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 ...

One reason the x86 PC became the dominant game platform in the early 1990s was the availability of affordable sound cards like the AdLib and Sound Blaster. These provided a quantum leap in sound ...

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 ...

Getting your groove going with a modular synth can involve lots of patch cables or a screen full of intimidating controls, depending on whether you're playing with hardware or software. Or it could be ...

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 ...

[Matt Bradshaw]’s entry in the Hackaday Prize is Polymod, a modular digital synthesizer which combines the modularity of an analog synth with the power of a digital synth. Each module (LFO, Envelope ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When I reviewed the ZOIA, I said there was nothing else quite like it on the market. And that's still largely true, but the Beebo from Poly ...

The world of sound fascinates Patrick LeMieux, an associate professor of cinema and digital media who researches, teaches and makes games at UC Davis. Lately he’s been thinking about how people play ...

Opening on what would be his 85th birthday, the Moogseum commemorates the inventor who’s been a staple of pop music from the 1960s to today. Visiting Asheville, North Carolina, in December, I walked ...