Born in Belfast and now based in Glasgow, DJ and producer Hammer (aka Rory Hamilton) spent his formative years establishing ...

It may not have escaped your notice that Howard Jones likes playing synthesizers, and we’re starting to get the impression that he rather likes talking about them, too. After last year’s rather ...

Sam Ash has updated its inventory and is now offering the Sequential Prophet-5 Synthesizer as part of its collection of synths and keyboards. The Prophet-5 is renowned in electronic music history as ...

With its compact yet power packed design, the Sequential Take 5 has gained popularity amongst synthesizer enthusiasts. The Sequential Take 5 represents a masterclass in efficient design, packing ...

Seems that to unleash your creativity you should close your laptop and open your mind. And your wallet too ...

Dave Smith, a pioneer of the synthesizer, revolutionized pop music in the 1980s. David Bowie and Madonna are among the legions who used his... Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the ...

It’s tempting to think that creating a new version of an existing synth must be easy - just copy what’s there, right? However, Behringer wants to make it clear that its ongoing mission to emulate and ...

Last year, shoegaze pioneers Slowdive released everything is alive, their first album in five years. Their peers Drop Nineteens returned with Hard Light, their first LP in thirty years. Today, to join ...

’90s shoegaze pioneers Ride have announced their seventh studio album, Interplay, and it’s out March 29 via Wichita Recordings/PIAS. Since getting back together in 2014, the band have released two ...

Softube has quietly been building up quite a roster of classic synth plugins. We’ve always had emulations of Roland’s SH-101 (Model 82) and Juno-106 (Model 84) and the Minimoog (Model 72), and now the ...

American synthesizer company Sequential Circuits recently announced a brand new compact desktop version of their iconic Prophet-5 synthesizer. The Prophet-5 was the first programmable polyphonic synth ...

WASHIGNTON, D.C. (NPR) — The sound of pop music in the ’80s was shaped by synthesizers – and one of the most impactful people behind that sound was inventor Dave Smith, creator of the Prophet-5 ...