Synth and Software contributors sound off on their choices We asked several of our top contributors to write a couple of paragraphs about why they use...
The Haken Continuum, a polyphonic instrument with independent “multidimensional” control for each finger, has earned a hardcore following ContinuuCon 2023, the fifth international Haken Continuum Conference,...
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...
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...
Mark Jenkins flies in all the way from London to attend Los Angeles’ busy post-covid (we hope!) music tech show Well, wouldn’t you know it. No...
Mark Jenkins traces the history of pocket-size sound makers 180-pound six foot weighted keyboard controllers are still a going concern, but there’s also a trend toward...
It’s a sample library of Chas Smith’s unique metal instruments, as used in many film scores If you aren’t impressed by the audio demos – and...
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...
Every synth is unique, but here are Mark Jenkins’ (and our) favorite general tips to make creating sounds easy and fun Early synthesists were often asked...
A different way of approaching your digital audio sequencing software and its plug-in processors There’s an interesting feature in the forthcoming CLAP open plug-in format: polyphonic...
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...
Put it together yourself (no soldering), use it stand-alone or in a Eurorack Moog Music Mavis is aimed at beginners but not only beginners. If you...
It’s stand-alone for a desktop, of put it in a Eurorack Cre8 Audio has released a flurry of affordable Eurorack products recently. First came the East...
A further blow to the electronic music community has come with the death aged 79 of Vangelis from COVID-related complications [Editor’s note: I posted some brief...
Put this in your Eurorack: a reverb that separates the time and frequency (for interesting effects) The following extended prose (their press release) is all well...