A culture in which it’s fair to say the community which Hackaday serves is steeped in, is electronic music. Within these pages you’ll find plenty of synthesisers, chiptune players, and other projects ...

Electronic instruments have come a long way since New Order sequenced Blue Monday using binary code. Now it’s all quantised beats, USB-C, and expensive noise-cancelling headphones. And if you’re in ...

Australian musician Gotye's international hit, Somebody That I Used to Know, was one of the biggest songs of 2011. Its incredible success allowed its creator, Wally De Backer, to feed his passion for ...

At the dawn of electronic music, you had to be fabulously wealthy before you could even consider making a record. But now the computer on your desk and even the smartphone in your pocket are capable ...

For musicians who want to create more than one type of sound on a single instrument, the electronic keyboard has been the standard for many decades. Thanks to the MIDI protocol originally developed in ...

For decades, inventors and innovators have tried to create electronic musical instruments that could do many things well. The Fairlight CMI, a sampling and synthesis computer and keyboard released in ...

It doesn't look like the guitars worn by rock gods of old. In fact, it doesn't look much like a traditional instrument at all. But to those who know what they're looking at, this strange collection of ...

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Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom. Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is ...

In his initial Measured Responses column, Keithley Instruments' Paul Franklin discusses myriad factors in the decision whether to upgrade your test bench. In these times of economic uncertainty and ...