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Outside view of Moog Music's HQ in North Carolina

The synth manufacturer had been independent since 2002

Moog Music has announced that it has been acquired by music conglomerate inMusic. It marks the synthesiser maker's departure as an independent company, in a...

Photo of R2D2 standing next to a ARP 26000 FS

The synth was originally used for the voice of Star Wars character R2-D2 

A small batch of full-sized ARP 2600s are being released by Korg to mark 4th May, aka Star Wars Day. The ARP 2600 was the...

Moog

Featuring the "psychedelic" MF-103S 12-Stage Phaser and the "freaky" MF-107S FreqBox

Moog had made its Moogerfooger Effects available as individual plug-ins. The eight plug-ins are a "re-invention" of all seven analogue effects pedals (plus a new...

Minimoog Model D 2022

With a host of modifications 

Moog's iconic Minimoog Model D has entered production again, marking the imminent return of a legendary synthesiser that has helped shape electronic music. Considered by...

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...

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 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...

Carl Craig, Brian Eno and Moritz von Oswald collaborator, and the man who coined the "fourth world" musical aesthetic 

The influential American avant-garde composer Jon Hassell has died, aged 84.

The musical icon's family released a statement on 27th June via Facebook and Twitter...

The polyphonic synth is composed of two parts, 16 voices and 61 keys, featuring the same five-octave keyboard implemented with the predecessor SL MkIII MIDI...

Novation have shared the first look at their eagerly anticipated Summit synthesiser, through a Beats & Bites livestream which can now be viewed on Youtube...