Heavy modulation of oscillator pitch or filter cutoff can sound a little over-the-top if applied to the entire duration of a sound. Many synths allow a ‘fade in’ to be applied to modulation routings ...

Manipulating the pitch of synth drums, particularly toms, can throw up all sorts of interesting sounds. Route velocity to pitch or select alternative (non-chromatic) tuning scales. Sometimes you’ll ...

Korg has announced the prologue, its new flagship analog synthesizer that comes with full-sized keys and will be available in two models: the 16-voice 61-key prologue-16, and the eight-voice 49-key ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. We all recognise the thumping sound of a synth in our favourite eighties music, but how many of us know ...