If you like building things, electronic music and want to learn about synthesizers, a modular synthesizer is a perfect option for you. Audio synthesis is the creation of electronic sounds by ...

Amongst the many midlife crises I've stacked up in recent years - most of which have been accelerated by the pandemic - is a growing fascination with the world of synths. It started with one of ...

Now, anyone can play one of the biggest modular synthesizers in the world, thanks to a new project, code-named “PatchWerk.” With PatchWerk's simple web interface, users around the world can control ...

Folks who like to play around with synthesized sound usually like to get their hands dirty building hardware systems too, as evidenced by the many creations of YouTuber Sam Battle. Messing with ...

The analog synthesizer can be used solo or the 24-point patch bay can add two oscillators, full ADSR (attack decay sustain release) envelope, ladder filter, sample and hold functionality, wavefolding, ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

Now, to be clear, I'm not new to the world of synths. I own a few (including a couple of Volcas) and understand the principles at work. But I'm far more familiar with East Coast, or subtractive ...

Everyone loves playing music stoned, but the (high) times they are a-changing. No disrespect to Bob Dylan covers strummed on “the quad” or psychedelic arsenals of guitar pedals, but these are ...

As frontman for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Stu Mackenzie doesn’t have much time to focus on anything else. Since 2010, the shapeshifting Australian psych-rock disruptors have won a reputation ...

Starting your own festival is no small feat, especially one dedicated to what some consider “difficult” music. Yet organizer ...