Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

Is there such a thing as the “Whole Lotta Love” of synth riffs? Something akin to “Smoke On The Water”, “Iron Man”, or “Back In Black”? Some of you might put the very premise in the category of ...

Dave Smith, a pioneer of the synthesizer, revolutionized pop music in the 1980s. David Bowie and Madonna are among the legions who used his... Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the ...

Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, drum machines, and other ...

After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

An image from the film “Resynator” shows Alison Tavel with components of the synthesizer her father invented. (Photo courtesy of Select a Shape Pictures) When Alison Tavel asked family members about ...

Even the promo pictures look pretty '80s. Here’s some pretty big news for iOS musicians: AudioKit’s Digital D1 synth is now an Audio Unit. What? That means that, instead of running as a standalone app ...

Tom Oberheim is getting back into the synthesiser business at the age of 85 and is as keen as ever to bring the Oberheim brand to a whole new generation of musicians. Oberheim instruments were created ...