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 The very first challenge when building a Eurorack modular set up is choosing a case. After all a Eurorack...
The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup Sometime around the early 2000s I decided that I was done with hardware. Virtual instruments were all the rage,...
Important fashion additions for those who demand to see themselves coming and going It was tough deciding whether to go with the fashion motif or a...
A conversation with Kays Al-Atrakchi, with some great quotable lines Michael Boomer has been repairing vintage synths at his Los Angeles-based LA Synth Co. for the...
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...
Sad news as the electronic music world learns of the passing of Manuel Gottsching earlier in this month Gottsching was an innovator of the Berlin scene, initially a...
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...
Moog Music is again producing their famous classic synth 50+ years later Whether or not you know you know, you know the instrument. Moog Music is...
A morphing grand piano, a new audio/MIDI interface, a 4×4 performance controller, and a hybrid algorithmic polysynth Watch out below. Arturia just dropped: the Augmented Grand...
If everything is ultimately a bunch of sine waves, this “diverse waveshaping” synth is a new take on everything It seems like Cherry Audio releases synths...
We know lots of electronic instruments built in China, but who knows much about Chinese artists? Mark Jenkins spoke to one with some highly unusual performance...
Happy days are here again from Tom Oberheim’s new company We don’t make a habit of announcing that previously announced products are shipping, but Oberheim shipping...
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...
