Technologies come and go. The evolution of listening to recorded music from vinyl records, eight-track tapes, cassettes, CDs and the iPod are an indication. The same goes for instruments that have ...

“It” is the sound of the analog synthesizer, a machine originally designed to mimic acoustic instruments but whose unique timbres — created by routing electronically-generated tones through filters ...

Key Takeaways Modern guitar synth pedals no longer require special pickups and work with standard guitar inputs, making ...

The word “vintage” has carried drastically different meanings within the world of musical instruments. In the realm of electric and acoustic guitars and amplifiers, “vintage” in recent years has ...

Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers’ Homewood workshop is filled with the whirring sounds of electronic music. Founder Richard Nicol started the company in his basement in 2012. Now, he and his team ...

This time last year, I walked into a Toronto store called Moog Audio and walked out with a Teenage Engineering OP-1—a curious little portable digital synthesizer that looks, at first glance, like a ...

The $650 XD looks very similar to the original Minilogue. It has the same metal front plate, wooden back, minimal black knobs and lightly textured switches as the rest of the line. It's a design ...

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 ...