Although basic competency on the piano is key, playing synths demands the adoption of one or two extra techniques you won’t be able to practise on the piano. For now, we’ll address one of the main ...

Today, we're showing you how to create your own drum sounds using white noise. Almost any synth with a noise generator can be used for basic drum design - it helps if your synth houses a multimode ...

We’re not sure exactly what Tulip is, because it’s so many things all at once. It’s a music-making environment that’s programmable in Python, runs on your big computer or on an ESP32-S3 ...

[Love Hultén]’s work often incorporates reactive sound elements, and his Ferrofluid drum synth is no exception. Sadly there are no real build details but have no fear: we’ve gathered pl… ...

Now, anyone can play one of the biggest modular synthesizers in the world, thanks to a new project, code-named “PatchWerk.” With PatchWerk's simple web interface, users around the world can ...

Why it made the cut: This free and open-source VST synth is ridiculously powerful. You don’t have to spend a lot of money for quality synth VSTs. In fact, sometimes you don’t have to spend any ...

MicroKits’ Synth-a-Sette is a tiny synthesizer in a cassette-like form factor. So is Dubreq's Stylosette. Is it a copycat or a coincidence?