How to Make Your Guitar Sound Like a Synth: Pedals That Top Musicians Use

Key Takeaways Modern guitar synth pedals no longer require special pickups and work with standard guitar inputs, making ...
Cult of Mac

Roxsyn app turns your electric guitar into a synthesizer

Roxsyn -- a synth that rocks. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Roxsyn is the “world’s first metamorphic guitar synthesizer” for iPad. The app lets you plug in your guitar and, when you play it, ...
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“A synthesizer that is both easy to use and fun to play whilst maintaining a decent degree of programming depth and flexibility”: PWM Mantis review

PWM is the brainchild of Paul Whittington who, besides the name, bestows the company with a wealth of music-related product design experience. The brand's products so far have very much been a ...
American Songwriter

The First 4 Rock Bands to Use a Moog Synthesizer—Including One You’ll Never Guess

Synthesizers are so ubiquitous in popular music that it’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t around. The first commercial synthesizer did not exist until 1964, when Robert Moog (pronounced MOHG) ...
Hackaday

Building A Granular Sampler Synth

Synthesizing sounds from scratch is all well and good, you just use a bit of maths. However, the latest build from [Daisy] eschews such boring concepts as additive or subtractive synthesis, instead ...