It’s a physical modeling synth that sounds organic, but you don’t need to wear Birkenstocks with socks to read this in-depth review by Jim Aikin. Also,...
Mark Jenkins profiles one of the labels actively keeping the classic electronic music scene alive France has always been a leading region for innovation in electronic...
One-stop shopping: tune your vocals and give them that robot sound you’ve heard from Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, ELO… You know the vocoder sound and you know...
Synth and Software contributor Mark Jenkins provides some exciting page-flipping adventures to keep you off the streets and out of trouble. Under lockdown conditions there’s nothing...
X201 re-creates the Sennheiser VSM 201 made famous by Kraftwerk and Daft Punk. XILS Lab, the company that makes the Syn’X, XILS 3, and PolyKB III...
Catching up with classic and new releases from some of Germany’s finest electronic musicians. Since the earliest availability of electronic instruments, musicians in Germany have always...
This pioneering Belgian synthesist has worked with Bowie, Dolby, Deep Forest, and Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider. When he bought an EMS VCS3 in 1970, Daniel Lacksman became...
Kraftwerk cofounder Florian Schneider died in April after a brief bout with cancer. You’ve likely heard that Florian Schneider, one of the founding members of Kraftwerk,...
Behringer re-creates another vintage keyboard, this one pairing analog vocal and string ensemble sounds with a vocoder. The VC340 is one of the latest in Behringer’s...
If you’re a fan of vintage synth sounds, Arturia is having a fantastic sale you’ll want to know about. From now until November 4, all sound...
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...