Manipulating the pitch of synth drums, particularly toms, can throw up all sorts of interesting sounds. Route velocity to pitch or select alternative (non-chromatic) tuning scales. Sometimes you’ll ...

1. Lo-fi space cadets Harmonic 33 use GMedia's excellent M-Tron to help create their retro soundscapes. It's an emulation of that tape-based proto-ROMpler, the Mellotron, as used by The Beatles, ...

Ask any chiptune artist and they’ll tell you: Music just sounds better when it’s piped straight out of the headphone jack of a gaming device and into a cranked PA system. Classic Game Boys may be the ...

Electronic music and contemporary arts nonprofit S1 announced a name change yesterday. Setting aside the minimal, but obscure, name of S1, the organization will hence operate under the more literal ...

The Australian musician Alex Cameron paints quick, affecting character sketches of losers and creeps, bolstered by elementary synth programming and Cameron’s confident, warm baritone. However, now ...