It’s like additive synthesis but unique: two sample-based oscillators play up to eight pitches each, based on the harmonic series...
The 2023 take on Roland’s classic SH-101 fits in your jacket pocket and only costs $200 The Roland S-1 Tweak Synthesizer is the latest offering from...
Mark Jenkins gets his freak on – and his hands on this compact instrument Arturia’s new MiniFreak is more than an expanded version of the French...
Marty Cutler got his hands on the new version of this highly expressive instrument A quick thumbnail refresher course: MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) is a fairly...
Larger versions have been praised for their sounds, but does this one go where no synth has gone before (other than a desktop or connected to...
Paperback-sized analog for desktop or Eurorack (in which case it covers lots of ground) The Moog Mavis is a direct descendant of the company’s Mother 32,...
Whether it’s semi-modular goodness or badness, we can say that the road to hell isn’t paved with this synth Malevolent is a semi-modular monophonic analog synth...
The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup Now that choosing the case part of the build is settled, it’s time to assemble my very first Eurorack...
Marty Cutler is so taken by this processed guitar library that he forgets and strums his keyboard The love affair between guitars and synthesis has been...
This little marvel only costs… $250?! Call me a late bloomer, but I’ve been resisting the siren song of hardware modular synthesis – until I discovered...
Can $600 really buy you a synth that sounds at least as good and can do more than the original Prophet 600?! Mark Jenkins says… Behringer’s...
Mark Jenkins with a blast-from-the-past keyboard that looks very much to the future A few months back, just before the new Oberheim synth appeared, we featured a retrospective...
It was just released today (Tom Oberheim’s birthday), and it’s a beauty Okay, this is my new favorite synth (along with all my other favorite ones)....
Mark Jenkins goes around and around with a groundbreaking performance sampler Novation is by far the best established UK synth manufacturer, and the parent company Focusrite...
Mark Jenkins looks at a reimagining of the classic EMS VCS 3 or Synthi A, two of the first portable synthesizers made We’re looking at the...
