[Davearneson] built a modern version of a classic synthesizer with his DIY Fairlight CMI. If there were a hall of fame for electronic instruments, the Fairlight CMI would be on it. An early sampling ...

If you're a geek and you grew up in the 1980s, then you probably remember the Fairlight CMI. It was that huge white synthesiser with a screen, a qwerty keyboard and a lightpen. It cost $50,000 and ...

Sunday afternoon at Substantial's loft-like office on Capitol Hill there comes a disorienting cacophony from several synthesizers being tested by various geeks and geekettes. It's a towering babble of ...

Gershon Kingsley, whose work with synthesizers helped popularize the instrument in its early days, has died. He was 97, according to Billboard. Kingsley went on to form the First Moog Quartet in ...