History of Synthesizers: 1950 to 1970
June 11, 2013 – 7:42 am | No Comment

Previously we discussed how the synthesizer started to come to be from its earliest days as the 200 ton teleharmonium up until the creation of the trautonium (and mixtur-trautonium) in the 1930s and 40s, but …

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Jordan Rudess Changes The Mobile Synth Landscape With Morphwiz
June 6, 2013 – 12:10 pm | No Comment
Jordan Rudess Changes The Mobile Synth Landscape With Morphwiz

Best known for his contributions to progressive metal band Dream Theater, Jordan Rudess is highly recognized as one of the best keyboard players to ever live. The Juilliard School of Music alum now expanded his …

Massive Synth Collection
August 26, 2010 – 1:09 pm | 2 Comments
Massive Synth Collection

Michel van Osenbruggen is a musician and synth collector from The Netherlands, and he produces music under the name Synth.nl. He had a friend over to take some pictures of his drool-inducing studio, and …

Roland TB-303 documentary
May 13, 2010 – 3:11 pm | One Comment
Roland TB-303 documentary

If you’re interested in the early history of Roland, the TB-303 Bassline synthesizer, or techno music in any way whatsoever, this is for you.
Nate Harrison is an artist and writer who has produced projects and …

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, …

Cats jumping on vintage synthesizers
March 8, 2010 – 4:11 pm | No Comment
Cats jumping on vintage synthesizers

from AutomaticGainsay:
“Just as you requested, here are a couple of cats getting their groove on with a number of exciting vintage analog synthesizers.”
Cats, vintage synths, What more can I say?

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 …

Oberheim 4-voice vintage ad
November 6, 2009 – 1:09 pm | One Comment
Oberheim 4-voice vintage ad

The Oberheim 4 voice was the first proper poly synth, and also the first synthesizer to us a digitally scanned keyboard. Each of it’s voices is a complete Oberheim SEM module, each functioning as …

Roland TB-303 / TR-606 vintage ad
October 23, 2009 – 9:42 am | No Comment
Roland TB-303 / TR-606 vintage ad

This is the first part in a multi-part series on vintage synthesizer advertisements that appear in (usually old) magazines. I used to drool over some of these synthesizers and drum machines, as the closest …

Oblique strategies for electronic music
July 27, 2009 – 10:15 am | 5 Comments
Oblique strategies for electronic music

Creativity and inspiration can often be quite elusive.  Sometimes I can sit down in my studio and great sounds and music simply pour out of me; other times I find myself staring at my computer …