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MTS 2020: These days, synth players are a dime a dozen. Throw a rock into the air and there's every chance it'll come down on an electronic musician. But what makes a synth player great? Beyond that, ...

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Talented keyboard players can push their instruments to the limit, but there are fundamental setbacks to the format. You can’t typically do vibrato or crescendos on a piano, for instance. A synth ...

Following a leak earlier in the week, Moog has now confirmed its most compact keyboard synthesizer so far with the launch of the Subsequent 25 paraphonic analog synth. The Subsequent 25 is based on ...

Compact and well built. Great built-in sounds. Vocal synthesis is more than a gimmick. Built-in speakers make it easy to play anywhere. MIDI support makes playing with a computer easy. More expensive ...

Teenage Engineering announced it was adding modular options to its Pocket Operator line back in January. A month later, the company cited manufacturing issues when it cancelled pre-orders for the 170 ...

The ESI XSynth MIDI keyboard is very flat and small, comparable to the ultrabook device class for laptops, but for desktop keyboards. It also has a synth engine on board, making it ideal as a ...

Synth One just launched. It’s a new synth app for the iPad, but it’s also a big deal. Why? Because it is free, open-source, and built by volunteer musicians and programmers. Stay with me here. Synth ...

Here’s a hack centered around something a lot of people have sitting around: a PS/2 keyboard. [serdef] turned a Harry Potter-edition PS/2 into a combination synth keyboard and drum machine and has a ...

Building an analog synth is a challenge, but with the [Tymkrs] protosynth, it’s easier than ever. It’s a 25-key keyboard attached to a stack of solderless breadboards to make analog synth prototyping ...