Polyend Synth is a $499 polysynth with grid and a ton of synth engines

If what you crave is not so much a groovebox/sequencer as a synthesizer, behold the latest from Polyend. Simply dubbed Synth, it’s a 499 $/€ instrument packed with playable synth engines. And you could see it as the first dedicated synth instrument from the company since their original flagship Medusa.

1977’s Bell Labs Alles synth demo came pre-Crumar, features Laurie Spiegel cameo

In 1977, the marriage of motion pictures and telephones somehow birthed Hal Alles’ Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer – an experimental additive synth that imagined new directions for both music and vocal communication. This 1977 demo has the creator show off that vision, and Laurie Spiegel is on-hand to explore the device compositionally.

Peter Kirn - February 21, 2023

Retronyms bring their Phase84 synth app to Android

Retronyms bring their popular iOS synth app Phase84 to the Android platform to engage whole new set of mobile music users.

Ashley Elsdon - July 12, 2017

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