This is a nice little demo of a Rhodes Mk1 vs a Nord Electro 3. This kid playing in the video (YT User : MathaeusBech) has some serious chops, hope he keeps up his skills - with a Nord Electro, and an EP with a rep like the Rhodes - ...

First of all, we'd just like to welcome any new readers brought in by BoingBoing and the "Chicken Suit Busker" video. One of the great things about getting a popular blog hit like that to us is that it makes the wider internet community aware of our presence, and we ...

In our time here at Synthtube, we've come across a crazy Polish fellow who on Youtube simply describes himself as "Jexus". To say that he is a collector and maestro of synthesizers would be an understatement. A short peruse of his website indicates that this man has made a lifelong PASSION ...

The Juno-6 is the Roland Synthesizer that was the predecessor to the quintessential Juno - 60. Not much more needs to be said here, other than this was an analog beast that to this day turns heads. Check out this great demo by YT user 'vintagesynthlover'.

In 1992, a company was founded in the UK by the name of Novation Digital Music Systems. Today the company is owned by the Focusrite company, famous for their microphone Pre-Amps, amongst other things. Under the stewardship of the designer of the "WASP" and "OSCar" Synthesizers, Novation went on to make ...

Children of the 80's like us at Synthtube, will fondly remember the 80's Nintendo Peripheral, the "Power Glove" for the Super Nintendo video games console. Denkitribe, a synth-music-making-guru we frequently feature here on Synthtube, has some videos up recently where he has connected one of these Power Gloves to an Arduino ...

You may have heard us raving here before on Synthtube about the new Synth from Dave Smith Instruments (DSI), the "Prophet 08'". Here is a reasonably decent demo of the Synth in question, showing how analog sound-making technology blended with Digital control can end up with a truly awesome sound. Enjoy.

A few days ago at the office, SynthTube chanced upon a co-worker playing with a free version of the marvelous iPhone/iPod Touch application, "LoopTastic" on his iPhone. The App appears to be a hybrid loop sequencer / dj mixer, with block modules representing loops on the bottom X-axis of the screen, ...

Quite frankly, we're amazed we haven't posted on the TB-303 on this site yet. Basically, the 303 is singlehandedly responsible for taking "electronic music" into the next dimension. Produced between 1982 and 1984, Roland never made more than 10,000 of these little beasts. In a classic case of "what the market REALLY ...

Between 1979 and 1984, legendary Synth Manufacturer MOOG produced approximately 11,000 Moog "Prodigy" synthesizers. We'll save you the features list and let you travel over to the Wiki on these beasts at Wikipedia if you're after that, otherwise, we'll let you enjoy this great demo of the device from YT User ...

**UPDATE** This little "toy" is for sale! (price on application). Check out the very weird and wonderful hand made instruments on Critter and Guitari's website, at http://www.critterandguitari.com/home/index.php --- Original Post : Nice little video of a "Zig Zag Synth", played by Vimeo user "Critter and Guitari". Don't know much about this little toy, it looks ...

Vimeo User "RED MARTIN" gives a spectacular demo of a Sequential Circuits Prophet T-8 in combination with a Roland Jupiter-6. The proof, on this one, is in the listening. Lovely stuff.

We've featured a number of posts here on SynthTube, notably from YT user "Denkitribe" that uses the incredible little box from Korg, the Electribe EMX-1. Sometimes described as A "drum machine", but really a self-contained little music "workstation", the Electribe EMX-1 is an extremely popular tool amongst the DJ crowd, or ...

Way back in 1978, a company by the name of Sequential Circuits built an amazing Synthesizer called the Prophet 5.  Designed by a man named Dave Smith, the Prophet 5 was the first of its kind in many ways. It had "Patch memory", and was one of the first Polyphonic ...

Way back in the 1970's, a man by the name of Serge Tcherepnin designed an Analog Modular Synthesizer system, predictably enough named the Serge Modular Music System. All we know is, many reknowned Synth artists over the years, including the likes of Michael Stearns, Steve Roach, and many, many others ...

Ok, so it's not a "Synth". But Ableton Live has brought more to the live synth-music community in the last decade than just about any other software program out there. It's a truly powerful environment empowering the user to bend the best of live performance and pre-sequenced instruments to create amazing and ...

YT User 'worrydream' gives a spectacular demo of the Alesis Micron. This is a rather impressive little synth, that seems to sound incredibly polished right out of the box. Indeed a VERY clean, digital sound, but with quite a bit of soul and colour, for such a minimal looking device. Check it ...

There are a number of sounds that those of us who grew up in the 80's are implicitly familiar with when it comes to music.  Literally specific preset patches on a number of 80's synths can trigger memories of songs, and the moments or periods of our lives associated with ...

Although it's technically not a "Synth", and rather a Sampler with attached control surface, we still think the AKAI MPC range of drum/sampler/sequencer/controler devices rates a mention here on Synthtube. The original device came along at a time when DJ's with less money and "traditional" musical skills were looking for ...

Another great little demo of the famous Juno 106 from YT user, "retrosound". Enjoy this little beastie, set to a rhythm.  This beast has a PHAT sound and was the first MIDI capable Digital-Analog-Hybrid.  We at Synthtube have had the privellige of playing one of these old boxes, the Cadillac ...