We have always loved the connection between the development of technology and the way it is harnessed by artists. The early electronic music pioneers had to develop all sorts of clever techniques to ...

Electro-Harmonix’s 9 Series of instrument modelling stompboxes has been expanded again, this time with a unit designed to recreate the sounds of orchestral and synthesizer strings. EHX expands its ...

And after seven years of collecting sounds, Suzuki asked himself what an instrument that could “play” them would look like. And to create this instrument, which he calls the Global Synthesizer, he ...

The Strings section ranges from a simple square-wave Violin, through Viola, Cello, Brass and Organ, and finally into a range of shimmering Choir sounds. It also features an Ensemble effect with String ...

Robert Moog, a maverick engineer who made electronics sing in the psychedelic era of the 1960s through the pioneering synthesizer that bears his name and caused a revolution in electronic sound, has ...

Behringer just released the UB-1 Micro portable synthesizer. It's based on the Oberheim Matrix and is extremely ...

Arturia has never been known for its recreations of acoustic instruments (though, there are decent pianos included as part of its V Collection). And frankly, that’s probably not going to change after ...

We go crashing back to the 90s with some classic house staples: trebly pianos and synth string pads. This collection features three pianos in loop/line and multisample forms. The multisamples are ...

NSynth Super is a synthesizer about 20 cm square in size. It is a machine that is used as a "sound module" without a keyboard for playing, and data is stored to create sound inside. A display with a ...

One of the key outside contributors to our Africa issue (get it now) was a good dude named Brian Shimkovitz, who lives in Brooklyn but currently resides at Awesome Tapes From Africa. He was ...

In May 1982 (just when old-school post-punk keyboard groups were starting to take off), the Musicians’ Union in London called for the synthesizer to be banned.