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...
Roland’s first digital synthesizer changed the sound of the late 20th century. By 1987, Yamaha’s DX7 had been the most popular synthesizer on Earth for four...
Memories of the founding father of computer-based music. Max Vernon Mathews (born November 13, 1926; died April 21, 2011) was the Bell Labs scientist who invented computer...
To mark the occasion, they’re hosting an online Facebook event this weekend you won’t want to miss. On September 22, Yamaha’s world headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan,...
When it was launched in 1981, this legendary polysynth was Roland’s flagship synthesizer. Renowned for its lush and versatile sound, classic architecture, and easy-to-grasp layout, many...
A celebration of Moog synthesizers, the men who created them, and the musicians who play them. For three days in mid-August, dozens of synthusiasts gathered in...
In the mid-1970s, all the major synth manufacturers devoted substantial resources to developing some of the first polyphonic synthesizers. One of the most ambitious companies was...
