From his 1962 solo debut album, aptly titled "Takin' Off," to six decades later, jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock's career has been defined by looking and moving forward. After playing in trumpeter ...

“I picked up a drum machine in 1983, brought it to a party at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles with 10,000 people dancing and played it,” says Greg Broussard, aka producer and DJ, The Egyptian Lover.

The heart of any arranger keyboard is its style engine and auto-accompaniment system, which transforms simple chord inputs into fully realized musical arrangements. Play a C major chord, and the ...

Yamaha has long dominated the professional keyboard market, and their current flagship lineup showcases two very different approaches to music-making. The Montage M8X represents the pinnacle of ...

Daft Punk are famously secret about, well, most everything they do. Marc Edwards recently took a detailed look at some of the devices that the duo probably used for the vocal effects on their albums.

New more versatile sound engine. Vocoder, hardtune and harmonizer vocal effects. Solid build. Excellent color screen. The MicroKorg 2 is an improvement on the original in almost every way, that much ...

New York grunge revivalists Pretty Sick are shedding their alt-rock skin for a more experimental, electronic sound—a pivot that bandleader Sabrina Fuentes feels she has earned after years of paying ...

The second album released in 1979.The previous work had a somewhat fusion-oriented taste, whereas this album has significantly fewer fusion elements and is, overall, an album that can be called a ...

Richard Tandy, the keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist whose tenure with the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) spanned more than 50 years, has died, according to a statement from Jeff Lynne, the ...

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Casey Benjamin, the talented multi-instrumentalist who worked closely with Robert Glasper and on records by Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, Nas, John Legend, and many more, has died. He was 45.

The MicroKorg 2 has some big britches to fill. The original MicroKorg is one of, if not the best selling synthesizer of all time. It's also probably the longest continuously manufactured synth, having ...