A few months back, I reviewed the Novation Bass Station II for Keyboard Magazine . As modern analog synths go, the BSII packs a lot of a...

Moog's Sub Phatty (the basis for their new Sub 37 , incidentally) takes their Phatty engine and adds a sub-oscillator and new "...

Dave Smith's Prophet 12 is one of the most buzzworthy keyboards of 2013. It's arguably the deepest analog-hybrid polysynth ever...

Korg's MS-20 Mini has quickly become one of the biggest synths of 2013. Maybe even THE biggest synth of 2013. With its full-figure...

Dave Smith's Mopho X4 made my Beatport News 2012 Top 10 Tech Tools list for good reason. It can sound sweet-as-pie or downright ...

After the success of last month's "What Synth Should I Sample?" poll, I decided to do it again for the 12k milestone on...

To celebrate hitting 10,000 fans on my Facebook page a couple of weeks back, I took a poll to see what synth in my studio you wanted m...

Fans and friends of mine know that my studio consists of a ton of analog gear, arranged in a semi-modular configuration - and I'm...

The Moog Minitaur is one of the most buzzworthy hardware synths of the year. It's an all-analog bass synth, with a knob for ever...

Wubwubwubwubwubwubwub. Urp. I swore I'd never make a straight-up dubstep bass patch, but since that train shows no sign of stoppi...

Alrighty then! I promised I'd release a preset once my new "Official" Facebook page hit 500 friends, so here ya go. Some ...

In the pantheon of vintage analog drum machines, there's an unsung classic that isn't from a big name manufacturer like Roland o...

Ah, the sine wave... For years, I have referred to this wonderful little waveform as "the atom of sound". Without the sine wav...

A few weeks back, I got a request to post a tutorial and/or tips piece on Saturator. Since there's already a lot of coverage for Ableton...

Back in 2009, I released a track on Different Pieces/Armada called Less Cowbell Earlier this month, I rebooted the track with updated drum...

One of this season's trends in EDM tracks is a focus on voice-like synth sounds. Pleasurekraft's 2010 hit " Tarantula " is...

This month's preset is an homage to my favorite new softsynth, NI's RAZOR . Yeah, yeah, I've been going on about RAZOR incessa...

A lot of people have been asking about the top secret programming gig I recently did for Roland. Here's a hint ;)

Taking the occasional break from launch activities , I've been fiddling around with this preset for a couple of weeks and I think it...

So, instead of watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, I spent some time in the studio with Academik artist, badass DJ, and all-around Zen good ...