Synth Anatomy blog celebrates 10 years of news coverage, reviews, deals, and more

Synth Anatomy celebrates its 10th anniversary today and looks back in the coming days and weeks on 10 years of news coverage, reviews, and more.

It’s a very special, emotional day for me. Exactly 10 years ago, on March 12, 2015, the first news article on Synth Anatomy went online. 

Today, I’m celebrating 10 years with you and briefly reflecting on that time. 

Synth Anatomy 10 Years

The website was launched on March 12, 2015, with a different design on the Google Blogger platform. I’m sorry, but there is no image of it because the Wayback Machine doesn’t love Blogspot websites. But that wasn’t the official launch of the Synth Anatomy brand.

It was already on YouTube several months before the website. In July 2014, I published my first sound demo on the channel, showcasing sounds from the IK Multimedia SampleTank 3. It’s a long one, and looking back, I didn’t have an initial goal for the channel back then.

I was always playing around with synths and plugins anyway, and I thought I could record it and put it on YouTube. It was a nice hobby that I could pursue alongside my university studies.

It wasn’t until a few months later that I launched Synth Anatomy as a website. That was never my initial plan because I was complete in my studies and didn’t have plans for my future. I was also busy writing homework, working as an assistant at the university, etc.

A very good long-term friend named Moritz, now active for “Der Mann mit der Maschine,” persuaded me to create a website to share my vast knowledge of synth plugins with others. And also because I always talked to music friends about plugins even though they were early on the DAWless train.

So, without any knowledge of websites, I started a page on Google Blogger and started writing. This was the birth of the Synth Anatomy blog/website. I published my first article about the Vast-Dynamics Vaporizer 1 Synthesizer plugin on March 12, 2015.

Musikmesse & Superbooth

I published article after article. It was still simple back then, as I mostly just copied and pasted information to the blog. On top, I did many iOS app beta testing programs where I got early access to new releases.

Less than two months after the blog was founded, I traveled with friends to Musikmesse (2015) in Frankfurt for the first time. Indeed, Musikmesse was still a thing in 2015 and a yearly highlight. Honestly, I miss it, as it was a pretty fantastic trade fair. This was also the birth of my video news coverage of trade shows, etc.

Thank you to JRR Shop, KV331 Audio, and Alessandro Petrolati (iVCS3…), who financed my leap into the deep end. I’m still grateful to you today for giving a then-nobody channel/website the chance to do this. 

Not to forget, this was also the first time I met many people/personalities in the music tech world with whom I am still in contact or even friends today: Urs Heckmann, Andreas Schneider, Dieter Doepfer, etc. 

This was followed by Superbooth 2016, the first big Synthesizer extravaganza in Berlin, where I met some more great people. 

Synth Anatomy A Job 

Synth Anatomy became increasingly important in my daily life. After completing my studies, I decided to take the next step. I went all in and worked on turning my hobby into a job that would support my daily life.

In the first few years, this wasn’t easy financially, as I tried every possible way to make it profitable. A significant milestone was giving up Blogspot and redesigning Synth Anatomy into a good-looking and structured website.

Since I could focus on this activity fully, I could plan my year accordingly, including several trips to NAMM, Superbooth, and Tokyo for the Tokyo Modular Festival (2017). The latter was a travel highlight I’ll never forget.

In between, I also frequently wrote for other websites like Amazona.de and Bonedo.de to get financial resources to build up Synth Anatomy. I also created video content for the Bonedo Synthesizer channel.

Thanks to these connections, I organized the Synth Reactor YouTube event in 2019 with Henning Pauly (EytschPi42 YouTube channel) and Thomann.

In 2020, I went to NAMM again, but for the last time. Later, the world came to a standstill due to the global pandemic. No trade fairs, no travels, just staying at home. Like other topics (books, LEGO, etc.), this also significantly boosted the music tech industry. 

Instead of traveling, people focused more intensely on their hobbies. Synth Anatomy also grew in these two years due to this increased interest in synthesizers, etc., so much so that it was financially possible to do it around the clock.

Synth Anatomy 2025

It’s 2025, and the Synth Anatomy blog/magazine is now 10 years old. It’s crazy how time has flown. I assure you that after 10 years, my journey isn’t over. I’m just getting started.

I’ll continue to report daily on the latest Synthesizer and music tech news in the usual way in detailed articles without being the copy-paste machine. There are already enough sites doing this. I’ll also continue to update you on the latest deals here or on the sister site Plugin.Deals and regularly writes in-depth reviews.

The same applies to the YouTube channel. Even though the focus has shifted to the website in recent years, I’ll continue to publish content for you as much as possible as a one-man show. 

Thank You

Finally, I have to say thank you/merci to everyone who has made Synth Anatomy what it is today. Without you, it would never have come this far. Many thanks to all the readers who read my articles daily, and an even bigger thank you to everyone who uses my partner links and reads the page with ads. That helps me keep the whole thing running.

A huge thank you also goes to all the developers and companies I’ve worked with over the past 10 years. Whether it was participating in beta testing in the early years, testing devices/versions, or purchasing ads, who helped keep this blog alive. I appreciate your support.

Thanks to all my website and YouTube friends (Bedroom Producer Blog, Sonicstate, Sequencer, Amazona Gearnews, CDM, MIDIfan, and others) with whom I have been able to exchange on a professional and friendly level over the past few years.

In times when YouTube, etc., has become more important to people than websites, I’ve learned that it’s crucial to work with each other rather than against each other. Hence thanks to all the other collaborative blogs. 

And a huge, heartfelt thank Moritz for giving me this idea. I’ll never forget this moment. 

Now it’s time to start another 10 years of Synth Anatomy. I’ll celebrate these 10 years with you all month with giveaways and more. So stay tuned.