Dave Smith, an electronics pioneer whose creations of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and the Prophet 5 synthesizer revolutionized popular music, died in Detroit. He was 72 and experienced ...

I am both fascinated by and skeptical of strange, nontraditional musical instruments. And it’s this very thing that drew me to Artiphon’s Orba. It’s about as nontraditional as you can get. It’s a tiny ...

Discover the essential music instruments for creating captivating Hip Hop beats. Explore drum machines, synthesizers, and samplers, and learn valuable tips for choosing the right instrument to achieve ...

Tasty Chips Electronics based in Utrecht, Netherlands Has created a new granular synthesiser in the form of the GR-1 which takes the form of a hardware musical instrument that offers users hands-on ...

Synth Library NYC aims to demystify these sometimes complicated, often expensive instruments into the hands of anyone who wants to try one. Synth Library now has 650 members. Once a month, several ...

The iPad should make for a terrible musical instrument. As marvelous as it can be for everyday tasks, the small-ish multitouch screen lacks the tactile feedback you normally get when you play music.

The fear that synthesizers used to strike into the hearts of some musicians has been illustrated once again in a recently unearthed 1983 clip from the BBC Archive. This finds tank-topped futurist Ray ...