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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 …
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 …
The video below is a look inside the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and a description of how the Doctor Who theme was created, all without synthesizers.
Delia Derbyshire, Ron Grainer and the rest of the crew at …
Györgi Ligeti was a Hungarian composer who lived from 1923 until 2006 in Germany and Austria, and was considered by many to be one of the most imaginative composers in the last 50 years. …
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 …
Prodigy’s ledgendary track “Smack my Bitch up” from the album “The Fat of the Land” was mostly created with a number of samples. In this video, Jim Pavloff shows you how to recreate the …
Playing guitar on a synthesizer has been a cliche since the 80′s when Jan Hammer ripped it up on the theme to Miami Vice. I rarely hear synth guitar that I like, but this …
You could make a synth or noise box out of just about anything, and Konservendose created a synth out of a cardboard box and discarded gum wrappers for touch pads. Brilliant.
The LEDs are synched …
Before Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor was in a much lesser known band called The Exotic Birds. The Exotic Birds were a typical 80′s synthpop band from Cleveland, Ohio. They started up in 1983, …
Bach is definitely one of the most “covered” composers of all time, and during the time that he lived in Leipzig from 1723 until 1750, he wrote a strange body of work that seemed …
