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 ...

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

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

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 — ...

Starship’s We Built This City topped ’80s charts but became one of rock’s most polarizing songs, sparking decades of debate ...

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 ...

Soft Cell, the synth-pop duo made of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball, had a huge anniversary on Sept. 5, ...

Dave Smith, a pioneer of the synthesizer, revolutionized pop music in the 1980s. David Bowie and Madonna are among the legions who used his... Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the ...

Stephen Luscombe, the English multi-instrumentalist best known as the founding keyboardist for 1980s synth-pop band ...

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 ...