MIDI was created over thirty years ago to connect electronic instruments, synths, sequencers, and computers together. Of course, this means MIDI was meant to be used with computers that are now thirty ...

For the last few years, Skot Wiedmann at the University of Illinois has been teaching electronics and music to students using a build-it-yourself mini touch synth called the Hyve. Now he's taken the ...

[Matt Bradshaw]’s entry in the Hackaday Prize is Polymod, a modular digital synthesizer which combines the modularity of an analog synth with the power of a digital synth. Each module (LFO, Envelope ...

If, like me, you grew up watching Charlie Brown cartoons on TV, then you may have also got your very first taste of classical music from the virtuoso hands of a certain blond-haired, ...

Korg’s compact, DX7-inspired Volca FM first landed six years ago and it remains one of our favourite mini synths to this day. Now, like the Volca Sample before it, the FM is getting a ...

Released in 2018, Waldorf’s Quantum is a bona fide supersynth. Each of its three oscillators can draw on one of five synth algorithms - including the classic Waldorf-style wavetables - and you get ...

This new analogue synth has something novel up it's sleeve: it's novel! There’s no shortage of small recreations of classic synths. They’re often well priced but somewhat compromised by small keys and ...

For the first time in three decades, electronic instrument maker Moog is offering a new polyphonic synthesizer, the Moog One. While Moog is well known for innovating monophonic synths that are played ...

NAMM doesn't start until next week, but that's not keeping Korg from announcing new gear ahead of the show. The pro audio company usually reveals a new synth at the winter soirée, and it looks like ...

The history of vacuum tubes in synthesizers goes all the way back to 1939: the Hammond Novachord, one of the first polyphonic synths ever commercially manufactured, relied on an array of 163 vacuum ...

Like most advancements in music technology, the journey of virtual analogue synthesis is not a linear one – it's a story told through the various designs of many different manufacturers and brands. So ...

It's no secret that there's a growing interest in synths, drum machines and other electronic music instruments. There are many reasons for that -- most obviously because electronic music is now ...