If you like building things, electronic music and want to learn about synthesizers, a modular synthesizer is a perfect option for you. Audio synthesis is the creation of electronic sounds by ...

Amongst the many midlife crises I've stacked up in recent years - most of which have been accelerated by the pandemic - is a growing fascination with the world of synths. It started with one of ...

Many artists have added a modular synthesizer to their musical arsenal, but how do you build the synth that suits your needs and budget? We ask the experts. The world of modular synths can be ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

Empress Effects ZOIA is perhaps one of the most exciting guitar pedals to come out in recent years. It's effectively a self-contained modular synth in a stompbox format. So, it only makes sense then ...

Everyone loves playing music stoned, but the (high) times they are a-changing. No disrespect to Bob Dylan covers strummed on “the quad” or psychedelic arsenals of guitar pedals, but these are ...

The world of modular synths can be intimidating to the beginner. In fact, even seasoned musicians have been known to blanche when faced with the prospect of a setup that can basically do anything, ...

South African [Afrorack] claims to have built the first home-built modular synthesiser in Africa. Whilst we can’t be sure of this (and to be frank, it doesn’t actually matter) what we can be sure of ...