This new coffee-table book is the stuff of keyboard dreams. Just out from the University of North Texas Press, Classic Keys contains a wealth of well-researched information and...
Excerpt from the book Classic Keys: Keyboard sounds that launched rock music. Authors Alan S. Lenhoff and David E. Robertson As the saying goes, if you have...
The Book of Summit explains the inner workings of the Summit, Novation’s latest flagship synthesizer. Novation just published The Book of Summit, a free new synthesizer...
Arturia’s recent firmware update for the MatrtixBrute opens the door to new sequencing capabilities. The Arturia MatrixBrute is a full-featured analog synth that sounds great. Arturia’s...
File away your musical ideas for future use. Think about how you make music. It can be pretty nonstop: playing, listening, producing, and posting finished pieces...
Modulation changes everything when you route control signals from sources to destinations. Turning knobs by hand while a synthesizer is producing a tone is a great...
Exploring harmonic relationships beyond chords and intervals. Chords. What are chords? Oh, that’s right, they are collections of notes sounded at the same time. They have...
Modular Synthesis for Beginners… Modular Synthesis for Beginners with Jim Aikin When synthesizers first started to take off, back in the ’60s and ’70s, oscillators were...
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...
Managing the horizontal and vertical dimensions of musical space. Chords. Who doesn’t love chords? Generally speaking and to most people, chords appear to be the basic...
Ever wonder why some moments in your favorite pieces of music seem so deeply satisfying? Most often, it’s because the composer has carefully designed such moments...
Everything just adds up when you understand how harmonics work. As musicians, we work with sound. Sure, wearing the right pair of pants in the photo...
Feed your synth audio from your phone or tablet, and synthesize your surroundings. Many years ago (probably before I got my first synth), I read that...
Omnisphere is one of the most popular soft synths ever, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s ever used it. One of its greatest strengths is its versatility—the...
