Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: Modular analog synthesizers are big, expensive, unreliable ...

It’s Modular Synth Day on FACT! We’re marking the first birthday of our Make Music section with a celebration of modular synths, the artists that patch with them and they music they make. Find it all ...

On this week’s episode of Lost Notes, composer and synth wizard Suzanne Ciani tells contributor Michelle Macklem the story of her journey in modular synthesis. Ciani’s story is one of breaking through ...

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 ...

Undoubtedly the most high profile hardware release of the year, the TR-1000 is Roland ’s new flagship drum machine, combining ...

A few years ago, Moog dipped into its substantial synth archives and announced a limited production run of some 1970s modular behemoths. Now, nearly 50 years after the Moog 10 compact modular ...

The cosmic commandos at Moog Music are bringing back some classic synthesizers from the golden age of electronic music. These aren't just any keyboards, mind you, but three Cadillacs of bleep-bloop, ...

Derrick Estrada’s downtown loft is like the Starship Enterprise for synth nerds. In the living room, shelves and desktops are lined with his collection of modular synthesizers and rare drum machines.

What if you had a spaceship console installed in a sunlit corner of your living room? And what if, with the twist of a few knobs, you could navigate to the outer reaches of consciousness, all without ...

From synths to software via cute, one-off effects units and beyond, 2018 is shaping up to be a memorable year for music makers. Scott Wilson picks out the most exciting new studio gear to look out for ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

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