Music Stories
Celebrate Blade Runner with these videos on Vangelis and his sounds
1982’sBlade Runner film one of the reasons a lot of us fell in love with synths. So, with the sequel out, let’s look back on that music.
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Is Yamaha Finally Joining the Retro Synth Party?
Well, you saw this one coming – if probably a lot earlier. With the dance music market growing and synth fever spreading, Japanese giant Yamaha seems to have some new keyboard up its sleeves. In a teaser video today, the first of a series, Yamaha promises something called “reface.” Updated: there’s more. New Yamaha Synths […]
Peter Kirn - June 22, 2015
Music tech Stories
Antiques Roadshow? Yamaha to Celebrate Its Synth Legacy with Vintage Gear
Hey – don’t forget Yamaha. For all the buzz about Roland and KORG (and American makers like Moog), the titan Japanese maker surely deserves its own enormous claim to synthesizer history. This is the company that made one the most influential polyphonic synths of all time (the CS-80), and introduced the world to FM synthesis […]
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