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

For music geeks, building a synthesizer has always been a way to experiment with sound, far beyond what commercial synths will allow. But for those who have never picked up a soldering iron, it can be ...

The iPad should make for a terrible musical instrument. As marvelous as it can be for everyday tasks, the small-ish multitouch screen lacks the tactile feedback you normally get when you play music.

Following a leak earlier in the week, Moog has now confirmed its most compact keyboard synthesizer so far with the launch of the Subsequent 25 paraphonic analog synth. The Subsequent 25 is based on ...

MusicRadar's Matt Mullen and Andy Price have been roving the show floor – here are their music technology highlights ...

A second push-dial on the top of the speaker is used to operate the rhythm machine. This offers 50 patterns and several great-sounding kits (both acoustic and electronic) and, in terms of being a ...

The Peanuts cartoon character Schroeder liked to bang out Beethoven a toy piano. Now, thanks to this hack from [Liam Lacey], Schroeder can switch to Skrillex. That’s because [Liam] built a polyphonic ...

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 ...

Teenage Engineering has carved a solid reputation for itself as a brand that makes meticulously crafted gear with a playfully creative side, including audio gear. The OP-1 synthesizer is one such ...

His powerful, affordable instruments made memorable sounds for Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, David Bowie, King Crimson and many others. By Jon Pareles Peter Zinovieff, a composer and inventor whose ...