Despite having followed Switched-On Bach with another successful album of Baroque music, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, as well as an album of proto-­ambient music, Sonic Seasonings, which predated ...

Teenage Engineering’s new synthesizer is powerful, portable, and gorgeous The EP-133 KO II is more than a toy but less than a professional tool — and its creators hope it might get even more ...

But the Smell Synthesizer at MOFAD Lab is less like a Steinway, and more like a Moog modular synth, albeit one with fat, arcade-style buttons and corrugated tubes.

This is the Paradiso Synthesizer, named for its creator, Joe Paradiso – an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, who built and fine-tuned the synth over the course of nearly four decades.

The Votrax Type ‘n Talk was a stand-alone speech synthesizer that plugged into the expansion port of the VIC-20. It was expensive, rare, but a few games supported it.

The Commodore 64 is celebrated to this day for its capable SID sound chip, which provided the soundtrack for some of the best video games of its era. Even today, it’s still in demand as a chi… ...