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First Patch → Everything you need to get started making music on electronic instruments in five minutes or less
Korg – Hiroaki Nishijima & Tatsuya Takahashi → The old and new generation of the vital synth company tell us a fascinating story
Speaking in Synth: A Brief Guide to Synthesizer Terminology
All About the 303 → Read a collection of stories where Roland’s iconic TB-303 Bass Line plays a key role
Roland By The Numbers
Minimoog: The First Truly Portable Synthesizer
The Drum Machine That Defined Techno
David Van Koevering and the Island of Electronicus → How a traveling salesman took the psychedelic experience across America selling Moog synthesizers
How Mort Garson Helped Make the Moog Sound a Standard
Studio Science: ARP 2600
Vintage Sequential Circuits Ads → Some of the best from Dave Smith’s pioneering synth company
Susan Rogers → Prince’s one-time engineer on the intricacies of listening and the habits of a musical giant
Jam & Lewis → The Minneapolis production duo on the secrets to making hit records and staying relevant
White Noise → In the late ’60s, David Vorhaus created one of the most experimental albums of the tumultuous decade
The Birth of Mantronix → A pioneer of ’80s electronic funk breaks his story down
Wearing A Really Different Fur → How Patrick Gleeson introduced the synthesizer to Herbie Hancock and changed jazz in the process
Tom Oberheim and Robert Henke: A Conversation
Bob Moog → The late, legendary synth designer goes deep inside the circuits
