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: Modular analog synthesizers are big, expensive, unreliable ...

Everyone loves playing music stoned, but the (high) times they are a-changing. No disrespect to Bob Dylan covers strummed on “the quad” or psychedelic arsenals of guitar pedals, but these are ...

Celebrating the company's DIY legacy, Moog Music has launched a semi-modular build-it-yourself analog synthesizer called Mavis, which delivers the unmistakable Moog sound in a compact, wallet-friendly ...

On this week’s episode of Lost Notes, composer and synth wizard Suzanne Ciani tells contributor Michelle Macklem the story of her journey in modular synthesis. Ciani’s story is one of breaking through ...

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I’ve been a fan of abstract electronic music for decades, but I generally associate the genre with late-night radio, art spaces, or off nights at music clubs. In early November, a close friend, dub ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

Derrick Estrada’s downtown loft is like the Starship Enterprise for synth nerds. In the living room, shelves and desktops are lined with his collection of modular synthesizers and rare drum machines.

Spain's Reactable Systems first blipped on our sonar in 2006 with the launch of the "seeing is believing" tabletop modular synthesizer. Where large format modular synths like the Moog System 55 can be ...

The sounds of Matthew Ryals’ modular synthesizer are never too riling. In fact, the sequences heard in his nine-part series labeled “Generative Etudes” revolve through states of playfulness, ...

The cosmic commandos at Moog Music are bringing back some classic synthesizers from the golden age of electronic music. These aren't just any keyboards, mind you, but three Cadillacs of bleep-bloop, ...

In recent weeks, ambient modular synth videos have started popping up more frequently on YouTube. The videos center on the gear, with hands coming in and out of frame to slowly adjust a knob or push a ...