[Ivan Franco] sent us this great synthesizer project that he’s working on. Or maybe it’s more like a synthesizer meta-project: a synthesizer construction set. You see, what Pryth has is a Raspberry Pi ...

If you've always loved the idea of wavetable, but previously baulked at the cost of the hardware, this is one wavetable synthesizer that you could fall in love with. It can do subtractive and ...

The iPad should make for a terrible musical instrument. As marvelous as it can be for everyday tasks, the small-ish multitouch screen lacks the tactile feedback you normally get when you play music.

The early models of the synthesizer were not given a warm welcome. In the 1950s, technological developments improved the quality and usability of synthesizers. But the instrument was frequently met ...

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[lookmumnocomputer] enjoys creating synthesizers, and early last year he created one called The Fart Box. It is an entirely analog synthesizer with which, according to its creator, it is difficult to ...

From Alice Coltrane’s devotional music to modern ambient interpretations of Sufi mysticism, synthesizers are everywhere in spiritual music. But what is it that makes synthesizers so attractive to ...

Japanese researcher Homei Miyashita has developed a lickable device that uses five gel nodules made of dissolved electrolytes to replicate different food tastes without the user having to ingest ...