It is true, music is best heard when your eyes are closed or if you can get really really close to the stage performer.
Everyone knows this because visual cues can at time be distracting. …
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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 …
If you love electronic music and just so happen to have an old Nintendo NES system around, this is something that you just have to grab a copy of. Recording artist Animalstyle has released …
Trying to sync up musicians over the net is a fairly fruitless exercise – by the time the music goes in your sound card, into the computer, processed by software, then the reverse happening on …