Have you noticed that a lot of modern film and TV scores have an '80s-inspired sound? We spoke with several composers to find ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The next entry in the Rock Hall’s film series doesn’t star a musician but rather an instrument: a synthesizer known as the Resynator.