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 ...

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 ...

Folks who like to play around with synthesized sound usually like to get their hands dirty building hardware systems too, as evidenced by the many creations of YouTuber Sam Battle. Messing with ...

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 ...

Moog’s new Powered Eurorack Case, available in both 60HP and 104HP formats, invites modular artists to expand their setups and serves as the perfect jumping-off point for anyone interested in ...

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 cosmic commandos at Moog Music are bringing back some classic synthesizers from the golden age of electronic music. These aren't just any keyboards, mind you, but three Cadillacs of bleep-bloop, ...

What if you had a spaceship console installed in a sunlit corner of your living room? And what if, with the twist of a few knobs, you could navigate to the outer reaches of consciousness, all without ...