Roland’s 2024 synth range is sprawling and can be a little confusing. Between the Aira and Boutique ranges, Fantoms, Junos, Jupiters and JDs, the iconic instrument brand has a multitude of hardware ...

There's a reason professional keyboards and synths are filled with dials, buttons and levers. When a musician is getting ready for the next song, it's quicker to turn a knob than sift through multiple ...

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.

Talented keyboard players can push their instruments to the limit, but there are fundamental setbacks to the format. You can’t typically do vibrato or crescendos on a piano, for instance. A synth ...

It's no secret that there's a growing interest in synths, drum machines and other electronic music instruments. There are many reasons for that -- most obviously because electronic music is now ...

As technology continues to evolve, synthesizers have become the most versatile instruments in the studio, with all sorts of sounds and effects right at your fingertips. Not only are new synthesizers ...

The Italian synth can do 8-voice through-zero FM, wavefolding and more – and comes equipped with a poly aftertouch keyboard ...

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One of the things that may have held back your sound design aspirations is just how complex soft synths can look. Sometimes this is done deliberately – developers want their creations to look ...

Here’s a hack centered around something a lot of people have sitting around: a PS/2 keyboard. [serdef] turned a Harry Potter-edition PS/2 into a combination synth keyboard and drum machine and has a ...