First Patch

Essential guidance to get started making music in five minutes or less

First Patch Everything you need to get started making music on electronic instruments in five minutes or lessKorg – Hiroaki Nishijima & Tatsuya Takahashi The old and new generation of the vital synth company tell us a fascinating storySpeaking in Synth: A Brief Guide to Synthesizer TerminologyAll About the 303 Read a collection of stories where Roland’s iconic TB-303 Bass Line plays a key roleRoland By The NumbersMinimoog: The First Truly Portable SynthesizerThe Drum Machine That Defined TechnoDavid Van Koevering and the Island of Electronicus How a traveling salesman took the psychedelic experience across America selling Moog synthesizersHow Mort Garson Helped Make the Moog Sound a StandardStudio Science: ARP 2600Vintage Sequential Circuits Ads Some of the best from Dave Smith’s pioneering synth companySusan Rogers Prince’s one-time engineer on the intricacies of listening and the habits of a musical giantJam & Lewis The Minneapolis production duo on the secrets to making hit records and staying relevantWhite Noise In the late ’60s, David Vorhaus created one of the most experimental albums of the tumultuous decadeThe Birth of Mantronix A pioneer of ’80s electronic funk breaks his story downWearing A Really Different Fur How Patrick Gleeson introduced the synthesizer to Herbie Hancock and changed jazz in the processTom Oberheim and Robert Henke: A ConversationBob Moog The late, legendary synth designer goes deep inside the circuits