'80s Week: After Hollywood’s years of experimenting with electronic music, a new invention changed the sound of cinema. When Alfred Hitchcock fired the composer behind “Vertigo” and “Psycho” over ...

Aaron Funk's latest album was created and performed live on a modular synth with no overdubbing and editing; it's one of the more beautiful records from the project in recent memory. Still, in this ...

Few sub-genres of music are as timeless and inventive as the world of synth-pop. One could say that the electronic movement is having a renaissance in 2023—as it seems like every artist working today ...

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 ...

Many people don't like synth-pop. Maybe they are like someone who says they don't care for Brussels sprouts without ever trying them. It is OK to dislike something, but at least have done some ...

Zak Kiernan is a fan of adventure game Mice and Mystics, which inspired the name of his comfy-synth project, Derbyshire. Credit: Photo by Wulfka Zak Kiernan, 37, moved to Chicago in 2012 and has ...

Colorado has a bevy of great synthesizer artists, and not all of them are producing electronic dance music. We searched far and wide to create a list of synth masters, with a particular focus on ...