SYNTH WEEK 2024: The hardware synthesizer market is one of the most exciting in music production, with incredible flagship models constantly being released, full to the brim with the latest technology ...

After a short teaser campaign promising a "paradigm shift," Italy's IK Multimedia has unveiled the UNO Synth, its first hardware synthesizer. The monophonic synthesizer is battery-powered for music ...

Undoubtedly the most high profile hardware release of the year, the TR-1000 is Roland ’s new flagship drum machine, combining ...

FM synthesis can be notoriously tricky. For all the success of Yamaha's DX7 in the 1980s, its bafflingly mathematical system of operators and algorithms, and the seemingly endless parameter menus, ...

Telepathic Instruments, an electronic instruments company co-founded by Kevin Parker of Tame Impala, along with Ignacio Germade, Chris Adams, Charl Laubscher, Tom Cosm, is releasing a new synthesizer, ...

For all the musicians out there, here’s a great use for your Raspberry Pi. All the features you would expect from a nice analog synth are implemented in a Raspberry Pi-based polysynth – dual ...

For those who grew up with video games, the legendary sounds of consoles past are an instant nostalgia hit. [Thea Flowers] first got her hands on a gamepad playing Sonic the Hedgehog, so the sounds of ...

Getting your groove going with a modular synth can involve lots of patch cables or a screen full of intimidating controls, depending on whether you're playing with hardware or software. Or it could be ...

The iPad should make for a terrible musical instrument. As marvelous as it can be for everyday tasks, the small-ish multitouch screen lacks the tactile feedback you normally get when you play music.

While I do love my PC gaming, my affinity for hardware doesn't stop there. It extends into most facets of my life, but one of my favourites has to be music. Synthesisors are easily one of the coolest ...