A supersaw on steroids, this new soft synth captures Cook’s signature sound, heard on records from Charli XCX, Caroline ...

Synth wizards Critter & Guitari have launched a successor to the company's first product – the Pocket Piano – in the shape of a portable music box called the 201, which sports six sound engines, a ...

To understand synthesizers, one needs to understand Bob Moog and the 1950s. Growing up a nerdy teenager in upstate New York, when the hobbyist culture around build-it-yourself electronics was at its ...

Mack Bartsch doesn't just make electronic music: the 16-year-old DJ also makes electronic instruments. Bartsch, who goes by the stage name spaceprodigi, recently constructed a synthesizer as part of ...

Alan Turing is known for a few small achievements, like helping end World War II, laying the groundwork for modern computers and developing the "Turing test" for machine intelligence. You may not be ...

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 ...

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He's previously made music mobile with a synth bike, and built a nightmarish noise-maker called the Furby Organ. Now Brit sonic scientist Sam Battle has tapped into the sound synthesis guts of a Sega ...