The Macchiato Mini Synth has a similar aesthetic to the recently-revamped Stylophone, but offers audio nerds and sound geeks the chance to get their hands dirty and build their own for under US$40, or ...

Korg’s compact, DX7-inspired Volca FM first landed six years ago and it remains one of our favourite mini synths to this day. Now, like the Volca Sample before it, the FM is getting a ...

DJs and musicians are simply bonkers over percussion. Without percussion, modern pop tunes would be hard-pressed to deliver those all-important hooks. Small wonder then that Korg has just flaunted ...

The 80s were the golden age of synthesizers in pop music. Hugely complicated setups that spared no expense were the norm, with synths capable of recreating anything from pianos and guitars to ...

DIY electronic music makers, warm up your soldering irons: A pair of hardware hacking designers have created a miniature two-button, solar-powered synthesizer with a 3-D printed wrist-strap housing, ...

The project shows how the Mini Controller is made to interface with any synthesizer with 1V/octave input. The MFOS Mini Controller utilizes a stylus probe and PCB keyboard contacts that is similar to ...

When you're new to making music, affordable gadgets provide a nice introduction without a hefty investment. As far as tiny synths go, Teenage Engineering's $59 Pocket Operators are an easy sell, but ...

A music technology developer by the name Mitxela (real name Tim Alex Jacobs) has created the world’s “smallest and silliest”, fully functional USB-C MIDI Synth. The miniature creation is made up of a ...

The Prophet VS alike was announced over a year ago and there are now two new demos, but can you actually buy it? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Behringer has teased a Roland Jupiter-8 inspired analogue mini synth named Saturn. The $99 (£74) synth includes three VCOs, a multimode filter, a built-in arpeggiator and a 16-step motion sequencer.

The likes of Korg and Moog have their own synthesizer apps for iOS devices, and now there's a new option for loading up a virtual instrument on those mobile devices. Electro-Harmonix has released a ...