SYNTH WEEK 2024: The '90s: rave culture, Britpop and a cultural move from the right to the left, all of which had an effect on the music industry at large. But as we cast our minds all the way back to ...

Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired instructor Dan Butler teaches his students how to make groovy tunes.

Collection 6 also features SGX-2, an acoustic piano instrument based on the SGX-2 Premium Piano Engine from Korg's Kronos and ...

Superbooth 2025: Polyend Synth was released in late 2024 and immediately became one of our favourite new releases of last year. In comparison to other Polyend grooveboxes like Tracker and Play, which ...

Few sub-genres of music are as timeless and inventive as the world of synth-pop. One could say that the electronic movement is having a renaissance in 2023—as it seems like every artist working today ...

CV/Gate, DCB, USI, UMI and The Oberheim System… This is the story of how synth’s biggest players narrowly averted a standards war and made sweet music together When you purchase through links on our ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It might not be as widely revered as the Minimoog, but for hardcore synth fans, the EMS VCS3 is ...

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Along with singer Mark Almond, Soft Cell was best known for the 1981 hit song “Tainted Love.”  Almond announced his musical partner’s death Thursday.

AudioKit Synth One, a free and open-source iPad synth, is now available for download in the Apple App Store, developer Matthew Fecher has announced. The Synth One, which Fecher describes as “the ...

AudioKit Synth One was a minor breakthrough for mobile music making as a free, open source synthesizer that could compete with the heavyweights, but its iPad-only nature limited its audience. You'll ...