Synthesizers

If you use software synthesizers, the name U‑he will be familiar to you. Their virtual synths —...

Hyperion is a hugely capable synthesizer with a complex modular heart.

At its core, the Recombination Engine is a triple analogue VCO module based around reissue Curtis CEM 3340 VCO chips. How it combines the three, however, is quite unique...

Maestro is a six‑channel clockable and programmable LFO with an unusual button‑based front panel.

The Filtamp 1006 is a combined 24dB ladder VCF and VCA module with two mixable audio inputs, three modulation inputs, filter resonance and amplifier gain with linear or exponential control.

Arturia’s soft synth gets bigger and better.

DJ, producer and remixer Dave Clarke meets a producer who’s been at the cutting edge of UK techno for more than 25 years.

The JD‑800 is the latest instrument to join the Roland Cloud.

Michelle Moog Koussa, Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation, talks to Rob Puricelli about her father's legacy.

Can GForce capture the character of the legendary Oberheim 8‑Voice in software?

Erica’s Black Sequencer combines ambitious functionality with some of the best knobs money can buy.

In a new three‑part series, DJ, producer and remixer Dave Clarke meets key figures from half a century of electronic music.

Pipa is a wavetable and granular synth with a voice of its own.

Masses of modulation and an innovative sequencer make the Mono much more than just another monosynth.

Director Lisa Rovner and Sound Designer Marta Salogni chat about their feature length documentary Sisters With Transistors, exploring the role of  women as pioneers of electronic music from the 1920s through to the 1980s.

Newfangled Audio’s Generate soft synth embraces chaos...

Does Roland’s software Juno 60 capture the magic of the original?

Black Corporation have taken a single monophonic voice from Deckard’s Dream, made a few tweaks and packaged it into Eurorack format.

This may offend certain modular enthusiasts, but I’m a big believer in restriction aiding creativity. Eurorack designers...

I don’t think I’ve ever been as pleasantly surprised by a module as much as I have with the Data Bender...

Korg’s Nautilus puts much of the functionality of the Kronos into a far more affordable instrument.