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We’ve seen plenty of synths from Love Hultén, the man for whom customising existing hardware is a way of life, but for his latest trick, he’s created a MIDI-equipped guitar. As you’d expect, though, ...

What are the best MIDI keyboards ... keys that come on most synths, and the price can’t be beat. Aspiring instrumentalists and studio vets alike will find a lot to love here: load up a stock ...

“It’s a classic song and I didn’t even realise it had synthesizer on it for decades ... believed to have been inspired by Harrison’s love of Indian music - we get a buzzy bass.

A lot of classic synthesizers rely on analog control voltages to vary parameters; this is a problem for the modern musician who may want to integrate such hardware with a MIDI setup. For just this ...

he gave his GBA synth to a musician friend. The resulting song is a veritable deluge of 8 bit chiptunes. The electronics behind this build are very simple (and can fit inside a MIDI cable), so we ...