If it's a motor vehicle that's not a car ... 1983's DX7 was the best-selling synth in the world, and as the decade went on, it was joined by other new technologies for musicians like digital ...

[Rich Bernett]’s Cassettone cassette player synth. The Cassettone works by substituting the trim pot that controls the speed of the tape player’s motor with a handful of potentiometers.

Eurorack has taken over the synthesizer community ... on a piece of paper glued to a stepper motor. The key bit of mechanism for this build is a stepper motor with 96 steps per rotation.

According to reports that surfaced over the weekend, Synclavier Digital is working on a new, retro-styled keyboard version of its Regen desktop synthesizer that looks remarkably similar to the ...