If you like building things, electronic music and want to learn about synthesizers, a modular synthesizer is a perfect option for you. Audio synthesis is the creation of electronic sounds by ...

The world of modular synths can be intimidating to the beginner – in fact, even seasoned musicians have been known to blanche when faced with the prospect of a set-up that can basically do anything, ...

Getting into modular synthesizers can require a real investment in time, patience, and not to mention money. Although if you’re interested in messing around with synths and teaching yourself the ...

Let’s go beyond basic oscillators and simple modulation, to explore the more esoteric, adventurous sides of synth sound design When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Zymarium Meadery continues its electronic music-friendly event programming this weekend with a workshop on modular synthesizers. Happening at the RīZōM event space, the workshop will be hosted by ...

Modular synthesizers are, to me, like a palette of different colours. The wider the scope of shades you can create with the basic components you have, the more interesting your system will be to ...

Modular synthesizers, with their profusion of knobs and switches and their seemingly insatiable appetite for patch cables, are wonderful examples of over-complexity — the best kind of complexity, in ...

Now, to be clear, I'm not new to the world of synths. I own a few (including a couple of Volcas) and understand the principles at work. But I'm far more familiar with East Coast, or subtractive ...

The price of entry into the world of modular synthesis has been trending downward for sometime. Moog even recently released the Mavis, a DIY Eurorack-compatible synth for just $350 – a shockingly low ...

This time last year, I walked into a Toronto store called Moog Audio and walked out with a Teenage Engineering OP-1—a curious little portable digital synthesizer that looks, at first glance, like a ...

To understand synthesizers, one needs to understand Bob Moog and the 1950s. Growing up a nerdy teenager in upstate New York, when the hobbyist culture around build-it-yourself electronics was at its ...