Synthesizers

If you ever entertained your fellow students at school (while annoying teachers) with an impromptu performance…

Like electronic music pioneers Robert Moog and Don Buchla, who came before him, Joseph Paradiso seemed destined to…

There are plenty of wild rumors, mythologies, and eyebrow-raising stories from the long history of music, including…

If you’ve never played around with Teenage Engineering’s tiny synthesizers—like its iPod-sized Pocket Operators or…

If half your work day is spent thinking up ways to troll and annoy your co-workers, today’s going to be an easy one. …

For electronic musicians who still like being able to perform with dials and buttons, Teenage Engineering’s Pocket…

UK design shop Dorothy has a new cutaway schematic print that reveals the inner working of the Minimoog analog…

Originally released way back in 1970, the unique sound of the Minimoog analog synthesizer means the hardware is…

Moog’s first iPad app, called the Animoog, did an incredible job smashing together iPad tech and old analog…

With software these days you can recreate almost any sound you want. The hulking equipment that used to produce…

You know the sound. Listen to Devo’s “Whip It” or Parliament’s “Flash Light.” Like countless modern pop songs,…

Critter & Guitari’s Brooklyn-based workshop is the source of beautiful, if borderline esoteric electronic…

Roland has a trio of new synthesizers called the Boutique Series. They are affordable miniaturized versions of three…

Launched in late 2013, the littleBits Synth Kit lets you snap together the different components of a synthesizer…

Last year, Korg set out to recreate the Arp Odyssey, a legendary synth that went out of production back in 1981. How…

Earlier this month, Moog announced that it would be reissuing an extremely limited number of rebooted instruments…

Moog's newly announced modular synthesizers aren't really new at all. They're recreated versions of giant hardware…

There are few things I love in life more than Steve McQueen movies. And there's nothing else out there that sounds…

Usually, if you're building your own synthesizer, you have aspirations of composing the next great techno track. But…

London-based duo Dentaku have made digital instruments out of beer bottles, text messages, and color-sensing robots.…