Oli Larkin is responsible for VirtualCZ, a plugin emulation of Casio's classic CZ hardware synths from the '80s. Who better, then, to explain the science behind the phase distortion synthesis methods ...

Until the early '80s, synthesizers were anything but cheap, and most of them were monotimbral, meaning that they could only play a single patch at a time. As difficult as it is to believe, cranky old ...

Casio has launched a new iOS application that reproduces its popular CZ series synthesizer on the iPad. The CZ App for iPad allows up to four separate parts to be played using the original phase ...

For the last 15 years or so, software synths have slowly yet surely replaced those beatboxes, drum machines, and true synthesizers. It’s a loss for old hardware aficionados, but at least everyone with ...