synths

Free Piloslib for Pd makes patching easier – and sounds totally hardcore

The modular sound environment Pd (Pure data) is wonderful. Pd is free. Pd runs everywhere. Pd is ... frequently lacking...

These custom keycaps give synth controls to your mechanical computer keyboard

Here is one tasty-looking custom keycap design, adding the faders, knobs, and synth-y visuals your mechanical keyboard so desperately wants....

GEMA is a delay pedal effect-synth that rumbles like an earthquake, by Senyawa x Squaresolid

From Yogyakarta, Indonesia comes a glitchy, powerful delay effect unlike any other. It's a stompbox with an earthquake setting. And...

MOD Devices made a guitar synth you can actually play like a synth – so your guitar is the CV

It's the sound and expression of a modular synth, but you can mix it with guitar sounds and play it...

Hands-on tour of the Oberheim OB-X8 architecture, feature by feature, with Francis Preve

The first new Oberheim instrument in 35 years is something special. So let's get an exclusive tour of what this...

Oberheim is back with OB-X8, combining three 1980s legends into one analog polysynth

Do call it a comeback. Oberheim returns to the world of synthesizers – both for those who love the name,...

Roland’s AIRA Compact: bite-sized versions of TR drum machine, JUNO-60 synth, vocal FX

They're smaller and cheaper than the Boutique series and first-gen AIRA, they're battery-powered, and they pack a surprising amount of...