The price of classic synthesizers continues to rise. Which ones are worth their asking price? With few exceptions, almost everyone...
Where did “the world’s most dangerous synth” begin, and where is it now? Fifty years ago, Herb Deutsch, Chris Swansen, and a handful of other dedicated...
Arturia OB-Xa V emulates the classic Oberheim OB-Xa polysynth and gives it a few modern twists. French specialists in music gear Arturia just launched OB-Xa V....
About This Month’s Cover: Chris Meyer’s Modular Synth At Synth and Software, we feel most fortunate that Chris Meyer of Learning Modular writes our monthly “This Month’s Modular”...
Armed with synthesizers, effects, and her own voice, Ciani breathed life into a science-fiction world of imagination. In 1979, coin-operated arcade game maker Bally Manufacturing approached...
The Bob Moog Foundation announces its 2020 Minimoog Raffle, featuring a vintage Minimoog Model D synthesizer signed by legendary keyboardist Herbie Hancock. “The Bob Moog Foundation is...
The newly released Summer Synthesis 1978 is a lost album by David Torn and Drew Schlesinger. Over the past 40 years, esteemed electronic guitarist David Torn has played...
A few hours ago, filmmaker Alex Ball released the promotional trailer for his upcoming documentary, Electromotive: The Story of ARP Instruments. Beginning in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, in...
Pearlman put the ARP in ARP synthesizers, and his legacy lives on today. Alan R. Pearlman was the pioneering synthesizer builder and engineer whose initials inspired...
One of the world’s most respected sound designers created some of the D-50’s most recognizable sounds. For 21 years beginning in 1984, Spectrasonics founder Eric Persing...
