At SynthFest France 2025, I interviewed Yves Usson (Yusynth), the creator of the Arturia Brute synthesizers MiniBrute I and Microbrute. The French company Arturia began as a software company and published Storm in 2003, their […]
At SynthFest France 2025, vintage synth expert Olivier Grall showcased the RSF Synthesizers: here is a tour with many details on this special company. Every year, SynthFest France hosts a vintage synthesizer corner alongside the […]
Two new Klavis modules: ComPair, a comparator, and the 1U version of its Tweakers Plus utility module, plus a developer talk with the founder. Let’s stay in Belgium. At Superbooth 24, Klavis announced two new […]
A new developer talk with Marcel Belmans, the founder of the 1-man company Modor Music and creator of the NF-1 and DR-2 digital synthesizers. Last June, the Austrian music retailer Klangfarbe organized the Synthopia event […]
At their ID. Entity tour stop, I met composer and keyboard player Michal Lapaj of Riverside for a Synthesizer Live Rig overview. Synthesizers are versatile instruments. The oscillating instrument is often associated with pure electronic […]
At Superbooth 21, I met Urs Heckmann, founder and chief developer of U-he for a long interview about hard-/software developments, Apple M1, and more. The Superbooth is a true synth festival. At no other event […]
ELK Audio Blackboard is a breakout/controller board that provides faders, buttons, jacks… to the AudioOS powered ELK Pi. Hardware /software is a constant theme in the music tech world. Many work in the box with […]
I talked to Richard Nicol, the chief developer of Pittsburgh Modular about the company’s history, new modules & first open-source modules. At NAMM 2020 Pittsburgh Modular showed the Lifeforms Cascading Delay Network, a powerful four-channel […]
Feedback music, making sounds with positive loop gains is the big love of the Swiss experimental musician Simon Grab, who gave me an overview of his work in a long interview. How you make music is […]
Modlab Live is a young modular Synthesizer band from Switzerland that I recently met at the Zurich Modular Fest for an interview and walkthrough of their massive live setup. Who says that modular Eurorack synthesizers […]
Discrete Formants (Vienna) played at the Signal Zirkus 023 in September with his hybrid live setup a lovely mix of ambient & techno. In September it was time again. In Vienna, more precisely, in the […]
Almost every Synthesizer lover knows the well-known videos of trade shows like NAMM or Superbooth: Hello, what’s new, when it comes out and what’s the price? As there are countless such videos on YouTube, I […]
The Signal Zirkus is a music association whose goal is to bring forward the live electronic music scene in Vienna. We (I’m part of the project) are trying to give both inexperienced and experienced musicians […]
The music-making process usually happens with an instrument like a bass, guitar, a piano, Synthesizer etc. That it’s also possible to make music without obvious instruments, shows Matthew Shaw who’s recent releases of two recordings […]
Arturia today released a new patch library for the MatrixBrute analog synthesizer, designed by Yves Usson, the developer of the first MiniBrute. The library is free of charge and features 32 new sounds.
Coralie Ehinger better known as Therminal C showed at Zurich Modular how to use a classic Moog Theremin with an Eurorack Synthesizer system. Last weekend in Switzerland, the Zurich Modular took place for three days, […]
Since Spring 2016, Portland has a Synth Library, an open space where you can learn making music with with electronic instruments. In May, the first Synth Library was opened in Europe with the same goal. […]
On Valentine’s day Steven Wilson and his band stopped in Vienna with his “To The Bone” tour. Adam Holzman has been keyboarder in the band for almost 6 years now. On his last visit, I […]
In the first part of the Jordan Rudess & Keith Wechsler interview, we talked about his first steps in the big keyboard & Synthesizer, sound design and about his current live setup KORG Kronos, …) In […]
During this year’s Dream Theater Europe Tour, I had the chance to meet Jordan Rudess and his keyboard / synth technician Keith Wechsler for a longer interview. It was for me an amazing moment, I […]
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