Samples and presets definitely have their place, but if you want to create an original bass sound that's particular and tailored to your latest masterpiece, you're going to have to build one from the ...

Mathematician and early AI theorist David Rothenberg was fascinated by pattern-recognition algorithms. By 1968, he’d already done lots of work in missile trajectories (as one did back then), speech, ...

Handy diagnostic LEDs on the side of the tone generator boards. (Credit: Mend it Mark, YouTube) Somehow, an Elka Synthex analog synthesizer made it onto [Mend it Mark]’s repair bench recently. It had ...

Sam Ash announces that the Electro-Harmonix MicroSynth analog guitar pedal is now available as part of its broader selection ...

Don Buchla—who created the first modular synthesizer in 1963, the same year that Robert Moog was inventing his modular synth—passed away September 14. He was 79. Below hear some outstanding examples ...

If your band doesn't have a keyboard player but your guitarist wants to rock the house with the spirit of Rick Wakeman or Jean-Michel Jarre, you can use something like Fishman's excellent TriplePlay ...

Watch this video on YouTube. “Offering a universe of rich, analog-inspired polyphonic tones in a small footprint, the SY-200 makes it simple to weave BOSS’s expressive guitar and bass synth technology ...

This music synthesizer project utilizes a laptop touchpad and an infrared distance sensor to control tone, volume, and decay length of musical notes. This music synthesizer project utilizes a laptop ...

Getting your groove going with a modular synth can involve lots of patch cables or a screen full of intimidating controls, depending on whether you're playing with hardware or software. Or it could be ...

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: I can still remember how excited I was the first time I ...

The Original ARP Odyssey synthesizer debuted in 1972 and defined the sound of the era, adding mystical swooshes and bright passages to the funk of Herbie Hancock, the futurepop of Kraftwerk, and ...