Find zen-like calm with these perfect miniature synthesizer videos

We all need a way to center, a way to lower our blood pressure and cure insomnia. Forget ASMR or videos of ocean waves or whatever. Just watch these mesmerizing videos of tiny, tiny, tiny accurate models of classic synthesizers.

WIRES from Hainbach, AudioThing turns a Soviet wire recorder into a plugin

It’s terrible recording technology, made into wonderful music tool. This 1970s Soviet machine saw Cold War spy and military action – but now you get to cheat and use it as a plug-in.

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2020

Fundamental puts a rich, vintage tube oscillator studio in a plug-in, from sonicLAB and Hainbach

Make eerie, modulating drones like it’s a disco in the Exclusion Zone. Or delve into the sound tools of Stockhausen. But for anyone who loves finding shifting, nuanced colors in oscillators – Hainbach and Sinan Bökesoy have created something for you.

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2020

The Casio CZ is a huge highlight of Arturia’s V Collection 7

Peter Kirn - June 14, 2019

It’s 606 day – remember when Roland made a drum machine like a 303?

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2019

Post-album techno: 9 years of live sequence data, from Shawn Rudiman

Peter Kirn - May 15, 2019

Mournful drone sounds of a repurposed HP test device

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2019

The 1976 Polymoog film reminds us of when polysynths were new

Peter Kirn - October 9, 2018

A simple, classic channel strip, Mr. Putnam’s mic collection, and more

Peter Kirn - August 15, 2018

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