In 2008, Korg, the music industry's leading supplier of analog synthesizers, made waves—figuratively and literally—with its surprisingly robust DS-10, a synthesizer emulator for the original Nintendo ...

The “modern” music synthesizer began with the invention of RCA engineers Harry Olson and Herbert Belar in 1952, but it was Robert “Bob” Arthur Moog whose first commercially viable electronic music ...

Opening on what would be his 85th birthday, the Moogseum commemorates the inventor who’s been a staple of pop music from the 1960s to today. Visiting Asheville, North Carolina, in December, I walked ...

Wendy Carlos: A Biography, by Amanda Sewell. Oxford University Press. 264 pages. $34.95. Electronic music existed in the United States before the majority of Americans had access to electricity. The ...

A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a DIY kit, and [LOOK MUM NO ...

Mack Bartsch doesn't just make electronic music: the 16-year-old DJ also makes electronic instruments. Bartsch, who goes by the stage name spaceprodigi, recently constructed a synthesizer as part of ...

The process of making electronic music began more than a century ago with unpredictable and impractical 'instruments' such as the Telharmonium, Theremin, Ondioline and other exotically named ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Step 1: Load an instance of Native Instruments Absynth and create a two-bar MIDI note, in this ...