For music geeks, building a synthesizer has always been a way to experiment with sound, far beyond what commercial synths will allow. But for those who have never picked up a soldering iron, it can be ...

A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a DIY kit, and [LOOK MUM NO ...

[Ivan Franco] sent us this great synthesizer project that he’s working on. Or maybe it’s more like a synthesizer meta-project: a synthesizer construction set. You see, what Pryth has is a Raspberry Pi ...

Make Magazine is now selling their Cellular Automata video synthesizer kit, allowing people to create musical tones from shifting video patterns. Donald Bell Senior Editor / How To Donald Bell has ...

Building a synthesizer is a lot of work. It seems pretty safe to assume, but if you had any doubts, just watch this one come together from scratch like the behemoth of circuit boards it is.

Last year, Sweden's Teenage Engineering launched a range of barebones electronic sound generators that were teeny enough to slide in a pocket. Fellow Scandinavian Jan Ostman has now managed to reduce ...

A new DIY synth kit has launched on Indiegogo called makeAsynth, and the maker needs your help in reaching the $1,000 goal. The chief aim of the JVS-01 is to be accessible to all; it's designed to be ...

Musicians and makers interested in building their very own DIY synthesizer may be interested in a new Raspberry Pi project published to the Hackster.io website this month. The custom Raspberry Pi ...

The start of the new year means that many of us have resolved to learn a new skill or two, so the launch of Erica Synths and Moritz Klein’s DIY educational synth kits seems pretty timely. Designed to ...

The new NTH Music Synthesizer uses simple circuitry packaged in an intuitive interface to produce evil tones that would sound perfect in an old arcade game. The second you see this thing in action, ...