Christmas is coming up – it’s time to spend some money on your synth geek friend or spouse. If you’re anythign like me, you’re always needing to come up with some cool gift ideas …

Tim Prebble has taken these wonderful pictures of a little toy spaceman adventuring in the land of synthesizers. It’s a great idea, and the photography is just fantastic:

There’s just something about this that I …

Eric Archer, one of my favorite DIY-ers, has created a completely standalone techno generator. Housed is a box the size “of a medium pizza”, the Big Box of Techno includes two synths, a drum …

Moog made the Moog modulars between the years 1967 and 1981. Each modular system was ultimately a custom job, however there were many stock design models of the Moog modular synthesizer.
When most people …

Peter Edwards is an artists and master circuit bender and has been involved in “creative electronics” for almost ten years. He’s created custom works for all sorts of people, including Mike Patton, Danny …

Most people pronouce the synthmaker’s name Moog as “Mooog”. Those in the know pronouce it “Mogue”, like “vogue”. It seems as though there is another pronunciation that I didn’t know about, “Moch”.
In any …

OK, let’s say you’ve got a gig tonight on the other side of town and you don’t have a car. You need a weighted-key large keyboard controller and need to take it on the …

The Korg MS-20 is an analog two-oscillator monophonic lead and bass synth with hard wired and patchable connections. You can override the hard wired sounds using patch-cords. The MS-20 has been used on countless …

Trent Reznor that Nine Inch Nails played their last ever live show in September, and now it seems as though he might be living up to that claim by selling off the band’s equipment.
Some of …

Jamoflange is a musician and odd-instrument builder who had made pitch-bending projects like the pitch-bending frame drum, and pitch bending floor tom. This new instrument is remarkably cool – it’s an electronic pitch-bending thumb …