Remember those fabulous hits of the ’80s? Roland announces the JX-08 and JD-08 Sound Modules, the latest additions to the award-winning Roland Boutique lineup of compact electronic instruments. The JX-08...
Erica Synths is creating waves, from a perhaps unlikely location in Latvia. MARK JENKINS investigates some of the company’s greatest products… Latvia may seem an unlikely...
Anyone want to learn how to design analog synths from scratch? No experience required! If you see the brand name mki x es .EDU, that’s a co-developed series...
Modulation changes everything when you route control signals from sources to destinations. Original lesson from December 2019 Turning knobs by hand while a synthesizer is producing...
The appearance, functions, and thrills of a Eurorack system are free – as long as you think inside the box, and Jim Aikin does very hard...
Content Director Nick Batzdorf looks back at some of the more notable music tech trends and product introductions of the year. (What has he missed?) No...
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...
Plans are becoming clearer for the German instrument manufacturer MFB following the sad death in June of founding engineer Manfred Fricke. Mark Jenkins reports. Now Fricke’s...
Have you wondered about the striking music in “Missions,” the French sci-fi TV series? Mark Jenkins did, and here’s what he found out. In fact, have...
Joysticks are not only for gamers! They’ve been a popular and practical option for modulation and control in the world of electronic music since their very...
Does a Steiner-Parker filter sound different from a Moog filter? What are the various filter types and designs anyway? MARK JENKINS investigates… Arturia’s new PolyBrute and...
Mark Jenkins on creating those classic abstract synth sounds that can take the place of a drum fill Some of the earliest pure synthesizer music albums...
Nurse Ratchet is a trigger processor and generator, designed to add an organic chain of events (bursts) to your modular setup. When activated, either manually or with an...
New SSL module applies 1950’s era Soviet technology to a modern analog synth in a Eurorack format. The new SSL 2530 Tube VCA / Timbral Gate...
Spitfire Audio announces the availability of collaborative CONTEMPORARY DRAMA TOOLKIT. Spitfire Audio announces the availability of its first ‘full-blown’ library of 2021 with the timely release of CONTEMPORARY...