The littleBits Synth Kit lets you snap together your own synthesizer, opening up hardware to whole new set of geeks. For music geeks, building a synthesizer has always been a way to experiment with ...

Audio synthesizers can range from vast racks of equipment with modules stitched together by a web of patch cords to a couple of 555s wired together in an Atari punk arrangement. This light-controlled ...

There's little that excites us more than a DIY synth, but slapping an arcade-style joystick onto a fuzzy, glitchy, beeping analog monster practically pushes us over the edge. Synth-master Unearthed ...

This week’s How-To comes from our newest contributor: Logan Williams. This simple guide will show you how to build a digital synthesizer that generates and manipulates square waves. Your synthesizer ...

A few months after creating what was claimed to be the world's smallest MIDI synthesizer, which was smaller than the capsule at the end of a 5-pin DIN cable, a self-confessed MIDI lover and prolific ...

A Carnegie Mellon University student created a system that lets people draw a control panel on a piece of paper, then transforms that drawing into a real panel that controls a simple synthesizer. Like ...

New agentic capabilities reduce time and cost of PCB design to virtually zeroFlux now plans and executes multi-step workflows ...

When synthesizers first became popular in the Late Jurassic 1970s, musicians needed a solid knowledge of how they worked in order to play them, mostly because they looked like this (or worse, this).