SYNTH WEEK 2024: After the incredible leaps in synthesizer technology that were made in the late '70s, 1980 could be regarded as the year that was the calm before the beautiful storm. There weren’t ...

Softube has quietly been building up quite a roster of classic synth plugins. We’ve always had emulations of Roland’s SH-101 (Model 82) and Juno-106 (Model 84) and the Minimoog (Model 72), and now the ...

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 ...

Even the promo pictures look pretty '80s. Here’s some pretty big news for iOS musicians: AudioKit’s Digital D1 synth is now an Audio Unit. What? That means that, instead of running as a standalone app ...

One of the greatest things about early ’80s cinema was the synth scores so many films had. Movies like The Terminator, and of course anything John Carpenter did, spring to mind. And with shows like ...

This week we create smart playlists with Miximum, let anyone use our internet connections with HotSpotMe, put our MacBook’s Dock in the Touch Bar with Pock, and more. Miximum is an app for creating ...

British synth-pop, was a sub-genre of New Wave music that first emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Queer bands like The Communards, Pet Shop Boys, and Erasure embraced the sound and helped ...

Get ready for a neon-lit afternoon of classic synth-pop and new wave anthems from the Late 70 through the 80s. Whether you lived it the first time round or just love the sound of shimmering synths and ...

Rifter’s soundtrack alone is enough to drop you headlong into a kickass ’80s movie training sequence. Or, if you’re of a certain age, back to the golden age of synth-pop, when bands like Japan, ...