synths

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...

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...

Watch this video with tricks to get more out of KORG’s west-coast volca modular

It's still some of the most fun you can get with patching on a budget - KORG's volca modular. But...

New Noise Engineering modules, new platform: multiband dynamics, drum kit

One of the most creative modular and software makers at the moment, Noise Engineering has two very desirable-looking modules hitting...

Nina, 12-voice analog polysynth with motorized controls, now in preorders

What's new in analog synths? Melbourne Instruments has one answer - a luscious vintage-inspired poly that adds path recall and...

Liquid Sky UFO modules: wild sounds, enough space for your fingers, plant a tree

In this first teaser for Liquid Sky's instrument label, the makers promises gear that raises some great questions. Like, what...

Modul8, new synth magazine from Australia, packed with interviews and features – on paper

Miss the days of flipping through paper pages and dreaming of electronic music and synths? Stuck in Victoria's COVID lockdown,...

The classic Buchla 208 / Music Easel gets a new DIY expansion – and it can sound totally evil

Plenty of classic moments in modular have been remade or cloned. This project goes further, and expands on the original...