synths

Inside Vostok’s Atlas, the quad filter module inspired by 80s Roland

Iconic 80s Japanese synths like the SH-101, JUPITER, JUNO, and TR drum machines were defined by both their filters and...

Finally, a silly synth so small you could swallow it (but please don’t)

Mitxela has continued a project to make the "smallest and worst" synthesizers possible - and he's one-upped himself this time....

The long lost, 478-key Moog-Rothenberg keyboard makes its return

A little-known invention by Bob Moog in collaboration with mathematician/theorist David Rothenberg has come back from the dead. With 478...

Tuning, polyphonic expression: Black Corporation’s Roman Filippov

The evolution of music is intertwined with the design and capabilities of instruments. After several decades of more constrained tuning...

Deluge synth-sequencer-sampler open-source community firmware is here

The Synthstrom Audible Deluge, a grid-based synth/sequencer/sampler, has its first official open-source, community-developed firmware - "and it's huge," the makers...