There was a time when the party or club DJ would just have to scratch, mix and spin to get the joint jumping and the bodies grooving. More recently, electronic instruments like synthesizers and drum ...

Dave Smith, a pioneer of the synthesizer, revolutionized pop music in the 1980s. David Bowie and Madonna are among the legions who used his... Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the ...

We love classic synthesizers here at Hackaday. So does [gligli], but he didn’t like the processor limitations of the Prophet 600. That’s why he’s given it a new brain in the form of a Teensy++. The ...

Dave Smith, the Sequential founder and synthmaker known as the father of MIDI, has died, Sequential said. He was 72. Artists including Flying Lotus, Hot Chip, and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon paid tribute ...

— “Synthesizers: From Analog to Digital to Software to Analog” presentation to be featured at AES 141st Convention — New York, NY — The AES 141st International Convention in Los Angeles, taking place ...

The sound of pop music in the '80s was shaped by synthesizers – and one of the most impactful people behind that sound was inventor Dave Smith, creator of the Prophet-5 synthesizer and founder of ...

Dave Smith — the American engineer and musician known best as the founder of synthesizer company Sequential — has died. Smith's passing was announced by Sequential yesterday (June 1), though a cause ...