Opening on what would be his 85th birthday, the Moogseum commemorates the inventor who’s been a staple of pop music from the 1960s to today. Visiting Asheville, North Carolina, in December, I walked ...

Indeed, there are many a classic rock song from that time period that take advantage of the versatile yet era-specific instrument. Here below, we wanted to explore three such offerings. These are a ...

After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

The 1980s were an incredibly polarizing time for music fans, thanks in no small part to the vast differences in popular genres, which ranged from heavy metal to synth-pop to hip-hop. Frankly, in the ...

While the present global situation has forced many to resort to all kinds of pastimes and distractions, it has also given rise to a newfound desire to create. From the physical to the digital, people ...

The early models of the synthesizer were not given a warm welcome. In the 1950s, technological developments improved the quality and usability of synthesizers. But the instrument was frequently met ...

One of the greatest things about early ’80s cinema was the synth scores so many films had. Movies like The Terminator, and of course anything John Carpenter did, spring to mind. And with shows like ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro is the now industry-standard song and vocal production software from Tokyo-based Dreamtonics, marking the next evolution in the company’s beloved singing ...

Back in 2018 we brought news of a feature-rich synthesizer for kids of all ages called the Blipblox. With NAMM 2022 just around the corner, Playtime Engineering has added two new fun-packed music ...

The newest addition to Moog Music’s family of semi-modular analog synthesizers is the uniquely named Subharmonicon, and it's a powerful creation tool because it combines some interesting music theory ...