Because Absolutely Nothing Is Cooler Than This …
CRANK UP THE VOLUME! Because there is simply nothing cooler than three men painted blue whacking on PVC pipes with a killer band in the background and a cute girl…
Suzanne Ciani — Electronic Musician, Composer, Sound Designer
I find it interesting that, while her instruments are newer and she has embraced a workflow that incorporates both Buchla modular synths and computer and iPad apps, her core approach to creation remains as it was nearly 50 years ago.
A Little Synth History – Tom Oberheim
This is post 1 of 13 in the series “Synth Pioneers” This series highlights pioneers in electronic music. It is not intended to be a deep dive, but rather a…
Discovering Electronic Music
Fran Blanche of Frantone posted this fascinating film by Bernard Wilets, which looks at early electronic music, to her YouTube channel, and I just had to share it. The film…
Arturia Gives More Freakiness!
Arturia have announced another new update to the MicroFreak! Version 4 adds a new User Wavetable engine, enhances the sequencer, makes UI improvements, and more! MicroFreak really is the freak…
Some [Over]simplified Science of Sound Synthesis – Ring Modulation
![Some [Over]simplified Science of Sound Synthesis – Ring Modulation](https://i0.wp.com/gerenm.net/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2021-08-15-120300.png?resize=1140%2C641&ssl=1 "Some [Over]simplified Science of Sound Synthesis – Ring Modulation")
Following a recent Discord discussion of Ring Modulation in sound synthesis, I put together a little video demonstration of the something called “ring modulation.” In synthesizers, this is a method…
Korgs I’ve Owned Part 6 — Kronos 2
What’s really impressive is that Kronos family has been the top of Korg’s heap since 2011. Again, rightly so. There’s not really much it can’t do. It is quite literally, a complete music workstation and recording studio in a single box.
NAMM Believe In Music Week — Selected Videos, Announcements, and Livestreams
Updated selected videos from NAMM 2021 Believe In Music Week. There’s no particular order to most of these — just the order that I was able to find and view…