The piano’s historic role as the No. 1 all-around instrument is being eroded by synthesizers, making digital technology and the computer chip the most powerful combination in the music industry. From ...

Synthesizer-based bands are so pervasive today that it seems as though popsters almost always have been programming machines to make music. But once upon a time, synthesizers were among rock’s most ...

Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

On a recent Friday night, thousands watched as fireworks and lasers filled the sky above Epcot Center. Accompanying the pyrotechnics: a booming, synthesizer version of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.