Step back into the 1980s, the decade that defined music, culture, and style with a sound that everyone still loves today.

Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

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 — ...

The Prophet ’08 was seen as a rebirth of the Prophet series, in an 8-voice synthesiser, which offered two oscillators per voice, but now in a DCO format. It was deemed as the return of an analogue ...

The 1980s delivered a unique, vibrant, and often extravagant musical landscape that defined an entire generation.

YOU’VE PROBABLY never heard of the Jupiter-8, JX-3P and Juno-106, but if you listened to the radio at any point in the ’80s, you’re familiar with their sound. These analog synthesizers appear on ...

The Canadian synth-pop band behind the iconic hits “The Safety Dance” and “Pop Goes the World,” led by founding member and ...

Three hits songs from the 1980s that don't feature synthesizers, gated reverb, or any other musical fads of the decade.

You see a song title like “1980s Horror Film” and you probably expect icy John Carpenter synthesizers. Wallows don’t care about what you expect. The young LA trio — made up of drummer Cole Preston and ...

Can a certain sound, made by a particular instrument, sum up an entire era? It seems unlikely, yet think about those opening notes of Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F" from "Beverly Hills Cop" or Brad ...

Handy diagnostic LEDs on the side of the tone generator boards. (Credit: Mend it Mark, YouTube) Somehow, an Elka Synthex analog synthesizer made it onto [Mend it Mark]’s repair bench recently. It had ...