Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

Partly thanks to the pandemic resulting in many more of us having more spare time on our hands than usual, there have never been more people interested in taking up learning the keyboard. This has in ...

You are no doubt familiar with the Moog synthesizer, the 1960s instrument that came to represent electronic music for most people, and the Theremin, which gave us spooky electronic sounds since the ...

Electronic instruments have come a long way since New Order sequenced Blue Monday using binary code. Now it’s all quantised beats, USB-C, and expensive noise-cancelling headphones. And if you’re in ...

The term 'best electronic keyboard' is so broad it can cover anything from professional workstations and arranger keyboards to consumer home and education models. Consequently, this buyer’s guide ...

The Loog Piano may be a fun, kid-size instrument, but that doesn’t mean it should look or sound like one. Now, Loog is adding a brand-new category to its collection: a $299 portable instrument that ...

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For those who experienced any part of the 1960s, even if it’s just experiencing the music from that era here in the future, the sound of the Mellotron is immediately recognizable. The Moody Blues were ...

Instruments, by and large, are rigid, inflexible things—consistent in form but infinitely variable in the music that they can produce. But what if instruments were malleable? What if you could make ...

Why does the music in Blade Runner resonate so deeply? Because Vangelis, the mad genius Greek who wrote and performed the score, relied primarily on one instrument: the Yamaha CS-80. The thing that ...