Meet the Moog Model B – the prototype that bridged junk-box experimentation and the birth of the Minimoog. In this excerpt from The Minimoog Book, engineer Bill Hemsath refines his “little box” while Sun Ra, cosmic jazz visionary, carries it into interstellar sound history.
In the late ’70s, when modular synths were for the rich or reckless, a Dutch DIY magazine offered a third option: build your own. Mostly forgotten, the Elektor Formant now returns — revived by tinkerers, YouTubers, and Erica Synths — as a living piece of solder-scarred synth history.
From a spare-time experiment to a mythic modular reborn again and again, the Fénix defies extinction. Meet the makers, builders, and players behind each resurrection—and hear how a hobby project rose into one of synthesis history’s most singular cult instruments.
The Jupiter-8 invited musicians into a world of color, clarity, and hands-on discovery – an instrument that turned Roland from an underdog into a true heavyweight, and delivered a workflow so intuitive that even complex patches felt like pure play.