Inside this $1,000 pedal are three different types of synths engines that you can control with a guitar, plus simulations of 13 different guitar types, 11 different basses and 31 different amps. Not ...

From Duran Duran to Van Halen to Whitney Houston, '80s acts used the latest electronics to give pop music a futuristic sheen that still coats today's Gaga- and Pitbull-dominated charts. Most Western ...

*On the *Song Exploder podcast, host Hrishikesh Hirway talks to musicians who take apart their songs and, piece by piece, tell the stories of how they were made. Listen below. "Multi-Love" is the ...

In a major new documentary, New Order have opened up about their catalogue and the decision to leave out classic songs from their live show with a 12-piece synthesizer orchestra. The So It Goes… ...

Dave Smith, an engineer who helped create the Prophet-5 synthesizer, which became a staple of 1980s pop music, as well as the MIDI electronic system that allowed drum machines, keyboards, sequencers — ...