This new edition of Vintage Synthesizers is the ultimate exploration of the upstart instruments – and their unique analog growls and screams – that paved the...
Electronic music instruments weren’t called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich Termen’s development of the Etherphone, now...
The story of Sequential Circuits, the leading synthesizer manufacturer of the 1980s. One of the great American synthesizer companies, founded and led by San Francisco electronics...
Although we live in an age of innovation and disruption, many folks are content using new technologies to consume rather than create – especially musicians. Case...
What do David Bowie, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Radiohead, The Troggs, The Human League, The Osmonds and The Beach Boys have in common? They’ve all...
Step sequencers are a special treat: they offer a simplified approach to composition that can be the basis for fun and creative music-making. Using the Max/MSP visual programming...
Make your own sounds quickly on any synthesizer, anytime, anywhere Let’s face it. You want to make awesome sounds for your track, but they always end...
Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of learning to create sounds on a...
Piano & Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies makes it easier and more fun than ever to make music! If you don’t know how to read music, this book...
Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed...
Music Production can be an elusive art form for many, and the challenges that face someone who is new to this can easily create overwhelm and...
Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow...
From the pages of Keyboard magazine, Keyboard Presents Synth Gods, spotlighting artists who did much more than just play synthesizers… …they changed the course of music...
The easy way to get keyed up on the keyboard… Where Piano For Dummies helps budding musicians to master the black-and-white musical keyboard, Keyboard For Dummies helps them understand the...
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon’s speech scrambling weapon The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from...
