When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Cherry Audio is continuing its emulative tour through synth history with Quadra, a ...

Alan R. Pearlman, the engineer who founded the synthesizer company ARP Instruments and designed its pioneering equipment, died on Jan. 5 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 93. His death was confirmed by ...

His death was confirmed by his daughter, Dina Pearlman. ARP’s analog synthesizers — particularly the compact, portable ARP Odyssey, introduced in 1972 — grew ubiquitous in pop and electronic music. By ...

SYNTH WEEK 2024: The '70s is the decade when this new musical synth technology began to really find its feet. Granted, it was still an incredibly expensive preoccupation, but synthesizer development ...