The Macchiato Mini Synth has a similar aesthetic to the recently-revamped Stylophone, but offers audio nerds and sound geeks the chance to get their hands dirty and build their own for under US$40, or ...

A diminutive take on Casio's '80s classic, CZ-1 Mini squeezes the CZ series' phase distortion engine into a $89 mini-synth ...

Behringer's Pro VS Mini synth – based on the 1986 Sequential Circuits Prophet VS – was announced well over a year ago and we've even heard the diminutive desktop module in action. Now we've finally ...

The project shows how the Mini Controller is made to interface with any synthesizer with 1V/octave input. The MFOS Mini Controller utilizes a stylus probe and PCB keyboard contacts that is similar to ...

DIY electronic music makers, warm up your soldering irons: A pair of hardware hacking designers have created a miniature two-button, solar-powered synthesizer with a 3-D printed wrist-strap housing, ...

Korg launched its Nu:Tekt line of DIY kits in 2019 with the NTS-1. It was basically just the programmable digital oscillator from the Prologue and Minilogue XD in a cheap dedicated box. Over the years ...

Electro-Harmonix has relaunched its 1980s cult classic, the Mini-Synthesizer, for iPhone and iPad. The app comes with 22 presets and the ability to store, what EHX promises, "an almost unlimited ...

At the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim recently, Korg unveiled a new oriental version of its famous Wavedrum percussion synthesizer, designed specifically for Middle Eastern music. For Musikmesse 2011 in ...

There are a handful of relatively dirt cheap synths out there like the KORG Monotron, but many of them use ribbon controllers that aren’t very precise. Ribbon controllers basically slide pots that you ...

Although our plans to host a build-your-own drum machine workshop at the Electronic Beats Festival in Leipzig didn’t pan out last November, we were still determined to join forces with DIY audio ...

April 2010 marks the 40 year anniversary of the first live performance of the Mini-Moog synthesizer. Although few realized it at the time, the event was a watershed moment in music history. Previously ...