The term is now generally applied to digital sound synthesizers as well as their analog antecedents. Such equipment became popular in the early 1960s, the major types of which were those created by ...

Instead of synths being commodity gear made by large ... because we’ll be making creative noise machines. If you’re the chiptunes type, you’ll probably find something you like here.

The WEA48S55T is a broadband fractional–N frequency synthesizer with integrated phase sync function. It uses a reference input ranging from 25 MHz to 150 MHz, which can be doubled with the use of an ...

One of the things that may have held back your sound design aspirations is just how complex soft synths can look. Sometimes this is done deliberately – developers want their creations to look ...

Forget synth emulation pedals, Gamechanger describes this mechanically powered stompbox as “the sound of a spinning brushed ...

whether through a classic sound card or through a parallel port. The related YM2612 from the Sega Genesis also makes a fine synthesizer.

Music is all about creative expression, after all, so surely there are ways to conceptualise and craft sounds without worrying about frequencies and cutoffs and cross-modulations and all the rest of ...

The UK dance pioneers have today (March 21) shared a powerful new house cut, ‘Peace and Noise’, featuring spoken-word artist Suli Breaks. The track marks their first new music of 2025 and ...