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Granular synthesis might require a slightly unconventional approach but it’s capable of extremely complex and unique tones. When it comes to sound design, it can...

The JUPITER-4 Software Synthesizer is an "authentic recreation" of the 1978 polyphonic classic 

Roland has announced the JUPITER-4 software synthesiser, an "authentic recreation" of the classic JUPITER-4 – the company's first-ever polyphonic synth and the first to bear...

The new interactive website features step-by-step lessons on how synthesis works...

Ableton have launched a new microsite teaching users how synthesis works, using interactive widgets allowing users to build their own rich-sounding synth while teaching the...

The EMS founder built instruments used by Kraftwerk, Soulwax, David Bowie and more

The synthesiser pioneer Peter Zinovieff has died, aged 88. According to a report in The Guardian, the Russian-British founder of benchmark-setting brand EMS suffered...

A Kickstarter campaign is currently underway to secure funding...

Synthwatch is the world’s first wristwatch synthesiser, answering the question of what Christmas gift to buy the producer in your life who already has everything. ...

Learn how to use a modular synth without spending every penny you have...

A new, downloadable synth simulator allows users to learn how to patch and play a modular synthesiser without having to be in the same room...

Amanda Sewell’s biography of the Grammy award winning synthesist is out in April

The book will be published in April in the US and May in the UK via Oxford University Press. 

Written by musicologist Amanda Sewell, the...

Point Blank Tutorial: Granular Synthesis Made Easy in Logic Pro

For this tutorial, Point Blank’s lecturer Dave Stone shows how you can chop up samples in Logic Pro to recreate the popular Granular Synthesis effect...

Abacusynth

It can be used to "explore the building blocks of audio synthesis", with a free Ableton Live plugin now available 

A university student has designed a new synthesiser for their thesis, inspired by the mathematical abacus. Dubbed Abacusynth, the project is the work of Elias...

Bertolt Meyer has teamed up with KOMA Elektronik for something very special

An electronic musician has adapted a prosthetic arm in order to control a modular synthesiser.

Born without the lower half of his arm, musician...

It also features artist input from Trent Reznor, King Britt and Hans Zimmer

Moog has launched a new book in collaboration with artists Kim Bjørn called Patch & Tweak with Moog, a Moog-specific follow up to his 2018...

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Back in September, Point Blank hosted a fantastic live set from Look Mum No Computer. It was so impressive they asked him to come back and give...

The Analogue Pocket comes with Nanoloop, which is a chiptune sequencer and synthesiser

A new handheld video game system with a built-in sequencer and synthesiser has been launched.

The Analogue Pocket is a modular gaming system which comes...

Surgeon shows off his live techno setup...

Techno don Surgeon recently made the move to a more improvised live setup and admitted that he hasn't DJ'd in the usual sense since.

With...

The tech goliath is aiming at introducing synthesisers into the DJ booth...

Pioneer DJ unveiled their Toraiz AS-1 at NAMM Music Technology Conference in LA last week (Thursday 19th January), which aims at introducing synthesisers to the...