Remix the washing machine drummer and win Ableton Live
August 6, 2010 – 12:05 pm | 107 Comments

OK, I was just so infatuated with the washing machine drums video, that it would be criminal not to remix those drums into a song.
So we’re going to have a remix contest! Ableton has …

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Moog Voyager XL
September 8, 2010 – 3:58 pm | One Comment
Moog Voyager XL

The rumor mill has been abuzz with news of a new monster monosynth – the Moog MiniMoog Voyager XL. The Voyager XL promises to be a semi-modular monosynth (think Korg MS-20 on steroids), and …

Didn’t buy your vintage analogue synths in 1989? Sucker.
August 11, 2010 – 9:50 pm | 5 Comments
Didn’t buy your vintage analogue synths in 1989?  Sucker.

Peter Forrest’s book ‘The a-z of Analog Synths’ contains graphs over time of the average selling price for pretty much every analogue synthesizer ever made.
The graphs are all extremely interesting, but what sticks out like …

Joe Paradisio’s huge modular
July 10, 2010 – 7:37 pm | One Comment
Joe Paradisio’s huge modular

Joseph Paradiso is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he directs the Responsive Environments Group, which explores “how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction and …

Moog Beer!
May 12, 2010 – 2:17 pm | No Comment
Moog Beer!

What if you could put all that wonderful, organic moog-y goodness into bottles and sell it?
Well, the Asheville Brewing Company and the Bob Moog Foundation have teamed up to do just that – …

AHNE Synthporn
April 26, 2010 – 9:42 pm | No Comment
AHNE Synthporn

Analogue Heaven North East (AHNE) 2010 is the annual gathering of analog synth fans from around the Boston area. The idea is that it gives people the ability to see, touch and hear many …

Moog Sonic Six vintage brochure
April 22, 2010 – 7:55 am | No Comment
Moog Sonic Six vintage brochure

The Moog Sonic Six was made by Bob Moog from 1974 to 1979. Moog had acquired Musonics, who made the Sonic V synthesizer, and Moog continued the series with the Sonic Six.
The Sonic …

Moog Auto De-tune
April 1, 2010 – 11:04 am | One Comment
Moog Auto De-tune

I’m not sure about you, but I go crazy every time I hear a new track that uses Auto Tune in an obvious way. It got old the second Cher released her track many …

Moog: When you’re having more than one
March 15, 2010 – 5:00 pm | One Comment
Moog: When you’re having more than one

Edd Kalehoff is a noted keyboard player, having been featured in the Moog documentary, and he was also the keyboardist for several albums by a band called The Roches. He was also the …

Why ADSR?
March 12, 2010 – 5:52 pm | 2 Comments
Why ADSR?

One of the things that characterizes almost every synthesizer is it’s use of envelopes to control things like volume, filters and all sorts of other parameters. It doesn’t matter if it’s digital, analogue, additive, …

Keith Emerson in your studio
February 12, 2010 – 8:32 pm | One Comment
Keith Emerson in your studio

We all know Keith Emerson, the iconic British keyboard player from Emerson, Lake and Palmer (and the Nice). Well, a company called Knucklebonz has a Keith Emerson figurine as part of it’s “rock Iconz” …