Waverazor's voice and character is impressively varied thanks to its clever oscillators and detailed underlying architecture, ...

Sure, it isn’t going to win any awards for sound quality, and without optoisolators it doesn’t really fit the MIDI spec. But it works, and remember that MIDI synthesizers used to be big ...

The term is now generally applied to digital sound synthesizers as well as their analog antecedents. Such equipment became popular in the early 1960s, the major types of which were those created by ...

Where soft synths really start to come into their own is not so much by what each part of the synth does, but how they can interact with one another. LFOs, or low-frequency oscillators, can ...

So if you want to get designing sounds with any synth, you’ll need to understand the basics of how the audio signal in a typical synth works, so let’s take a quick (and we mean quick!) ...

whether through a classic sound card or through a parallel port. The related YM2612 from the Sega Genesis also makes a fine synthesizer.

The ambient synthesizer received the firmware update 1.5 on Friday. The update process has been simplified and there are new ...

Yea Big’s Neuroplasticity Concert Series, which returns Feb. 22-23, will follow the above show with more creative synthesizer sounds and more at the Illinois Art Station in Normal. This series ...