This time last year, I walked into a Toronto store called Moog Audio and walked out with a Teenage Engineering OP-1—a curious little portable digital synthesizer that looks, at first glance, like a ...

Why do producers keep choosing analog drum synths over digital alternatives, even when technology has advanced so dramatically? The answer lies in subtle circuit behaviors that create warmth and punch ...

The word “vintage” has carried drastically different meanings within the world of musical instruments. In the realm of electric and acoustic guitars and amplifiers, “vintage” in recent years has ...

Arturia has made a name for itself with its reasonably-priced and easy-to-use synths and MIDI keyboards, now it's offering its popular Analog Lab VST for a bargain price, as well. Reduced to $99 from ...

Buying hardware synths can be incredibly expensive, but this year’s National Association of Music Merchants show, NAMM, brought loads of affordable announcements from well-known companies. Almost all ...

More than 6,500 presets from all manner of vintage synths and keyboard instruments When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you’re ...

The world of analog synthesizers is a paradise for DIY-types. It doesn’t matter if you can read music: half the fun’s in creating new circuits and twisting knobs just to hear what happens. That’s why ...

There’s just something about an analog synthesizer. You’d think that for electronic music, digital sampling would have totally taken over by now, but that’s really not true. The world of analog synths ...

There's no denying that some synthesizers can be very pricey monsters, but there are quite a few that you can carry around in your pocket – such as Pocket Operators, the Tiny-TS and the minijam studio ...

The relative ease of building the individual components that make up an analog synth make it very tempting to DIY your own. That’s what [Albert Nyström] did and the result is this great looking, and ...

New York electronic-rock duo Phantogram are premiering their new video, exclusively at Paste, for a reimagined version of “Calling All” from their 2016 album Three. The band performed the track live ...