The dream is tantalizing: a single keyboard that can handle all your music-production needs, providing great sounds and effects and an intuitive sequencer...
A new generation of analog modular synthesizers has quietly come of age. Such instruments update the best of vintage designs by offering modern circuitry...
Occasionally, a musical-instrument manufacturer introduces a product that marks a real departure from its usual fare, an instrument that elevates the...
In 1995 an obscure Swedish company named Clavia breathed new life into a traditional synthesizer form with the introduction of its Nord Lead synthesizer....
Produced: 1970-79Made in: United StatesDesigned by: Harold RhodesNumber produced: more than 100,000System: hammer action, electric pickupsPrice new: $500-$1,800...
Because Moog Music created the Prodigy without any assistance from the company's namesake and founder, Robert Moog, the Prodigy inspires heated debate about the legitimacy of its pedigree....
Modular analog synthesis is alive and well in the 21st century. There was a time when a synthesizer was a collection of modules filled with dozens of...
Korg has tripled the Triton's CPU power but left the proven audio engine, devoting the additional mojo to a sophisticated MIDI processor that redefines how the synth interacts with its player....
The Hammond players I know fall into two categories. One group likes to discuss the number of notches on a tonewheel and which organs came with a bench...
Korg's Triton synthesizers are among the most powerful music workstations ever made. Harness their power with these special programming tips and tricks....
It's easier to be spontaneous when all you have to do is press a couple of buttons and go. From the mid-1970s until the early 90s, Oberheim was one of...
There are plenty of reasons why musicians use MIDI percussion controllers. Some use them to record natural-sounding drum patterns into a sequencer. Others...
The sounds are vastly complex and produced, and the unit's humanistic formant-shaping-synthesis technology is fascinating and different. Dig beneath the...
