NI has retired Absynth soft synth after 22 years; here’s a statement from its creator
Music software instruments are entering something of a mid-life crisis – and one landmark is the cancellation this week of...
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Join Afrorack and tour the Swiss Museum & Center for Electronic Music Instruments – from home!
It's Afrorack gone Swiss! Afrorack aka Brian Bamanya has a fantastic video sweeping through the world's largest synth collection. And...
Shazam is 20 years old: history, trivia, and tips
It was 20 years ago today - Shazam, now an Apple subsidiary, first launched and changed how the world identifies...
The Daily Show takes on the Black and gay origins of house music
"You've never heard me say - surprise, it's Caucasians!" The always-on-point Roy Wood Jr. tackles the origins of house music...
Watch Troika Ranch’s history in dance technology, then dust off your Wiimote with Isadora
Return to the days of MIDI-controlled LaserDisc players - Mark Coniglio, creator of Isadora, walks through this history of the...
Trace the Black roots of disco, house, and techno in videos and reading – summer school is in
What a week - the Juneteenth commemoration in the US, Chicago house music interest trending as it's repurposed for new...
Darwin Grosse, musical visionary and voice for Max and DIY learning, has passed away
The most powerful impact anyone can have in music is not just to find their own voice but to help...
Dave Smith brought us all closer together; Sequential and MIDI legend has died
Dave Smith was someone who brought all of us in electronic music instruments closer – and I don’t only mean...
Vangelis has died at 79, as the electronic music world mourns
The legendary Greek composer and electronic musician Vangelis Papathanassiou is the latest of a generation to leave us in 2022....
May the 4th be with you, in a new documentary on the sounds of Skywalker
From Ben Burtt’s creations for Star Wars to Bonnie Wild’s work on The Mandalorian to sound editor André Fenley and...
