Just a year ago, I wrote about how 85-year-old Tom Oberheim was back in the business of making synthesizers. These electronic instruments were incredibly popular from their conception in the 1960s to ...

Did you ever wonder how a synthesizer works? It’s all just “electronic noise,” right? Well, yes, it totally is. But if you’d like to know a bit more than that, Berlin-based Ableton will teach you. The ...

Asheville, NC, November 17, 2022 — Originally released in 1970, the Minimoog Model D changed the face of modern music and has served as the archetype for all synthesizers that followed. The all-analog ...

The sound of pop music in the '80s was shaped by synthesizers – and one of the most impactful people behind that sound was inventor Dave Smith, creator of the Prophet-5 synthesizer and founder of ...

Zak Kiernan is a fan of adventure game Mice and Mystics, which inspired the name of his comfy-synth project, Derbyshire. Credit: Photo by Wulfka Zak Kiernan, 37, moved to Chicago in 2012 and has ...