A culture in which it’s fair to say the community which Hackaday serves is steeped in, is electronic music. Within these pages you’ll find plenty of synthesisers, chiptune players, and other projects ...

Australian musician Gotye's international hit, Somebody That I Used to Know, was one of the biggest songs of 2011. Its incredible success allowed its creator, Wally De Backer, to feed his passion for ...

You are no doubt familiar with the Moog synthesizer, the 1960s instrument that came to represent electronic music for most people, and the Theremin, which gave us spooky electronic sounds since the ...

It doesn't look like the guitars worn by rock gods of old. In fact, it doesn't look much like a traditional instrument at all. But to those who know what they're looking at, this strange collection of ...

For musicians who want to create more than one type of sound on a single instrument, the electronic keyboard has been the standard for many decades. Thanks to the MIDI protocol originally developed in ...

For decades, inventors and innovators have tried to create electronic musical instruments that could do many things well. The Fairlight CMI, a sampling and synthesis computer and keyboard released in ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

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During our interview, I ask Jim MacArthur a hypothetical question. If he were advising the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences on its current budget struggles, where would he recommend cutting ...