Synth and Software contributor Jerry Kovarsky provides his list of synth players that are unsurpassed at playing leads and solos....
It’s serial #002, donated from the synth cellar of Board of Directors President Dave Mash Here’s a press release from the Bob Moog Foundation, a non-profit...
Connect masses of audio gear to your iPhone or iPad with a powered USB hub. Steve Jobs famously introduced the iPod as “a thousand songs in your pocket.”...
A conversation with BSEM founder and ARP 2600 manual author Jim Michmerhuizen If you were to set the Wayback Machine to 1968 while searching for transformational...
Find musical inspiration at the touch of a button (or two). The music software world is rife with one-finger wonders. One Note On command is seemingly...
Experimental Synth explorer Chris Stack breaks new ground by connecting the Subharmonicon and the Hydrasynth. Wikipedia defines the word vignette as “a short impressionistic scene that focuses on...
Want to create more interesting modular patches? Add more modulation sources such as the DivKid/Instruō øchd and DivKid/SSF RND STEP. Ben “DivKid” Wilson is one of...
Want to design a radical new instrument and then bring it to life? How do you teach electronic instrument design? According to me (and I’ve been...
Where do song ideas come from, where do we take them, and where do they take us? What makes a good song idea? How do you...
I didn’t set out to build my own MIDI sample player, but SparkFun made it so easy I couldn’t resist. The SparkFun Tsunami is a 3...
Three female composers who shattered norms and made their mark in history In April we took a look at three female composers of electronic film scores:...
Rules of engagement for getting the most out of remote group music projects I recently agreed to join with a couple pals in a music creation...
If you want the predictability of an LFO with the pattern variations of random modulation, just add chaos. One challenge in music composition is finding the...
The heart of many synths is a wavetable oscillator, but what the heck are wavetables? Filling your mix with fresh, exciting sounds is what electronic music...
How to use sequencers to create musical patterns My last few columns have discussed repetition in music and the patterns that result. Until now, those discussions...