Arturia’s AstroLab 37 stage keyboard crams 44 synths into a portable and affordable package for performing musicians that costs $699.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Are you frustrated with the sheer weight of your hardware synthesizer? Of course not! But ...

Superbooth 2025: Polyend Synth was released in late 2024 and immediately became one of our favourite new releases of last year. In comparison to other Polyend grooveboxes like Tracker and Play, which ...

There’s just something about an analog synthesizer. You’d think that for electronic music, digital sampling would have totally taken over by now, but that’s really not true. The ...

Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators offer tiny battery-powered synths and a range of sounds across a collection of six devices that cost $59 each. Czech synthesizer company Bastl Instruments has a ...

Harness the sheer power of scanned synthesis with Enzyme CM, a powerful synth instrument for PC and Mac - created exclusively for Computer Music readers by scanned synthesis wizards Humanoid Sound ...

From Apple Macintosh originator Jef Raskin’s love of the Renaissance-era cornetto to virtual reality pioneer Jarod Lanier’s mastery of various Asian wind and string instruments, there is a long ...

Korg has expanded its catalogue of virtual instruments with the release of Collection 6, a newly-updated version of its suite of software recreations of classic Korg synths. Korg launched its Legacy ...

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When Native Instruments first released the virtual synth Massive in 2007, it quickly took the music production world by storm. Producers loved the three oscillator wavetable synth plugin -- with its ...

Don Buchla believed in the humanity of wires. The modular synth pioneer created an instrument like none other, one that relied on intuition, learning and, most importantly, human touch. He died ...

Consider the saxophone player's pandemic dilemma: How to play at home in a Japanese apartment, notorious for paper-thin walls, without making your neighbors want to kill you. In a pre-COVID-19 world, ...