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...
You can take it with you…and jam along the way. I’m a big fan of little synths. They’re easy to play anywhere, from picnics to planes, and each...
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:...
Read this if you’re wondering how MIDI 2.0 will change how you work and play music. It’s been over 35 years since the MIDI Specification was...
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’re a synthesist, the Kyra could be a DSP farm for your DAW. One remarkably exciting new synthesizer that isn’t getting enough attention (yet) is...
ILIO launches 7 Days of Sound Design, a new series on sound design techniques with Spectrasonics’ flagship synthesizer Omnisphere 2.6 Starting today, ILIO will release one video...
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...
