"Where did all the knobs and sliders go?" It's no wonder that Yamaha's DX7 (and little brother DX9) caused such an upset when they were released in 1983. Gone were all the familiar controls, being ...

Frequency Modulation (or FM) synthesis is a simple and powerful method for creating and controlling complex spectra, introduced by John Chowning of Stanford University around 1973. In its simplest ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. First released in 2017, the original Digitone was a multitimbral synthesizer that made use of a ...

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If you're looking to learn the fundamentals of synthesis, analogue is the best place to start. These machines form the basis for the way that almost every other type of synthesizer operates, so an ...