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Why Is This Old Couple Raving With Synthesisers?

Gizmodo AU

I love this video. It’s sweet, it’s funny, it has an elderly couple rocking out to synthesisers. And it also makes absolutely no sense at all. Enjoy!


December 2, 2010
Online

NSFW: Play Holiday Tunes With The Lingerie Girls Synthesiser

This is the Cup Size Choir, seven angels in lingerie singing seven notes at your command. They lie down, breathing sensually, waiting for you, ready to play Deck the Halls or whatever Christmas carol you want.


November 4, 2010

This Adorable Pocket Synth Will Make You An 8-Bit Legend

If I had one of these Pocket Piano synthesisers, I would just roam the streets playing it without a care – much like the dudes in this video. It’s quite beautiful (those wooden buttons!), sounds great and is handmade.


September 15, 2010

Relive The ’70s With Moog’s Voyager XL Synthesizer

Keeping the same oak panelling that makes Moog synthesisers so distinctive, the Minimoog Voyager XL celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Minimoog, which bands such as Kraftwerk and Yes pounded their fingers across so electronically.


July 24, 2010

Chipophone 8-Bit Organ A Bleeping, Blooping Labour Of Love

Chiptune fans and anyone nostalgic for a bygone, simpler era in electronic music will be delighted by Swedish tinkerer Linus Åkesson’s ingenius Chipophone. The homemade instrument crams an 8-bit synthesiser into the body of a handsome old electric organ.


June 23, 2010

MorphWiz Turns Your iPad Into A Synthesiser

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Jordan Rudess, of Dream Theater, has created an audio synthesiser app for the iPad that promises to deliver an audio and visual experience. Just watch him play it.


June 9, 2010

Prove To Your Friends That The iPad Is No Toy

Your buddies have been giving you a hard time about your iPad, pontificating on its uselessness at every turn. Whatever. Just show them the Mantaray iTar, the first serious guitar-style synthesiser frame for the iPad. Two words: content creation.


March 25, 2010

Korg Monotron Is So Tiny It Fits In Your Pocket

When you look at the photo of the Korg Monotron analogue synthesiser you think it’s like any other regular synth. Then you watch the video and realise is so tiny it can actually fit in your jeans.


February 24, 2010

Synthesiser Used To Create Doctor Who Theme Tune Being Flogged On eBay

With eight days left in the auction, the actual EMS VCS3 synthesiser used by John Baker at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to create the Doctor Who theme is already up to $US6000. There are some deep-pocketed Whovians out there.


November 10, 2009
Science

Audeo Captures Electrical Signals From The Brain To Create Sound

Your lungs deliver air, vocal cords vibrate, mouth moves, and… nothing. One of those processes failed and you’re left voiceless, speech impaired. Enter Audeo which captures electrical signals intended for the vocal cords and interprets them to produce sound.