Music Tech Showcase 2021: The DX7 has claimed its rightful and prominent place in synthesizer history for a range of reasons, good and bad. On the one hand it harnessed a novel type of all-digital ...

THE 1980s was, by any measure, an eclectic musical decade. It was a time for kohl-eyed kids to strike poses to electro-pop and for the mullet-haired to raise a clenched fist while listening to glam ...

Yamaha’s v1.3 OS update for its YC series stage keyboards might be full of new features, but it turns out that many of them are inspired by instruments from the company’s past. In response to requests ...

Musicians in the 1980s had a love-hate relationship with Yamaha's DX7 synthesizer. Its digital sound engine was unlike the analog synths that came before it, and created a unique timbre, but the thing ...

The '80s was a transformative period for music, spawning countless artists and sounds that remain vastly influential in the modern age. It was also a golden era for synthesizers, bringing us the birth ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2023: In the late 1960s, whilst studying digital implementations within music and acoustics, Professor John Chowning of Stanford University made what would become a revolutionary discovery ...