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You can make music with test equipment – Hainbach explains
Before modulars became a product, some of the first electronic synthesis experiments made use of test equipment – gear intended to make sound, but not necessarily musically. And now that approach is making a comeback.
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It’s 606 day – remember when Roland made a drum machine like a 303?
808 day, sure. But let’s pause for 606 day – the logical anniversary of the 1982 TR-606, a drum machine squeezed inside a tiny enclosure that looks like a 303 but isn’t. It’s the lesser known runt of the Roland family, and you kind of love it for that alone.
Peter Kirn - June 6, 2019
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Jam like you’re in a Tarkovsky film with this major app update
Virtual ANS from prolific omni-platform developer Alexander Zolotov brings back spectral synthesis like it’s the mid-century USSR. But it also future-proofs that tech – full Android and iOS (plus desktop) support, and now a version that’s polyphonic and MIDI playable.
Strange Moog history: a telephone, a table hockey game, more
Peter Kirn - June 3, 2019
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A Buchla synth repair turned into an LSD trip, and made the evening news
Peter Kirn - May 23, 2019
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Andreas Schneider on the significance of synths, just before Superbooth
Peter Kirn - May 8, 2019
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Years of MySpace music deleted; Internet weeps
Peter Kirn - March 18, 2019
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