. I coax them...
The newly released Summer Synthesis 1978 is a lost album by David Torn and Drew Schlesinger. Over the past 40 years, esteemed electronic guitarist David Torn has played...
About This Month’s Cover: the 2020 NAMM show Every January in Anaheim, California, the Winter NAMM Show gives music technology journalists like yours truly to catch...
One of the most anticipated events of the NAMM Show every year is the TEC Awards ceremony. The Technical Excellence and Creativity (TEC) Awards are the...
In an exclusive interview with Synth and Software, pioneering synth designer Dave Smith discusses the new Sequential Pro 3 monophonic synthesizer and other topics. Sequential’s Pro...
Armed with a Moog IIIc modular synthesizer and on the fast track to success, Matt Morton composed the soundtrack to the film Apollo 11. When he landed...
Pearlman put the ARP in ARP synthesizers, and his legacy lives on today. Alan R. Pearlman was the pioneering synthesizer builder and engineer whose initials inspired...
When it comes to good synths in small packages, synth pedals and apps give guitarists and bassists even more choices. In our first installment, we reviewed...
Los guitarristas y bajistas eléctricos pueden tocar el sintetizador con estos pedales de sintetizador, sin necesidad de MIDI. ¿Por qué el sintetizador de guitarra se ha sido...
Electric guitarists and bassists can play synthesizer with these synth pedals — no MIDI required. Why has the guitar synth been slow to catch on? You’ll...
Make your synth talk with subtractive synthesis and ring modulation. Recently I discovered it’s easy to make surprisingly realistic vocal sounds, called phonemes, using any subtractive...
Practically every electronic musician uses MIDI, but many have only a vague understanding of exactly what it is, what it isn’t, and how it works. You...
This underappreciated synthesis technique may be the key to greater musical expression. Ever since I first laid my hands on a Moog modular synth at around...
Memories of the founding father of computer-based music. Max Vernon Mathews (born November 13, 1926; died April 21, 2011) was the Bell Labs scientist who invented computer...