Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

Dave Smith, an engineer who helped create the Prophet-5 synthesizer, which became a staple of 1980s pop music, as well as the MIDI electronic system that allowed drum machines, keyboards, sequencers — ...

When you hear a rock song that includes the synthesizer, you can almost always guess that the song in question is from a certain era. Probably from the 1980s, give or take, the track is defined by and ...

You see a song title like “1980s Horror Film” and you probably expect icy John Carpenter synthesizers. Wallows don’t care about what you expect. The young LA trio — made up of drummer Cole Preston and ...

Dave Smith, a pioneer of the synthesizer, revolutionized pop music in the 1980s. David Bowie and Madonna are among the legions who used his... Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the ...

You see a song title like “1980s Horror Film” and you probably expect icy John Carpenter synthesizers. Wallows don’t care about what you expect. The young LA trio — made up of drummer Cole Preston and ...

The 1980s was a defining decade for popular culture, but its impact was heavily felt in music. It saw the new romantics, Live Aid, Madonna, the rise of hip-hop, and the birth of MTV. The constant ...

Handy diagnostic LEDs on the side of the tone generator boards. (Credit: Mend it Mark, YouTube) Somehow, an Elka Synthex analog synthesizer made it onto [Mend it Mark]’s repair bench recently. It had ...

Leeds, United Kingdom, October 29, 2024 — Rhodes Music, in collaboration with Cherry Audio, is excited to announce the rebranding of the Chroma plug-in as Rhodes Chroma by Cherry Audio. This virtual ...

Tom Oberheim is getting back into the synthesiser business at the age of 85 and is as keen as ever to bring the Oberheim brand to a whole new generation of musicians. Oberheim instruments were created ...