These days it’s easy enough to boot up your cracked copy of Ableton Live or Logic and open any number of VST synths, giving you access to decades of technological innovation. It’s a concept that has provided the backbone for countless instruments over the last 100-or-so years, and like it or not, has informed the direction of modern music both in the mainstream and in the underground. The synthesizer is as important, and as ubiquitous, in modern music today as the human voice. The concept is simple enough – a basic circuit generates a tone, and the tone can then be controlled by some sort of input, human or otherwise. How did the synthesizer become such a crucial part of modern music? John Twells charts the evolution of an instrument at the heart of 21st century songwriting, delving into the famous and surprising songs they feature on.
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