Year: 2016

After 40 Years, You Can Hear Daphne Oram’s Lost Mini-Oramics Synthesizer

In the 1960’s, electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram, above, the first Director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, created a unique synthesizer, the Oramics Machine. The Oramics Machine was a huge device, which moved film strips past a series of photo-electric cells. The Machine translated the graphics drawn on the film into control voltages that modulated the amplitude, timbre, frequency and duration… Read More After 40 Years, You Can Hear Daphne Oram’s Lost Mini-Oramics Synthesizer

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Claude’s Marvelous MIDI Music Machine

Reader Claude Woodward shared this video, demonstrating his Marvelous MIDI Music Machine – a suite of custom light-up acrylic MIDI controllers – all designed to play different roles. Woodward’s instruments aren’t just fantastical – but are designed to be expressive in ways that go beyond most mass-produced MIDI controllers. Here’s what Woodward has to say… Read More Claude’s Marvelous MIDI Music Machine

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Korg Minilogue Giveaway

In case you missed it: Korg is giving away a Minilogue Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer. The Minilogue, introduced by Korg in January of this year, is a $500, fully-programmable four-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer, complete with a 16-step polyphonic note and motion sequencer, arpeggiator, and delay. When Synthtopia reviewed the synth at the time of its introduction,… Read More Korg Minilogue Giveaway

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