I’d always loved music but it was hearing Prince - and more importantly seeing his video for “1999” with the prominent placement of Oberheims - that I fell in love with synthesizers. My first was a Korg Poly-800 and I haven’t looked back since. These days my studio is full of mostly Japanese synths from the 1980s (I live in Japan, after all) but really, I love all kinds. Analog, digital, whatever.
My musical tastes tend towards the electronic. The first record I released was a Chicago acid throwback in 1993. Since then, I’ve done techno, breaks, drum and bass, dubstep and even Krautrock but the genre I keep coming back to is ambient. Leave me alone with a droning synth and I’m endlessly happy.
Four new effects join the bundle, bringing Arturia FX Collection 5 to 34 dynamics, modulation, delay, reverb, filter and distortion plugins. It’s a fantastic collection but are the new plugins worth the ...
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Erica Synths Bullfrog Drums joins the Bullfrog educational ecosystem. Richie Hawtin: “It only makes sense to add a drum machine”.
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Big polys dominated the show floor with the best synths of Superbooth24 coming from Arturia, Melbourne Instruments and Oberheim… but what about Moog?
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Genius designer Love Hulten has made a “percussive harmonic device” called Crum2 with Analog Sweden and Albert Nyström. Please come to market!
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Polyend enters the world of hardware effects with Press, a compressor with “controls usually only seen in VSTs”.
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It’s official! Oberheim is releasing the TEO-5, a five-voice analogue poly in a Sequential Take 5 form factor. And the best part? It’s affordable! Read on to find out the price and specs.
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Grab ASM’s limited edition Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition and Hydrasynth Deluxe 5th Anniversary Silver Edition fast!
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Vocoder, filter bank and analogue spectral processor: the Moog Spectravox has it all. And now it can finally be yours.
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The hybrid polyphonic Minilogue XD gets a re-release from Korg, now with combo-organ (and Poly-800!) style inverted keys.
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Four synth engines, drum synthesis, stereo samples, a beefed up sequencer and USB audio get the Polyend Tracker+ right on track.
Take your synthesizer sounds to new heights with the 5 best pedals for synths, including offerings from Behringer, Zoom, Boss and Meris.
Technics collaborates with Automobili Lambhorgini on the SL-1200M7B, a special edition version of their SL-1200MK7.
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Fun, sea-themed graphics highlight Chompi/Chase Bliss collaboration, comes with firmware for routing through external effects.
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The Roland System 100M remains a high-water mark for both the company and analogue synthesizers in general. And yet its success was far from guaranteed. Read on to find out why.
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New kids on the block Wee Noise Makers want to put their beginner-friendly and hackable PGB-1 groovebox into your hands. The device has 19 sound engines, a sequencer and open-source code, and is crowd-sourcing ...
The Raspberry Pi micro computer is finding its way into more and more synthesizers. Do your synths have a slice of Pi inside? Read on to find out.
