Every year a select group of musicians from around the world gather for ContinuuCon, the annual conference of Haken Continuum aficionados. After last year’s event at IRCAM...
I like magazines. I’ve always liked magazines. I first read about synthesizers in Time magazine, and I first read about MIDI in Polyphony. When I was in the...
About This Month’s Cover In 2017 I was fortunate enough to interview French synthesist Jean-Michel Jarre, who was about to embark on his first American tour...
Now more than five years old, the little DAW that could presents The Grid, the big modular synthesizer that does…everything. Major DAW updates don’t often take...
Some reverb processors go far beyond the basics of room simulation. Electronic Musician’s former editor-in-chief investigates one you may not know about. What separates an excellent reverb...
A celebration of Moog synthesizers, the men who created them, and the musicians who play them. For three days in mid-August, dozens of synthusiasts gathered in...
If you’re going to be programming synthesizers, you’ll need to understand what oscillators do. The sounds produced by synthesizers come from modules called oscillators. A lot...
Has the Fourths String Layout become a new standard for finger positioning? Most electronic music today is played on a MIDI piano keyboard. This layout has...
Do you believe in magic? What should you do when you’ve fallen under its spell? The real beginning of any musical piece is not how it...
Today the Bob Moog Foundation announces its fall raffle featuring a coveted, fully restored vintage Memorymoog Plus synthesizer, formerly owned, played, and signed by Dr. Fink...
Arturia has just announced their latest effects bundle, 3 Delays You Will Actually Use, and it’s now available for download. As the name suggests, it comprises...
How to make synths sound as infinitely interesting as acoustic instruments. Why do acoustic instruments sound so expressive and interesting, even without accompaniment? When you play...
¿Quieres aprender a programar sintetizadores, pero no sabes por dónde empezar? En su nueva serie de columnas, quien fuera editor de la revista Keyboard te enseña...
Want to learn how to program synthesizers, but you don’t know where to begin? In his new series of columns, a former Keyboard magazine editor teaches you what...
TC Electronic first offered the power of mastering music at home 25 years ago with the original Finalizer hardware unit. Now the company introduces a brand-new...