When synthesizers first became popular in the Late Jurassic 1970s, musicians needed a solid knowledge of how they worked in order to play them, mostly because they looked like this (or worse, this).

NIST researchers recently demonstrated sine-wave synthesis on three superconducting integrated circuit chips using palladium-gold barrier junctions. This is a major step toward the goal of developing ...

A random noise generator is pretty handy when working with music, and building one using a micro-controller can be pretty trivial. So it’s nice when someone comes along and builds it from a few analog ...

In 1981, an audio engineer named Dave Smith designed a universal interface for connecting synthesizers together. He presented his basic design at the Audio Engineering Society meeting that year, and ...