PatchPierre

As most of you know, i bought a fully analog Korg Monotron -analogue ribbon synthesizer- a while ago. I promised you to make a short demo ...

You have probably seen this next video already somewhere on the web, but i thought it was a good idea to post it here too... just in case yo...

Simon Cann is a musician and writer based in London. He is the author of a range of music-related and music business-related books and publ...

Henk Badings is still pretty unknown to a lot of us, but he was a classical-schooled Dutch composer/ engineer who was born in 1907 and pa...

These summer weeks i have been too busy to blog regularly, but i did have time to read and listen. The main topic of this summer's rese...

One of the smallest books in my whole BookTip section, but nevertheless a pretty informative one is this 128-page booklet by Reinhard Sch...

History of House is a very interesting book about the history of House music and the technology behind it. The book is compiled and edite...

The Keyfax Omnibus Edition, written in 1996 by Julian Colbeck , is a pretty interesting 192-page book about synths and synthesizer history....

A great resource for beginners and all other synthesizer-enthusiasts is the OpenCourseWare site from the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo...

Okay... Either you love the sound of the Theremin , or you don't. If you count yourself to the last category, feel free to skip this pos...

Okay... the cover-design of this book isn't outstanding, but the content is in fact very interesting. This book, simply called Th...

This 'Encyclopaedia of all the great analogue synthesizers and keyboards' is written by Peter Forrest and is probably one of the mo...

This CD was published by Doepfer in 1995 to show off their then brand new A-100 modular system. It has 29 tracks and a large, colorful, fo...

Perhaps a bit of an outsider on this blog, but this 104-page book about Simmons Electronic Drums is in fact quite an interesting read. ...

This little Dutch book, written in 1983 (!) is probably one of the best synthesizer-technology-books that I own. The fact that it is writte...

A filter is a device for eliminating selected frequencies from the soundspectrum, and in some cases to emphasize the level of other frequenc...

This 4-CD Boxset with the subtitle  " Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips Research Laboratories 1956 - 1963 " is a colle...

Another interesting read;  The subtitle of this book: “Groundbreaking instruments and pioneering designers of electronic music synthesi...

This CD ( a 2003 enhancedCD re-issue by East Side Digital ) is a nice introduction into analog synthesis by the American synth pioneer Wen...

Analog Synthesizers - Understanding, Performing, Buying - by Mark Jenkins One of the most interesting books about synthesizers and synthesi...