Category Archives: synth

ThruYou, an album made entirely from YouTube clips, far greater than the sum of its parts

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Joel Johnson

ThruYou is a seven-track dub and breakbeat album created entirely using samples from user-contributed YouTube videos. It’s the coolest thing you’ll see today, and not just because of the remix nature of it, but how it takes these amateur contributions … Continue reading →

Marc Marc TD Cross Generator synth at least looks good

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Joel Johnson

We salute the reintroduction of pastels in rack-mounted synthesizers, as heralded by the Marc Marc TD Cross Generator. Yours today, starting at $25,000. [via George Cochrane]

The Atari 400 goes analog synth

Posted on January 13, 2009 by John Brownlee

A fantastic analog synthesizer stuffed in the body of an old Atari 400 console. Technabob explains how it works: The Atari Synth is a polyphonic 12-oscillator, 3 modulator square wave synthesizer that’s controlled by arcade-style pushbuttons and potentiometers. Just press … Continue reading →

Casio SK1 synth becomes puppet master hockey organ

Posted on July 9, 2008 by John Brownlee

The organist as puppet master, his music divorced as mere soundtrack to the flashing blades and spurting arterial gouts. Instead, with the help of this repurposed Casio SK 1, he becomes the conductor! The keys control the movement of the … Continue reading →

Synth Porn: Buchla Music Easel

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Joel Johnson

This surreal and haunting video shows Charles Cohen on the “Buchla Music Easel,” an almost ancient synthesizer — 1973! — that uses a modular system to allow musicians to generate and modify musical noises within the same unit. Don Buchla … Continue reading →

Korg DS-10: Emulate the Classic MS-10 Synth on the Nintendo DS

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Joel Johnson

The Korg DS-10 is a cartridge for the Nintendo DS that turns the portable game device into a synthesized MS-10 synthesizer, including two synth engines, a drum machine, and a 16-step sequencer. You can punch in controls with three different … Continue reading →