Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider
December 30, 2010 – 10:05 pm | 416 Comments

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator that resides in a tunnel 27km in circumference beneath the earth near Geneva, Switzerland.
The purpose of the LHC is to help us understand some …

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47 awesome synth demos
January 12, 2010 – 11:35 pm | One Comment
47 awesome synth demos

You can find a ton of synth video demos on youtube, but it’s tough to find the good ones buried in all the junk. Luckily, user Jexus has compiled a treasure trove (47 to …

Mind-blowing vintage synth display
January 11, 2010 – 10:11 am | 2 Comments
Mind-blowing vintage synth display

Metunar from Austria created this video of the Synthesizer Meeting in Kufstein Austria that took place in 2009.
This is an incredible display of mostly vintage synthesizers that just makes me dream of being let loose …

Jean-Jaques Perrey on the Ondioline
December 30, 2009 – 10:25 am | One Comment
Jean-Jaques Perrey on the Ondioline

The Ondioline was one of the precursors to the traditional synthesizer – it was a vacuum tube-powered keyboard instrument, invented in 1941.
The neat thing about the Ondioline (and unlike most other keyboard instruments from the …

New synth fridge magnets
December 28, 2009 – 12:28 pm | No Comment
New synth fridge magnets

Our synthesizer fridge magnets have been extremely popular lately, and we’ve added more to what we already offer. We have a brand new, additional line of fridge magnets that are created from photographs of …

10+ awesome gifts for synth geeks
December 4, 2009 – 1:49 am | One Comment
10+ awesome gifts for synth geeks

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 …

Spaceman meets synths
December 3, 2009 – 12:06 pm | One Comment
Spaceman meets synths

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 …

Papercraft Moog modular
December 2, 2009 – 9:19 pm | One Comment
Papercraft Moog modular

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 …

Free DIY Korg MS-20
December 1, 2009 – 12:03 am | One Comment
Free DIY Korg MS-20

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 …

A synthesizer that makes … fonts?
November 21, 2009 – 9:25 am | 2 Comments
A synthesizer that makes … fonts?

Designers Rob Meek and Frank Müller have created a system that is a fusion of two very strange bedfellows, synths and typefaces. Meet the Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer:

The FM Typographic synthesizer consists of a knob-laden …

Wearable, solar-powered synthesizer
November 20, 2009 – 3:11 pm | One Comment
Wearable, solar-powered synthesizer

The Square Band is a portable, wearable, monophonic, solar-powered synthesizer. It’s meant to be worn around the wrist like a bracelet or watch, and has 8 buttons which trigger different notes in different octaves.

It’s …