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 ...

Composer David Borden's early synthesizer compositions, four of which are collected here, edged away from abstract atonal sounds and toward gestures that would become central to minimalism—simple ...

Key Takeaways Modern guitar synth pedals no longer require special pickups and work with standard guitar inputs, making ...

Waldorf has introduced a keyboard version of its Iridium synth. What’s more, it comes with polyphonic aftertouch. The Iridium Keyboard includes a 47-note Fatar TP/8SK keyboard, with the polyphonic ...

Mathematician and early AI theorist David Rothenberg was fascinated by pattern-recognition algorithms. By 1968, he’d already done lots of work in missile trajectories (as one did back then), speech, ...

Aaron Funk's latest album was created and performed live on a modular synth with no overdubbing and editing; it's one of the more beautiful records from the project in recent memory. Still, in this ...

This time last year, I walked into a Toronto store called Moog Audio and walked out with a Teenage Engineering OP-1—a curious little portable digital synthesizer that looks, at first glance, like a ...