This Crazy Polish Video Sums Up Why We Want a KORG ARP Odyssey
Analog synthesizers are superior because of their pristine, high-fidelit — Oh, f*** it, who are we kidding? We want to wail on an ARP Odyssey with ridiculous modulation that turns it into a groovy,...
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Antiques Roadshow? Yamaha to Celebrate Its Synth Legacy with Vintage Gear
Hey – don’t forget Yamaha. For all the buzz about Roland and KORG (and American makers like Moog), the titan Japanese maker surely deserves its own enormous claim to synthesizer history. This is the...
View ArticleThis 1971 Dancing Rectangle from Poland Predicts Modern Techno, AV
Sonic history in electronic music may be made with technology, but it’s also the output of someone’s brain. As such, it’s natural that liberated creativity can produce all kinds of possibilities. And...
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The Last Time Roland Did Modular: The System 100
With widespread reports that Roland will soon have a new modular product, it’s worth remembering: Roland has done modular before. That legacy carried the name System-100. The original 100 semi-modular...
View ArticleHas Anyone Else Noticed a Creeping Trend in the Music Tech Industry?
I’m going to keep this article atypically short (as I finish up some other writing). Is it just me, or is everyone’s studio turning into the above? I know I’m not the first to say this. Side note: why...
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Free Clapping Music App Teaches You Steve Reich – And Rhythm
What’s the sound of one person performing Clapping Music? This. Before there was Rock Band and Guitar Hero, there was Steve Reich. His 1972 work Clapping Music is a rhythmic etude, and like all...
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BAM is OTO Machines’ musical, retro reverb box
Reverb: it’s something everyone needs. And yet in hardware, you almost always see the same couple of boxes. It seems about time for a new player. And OTO Machines, known for their BISCUIT 8-bit effect...
View ArticleWith the Minimoog reissue, there are now two Moogs
At the moment when synthesizers are getting more economical, Moog are firmly establishing what the synth as luxury item looks like – and it’s this. The Minimoog model D is an exact recreation of the...
View ArticleMeet the guy you can blame for all those air horn sounds everywhere
The air horn is one of the weirder cultural tropes around today. It’s loud, it’s obnoxious – and it’s also ubiquitous, from radio ads to pop songs. It’s clearly out of its original context, but what...
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Arturia add CMI, DX7, Clavinet – and Buchla Easel – in software
Arturia refreshed their mega-collection of synths and keyboard instruments, with new sought-after additions – including a recreation of the Buchla Easel. Get ready for some numbers and letters here...
View ArticleArturia’s Fairlight, Clavinet, DX-7, and Buchla Easel are each a steal
Arturia now offer these classic instruments individually – with another 50% off through January 10 – and have video tutorials to teach you how to use them. Let’s have a big round of applause for...
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The story of the Eventide gear that transformed music, coined “plug-ins”
From the extraordinary first digital breakthroughs of the 70s, when lightbulbs stood in for LEDs, to what may have been the first use of the word “plug-in,”* we the inventors of Eventide’s classics –...
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Roland’s new SYSTEM-500 modules, and why you might want them
There’s East Coast (Moog), there’s West Coast (Buchla) … and then there’s much further East. Roland’s SYSTEM-500 descends from the Japanese modular tradition. Now we have the details of their latest...
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7 Bob Moog images that say a lot about electronic music history
The story of electronic music making is ultimately a human one, even as those humans work with machines. So as the Bob Moog Foundation plans a Moog museum and expanded education, we share seven images...
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Free pack of sounds from the Polish Radio Experimental Studio
Think of it as the BBC Radiophonic Workshop of the east: the Polish Radio Experimental Studio produced unparalleled electronic sounds and inventions for decades. Recognition of those accomplishments is...
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Synth pioneer Alan R. Pearlman, founder of ARP, has died
One of the great names in synthesis, founder of a brand that helped define what electronic sound is today, was lost over the weekend. ARP Instruments founder Alan R. Pearlman died Saturday the 5th, and...
View ArticleWith the Minimoog reissue, there are now two Moogs
At the moment when synthesizers are getting more economical, Moog are firmly establishing what the synth as luxury item looks like – and it’s this. The Minimoog model D is an exact recreation of the...
View ArticleMeet the guy you can blame for all those air horn sounds everywhere
The air horn is one of the weirder cultural tropes around today. It’s loud, it’s obnoxious – and it’s also ubiquitous, from radio ads to pop songs. It’s clearly out of its original context, but what...
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Arturia add CMI, DX7, Clavinet – and Buchla Easel – in software
Arturia refreshed their mega-collection of synths and keyboard instruments, with new sought-after additions – including a recreation of the Buchla Easel. Get ready for some numbers and letters here...
View ArticleArturia’s Fairlight, Clavinet, DX-7, and Buchla Easel are each a steal
Arturia now offer these classic instruments individually – with another 50% off through January 10 – and have video tutorials to teach you how to use them. Let’s have a big round of applause for...
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