Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out these days , as well as noteworthy vintage equipment. Last Saturday it was the the the triple neck ...

Each week, Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: If you were a millionaire music geek in the 1980s, just a ...

[Davearneson] built a modern version of a classic synthesizer with his DIY Fairlight CMI. If there were a hall of fame for electronic instruments, the Fairlight CMI would be on it. An early sampling ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's impossible to overstate the enormous impact of sampling on music, and hard to imagine a ...

Replay: Jean-Michelle Jarre takes us through a history lesson, covering the practice of sampling from its infancy to our modern heights. Here's a lovely video that features Jean-Michel Jarre talking ...

If you're a geek and you grew up in the 1980s, then you probably remember the Fairlight CMI. It was that huge white synthesiser with a screen, a qwerty keyboard and a lightpen. It cost $50,000 and ...