We put five of today's most powerful, flexible and versatile synth plugins to the test to find out who comes out on top ...

With Depeche Mode’s 15th studio album, Memento Mori, out now, we’ve decided to look back at the band’s synth history and have a go at recreating some Mode-like beats, riffs and sequences. We’ll not ...

A selection of superb stock synths that you might not have even realised you ...

This is the history of Native Instruments’ massively influential wavetable instrument, from development and release to its ...

Love Hultén's fondness for strange synthesizers has taken a new, more modern-looking turn. The artist has unveiled Synth#boi, a hybrid soft synth and "interactive visualizer" built with help from the ...

We're not the only ones who love the look of analog synthesizers, with their patch cables, oscillators, filters and other old school controls. But when it comes to convenience or even sound quality, ...

A synthesizer is a tool that can electronically reproduce the sound of various instruments, and is used by musicians when playing on the stage, or as software for producing sound in electronic devices ...

It's no secret that there's a growing interest in synths, drum machines and other electronic music instruments. There are many reasons for that -- most obviously because electronic music is now ...