The electronics hobby has changed a lot since the advent of the microprocessor. Before that — and with the lack of large-scale integrated circuits — projects in magazines tended to be either super ...

It is hard to imagine how the electronics hobby survived without the Internet. You found like-minded people and projects in magazines. And it is even harder to imagine what projects were in the ...

After showing off a pre-production prototype at NAMM earlier this year, Germany's Waldorf Music has announced the availability of the Kyra virtual analog (VA) synthesizer. Waldorf insists that the ...

Synth wizards Critter & Guitari have launched a successor to the company's first product – the Pocket Piano – in the shape of a portable music box called the 201, which sports six sound engines, a ...

Critter & Guitari's lineup of hackable music computers and video synths are undeniably unique. They do things that practically no other instrument can, plus they're probably the most visually ...

Atom music is a fun new way to explore the atomic world via musical synthesis techniques. Atoms absorb and release energy in the form of photons that we perceive as different colors—think northern ...

In No Man’s Sky’s pre-holiday update, Hello Games surprised players with a new, completely functional synthesizer. The studio calls the machine the ByteBeat Device, and it’s capable of creating new ...

SYNTH WEEK 2026: Synthesizers are weird. They’re musical instruments but they’re also consumer electronics, and as such they aren’t allowed to sit still. You don’t see classical instrument companies ...