Published stories - Synths

The Realistic Concertmate MG-1 is vintage analog synthesizer that was distributed by Radio Shack under their “Realistic” brand name.

The Yamaha CS-50, a vintage synthesizer from 1976, is a scaled down version of the classic Yamaha CS-80 and CS-60 synths.

Sonic Academy has announced the next release in their video tutorial series, Making a Synth in Reaktor.

Welcome to MusicRadar's Synth Week - a celebration of the designers, programmers and players who've taken the synth from the laboratory to the very heart of the music business.

Commercial developers are now releasing music creation apps for mobile game systems, in the form of the KORG DS-10 for Nintendo DS and Rockstar’s Beaterator for PSP.

Synthesizers are amazing instruments. I used to love watching videos of Vangelis, Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson and Jean Michel Jarre play their racks of synths in the 70s and 80s.

Tom Oberheim has reissued the classic SEM monophonic analog synthesizer expander module, and it’s now available via AudioMIDI.

Metasynth has been around since 1999 but has so far remained a bit of a secret to most people.

Here's a taste of the upcoming Korg WAVEDRUM Dynamic Percussion Synthesizer, with percussionist Geoff Brown. The original Korg WAVEDRUM amazed the music world back in 1994.

Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) has a new Mattson Mini Modular synthesizer, named Ichabod, and here’s a little footage of it getting broken in.