It’s Modular Synth Day on FACT! We’re marking the first birthday of our Make Music section with a celebration of modular synths, the artists that patch with them and they music they make. Find it all ...

But with the recent rise in popularity of Eurorack modular synthesis, and the ongoing trend for affordable analogue instruments, CV-equipped, re-routable synthesizers are very much back in fashion.

It might not be Black Friday until next week, but Erica Synths has chosen today to launch its new Black Sequencer for modular synths. Let’s call it Black Sequencer Friday, then. This offers four ...

Now, to be clear, I'm not new to the world of synths. I own a few (including a couple of Volcas) and understand the principles at work. But I'm far more familiar with East Coast, or subtractive ...

Amongst the many midlife crises I've stacked up in recent years - most of which have been accelerated by the pandemic - is a growing fascination with the world of synths. It started with one of ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

The cosmic commandos at Moog Music are bringing back some classic synthesizers from the golden age of electronic music. These aren't just any keyboards, mind you, but three Cadillacs of bleep-bloop, ...

The world of modular synths can be intimidating to the beginner – in fact, even seasoned musicians have been known to blanche when faced with the prospect of a set-up that can basically do anything, ...

Moog has a deep history with modular synthesis. Bob Moog’s original pioneering synth design was a modular instrument, the patchable elements of which laid the blueprint for over 60 years of hardware ...

On a recent Saturday afternoon, husband and wife team Brad and Tanya Berry prepare for the upcoming grand opening of their Burbank synthesizer emporium, Perfect Circuit Audio. The large showroom, ...