Brooklyn-based instrument maker Landscape is on a mission to take modular synth sound creation in interesting new directions. It's bringing players closer to the action by essentially turning them ...

Kim Bjorn does many things, including as a designer and former design professor at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Copenhagen. But he’s also a musician and music lover who’s tapped his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When musicians and producers first turned to hardware synthesizers, the lure was the immediate creation of new timbres—a spark that could ignite an entire track. Yet even early analog beasts demanded ...

The world of guitar effects is weird. It's a place where old-school analog gear and crazy high-tech digital pedals are both fetishized with the same amount of zeal. Some companies, like Empress ...