Good news for all aspiring Moogs and Moroders: Swedish hardware designers Teenage Engineering have created one of the most accessible pocket synthesizers to date. The Pocket Operator (PO) line ...

Thankfully there’s also studio mode. Studio mode is great.

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The 201 Musical Synthesizer is currently raising funds on Kickstarter. Housed within an anodized aluminum box are its ARM Cortex-A7 processing brains supported by 512 MB of RAM while storage comes ...

Synth Library NYC aims to demystify these sometimes complicated, often expensive instruments into the hands of anyone who wants to try one. Synth Library now has 650 members. Once a month, several ...

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The early models of the synthesizer were not given a warm welcome. In the 1950s, technological developments improved the quality and usability of synthesizers. But the instrument was frequently met ...

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

While synthesizers in the music world are incredibly common, they’re not all keyboard-based instruments as you might be imagining. Especially if you’re trying to get a specific feel or sound from a ...

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 ...