Inspired by some of the most sophisticated analogue combo organs and synth-organs of the 1970s, The Vintage Ultima is a freeware VSTi pack...

Planet Botch’s new Ensembletron VSTi serves only one purpose, but it serves that purpose extremely well, in an eminently user-friendly man...

Cunningly promoted in its 1993 release year as “The Korg Disguise Kit For Other Keyboards” , the 05R/W synthesizer module was unleashed u...

It’s not rocket science, but the Italian house piano sound , which drove so many iconic dance music tracks from the late ’80s and the ’90s, ...

Last Friday evening, whilst riveted to the Kate Bush night on BBC4, I experienced, within a huge and powerful wave of nostalgia, a flashback...

The green one reminded me of a lawnmower for some reason… But let us not any further cheapen this reflection on what is, even with the benef...

So... what were Korg actually selling whilst they were developing the legendary M1? It’s quite a good question actually, which can raise ...

In the history of popular music, there’s never really been anything else like FM. Frequency Modulation , brought to the mass market by Ya...

In 1986, Roland were getting comprehensively hammered in commercial terms by Yamaha and its almost cynically expanded range of FM (frequency...

Yamaha defined digital synthesis with products like the DX7 , so the brand was always going to be a big player in the world of electronic ke...

There can be very few musicians who don’t instantly think of a particular sound, or even a particular track, when someone mentions the Ya...

By the early 1990s, the trend in synthesis was firmly anchored in sample-based tone production. A large collection of real instrument mult...

The original version of the Korg X5, with 32-note polyphony. Introduced in 1994, the Korg X5 synthesizer was basically an update on the ...

The FreeST Mutiny is an old-style Polysynth, designed to create retro, analogue-type sounds. The kind of sounds keyboardists used in the ...