''Electronic Musician'' is a monthly

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published by

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featuring articles on

synthesizers A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

music production A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

and electronic musicians.

History and profile

''Electronic Musician'' began as ''Polyphony'' magazine in 1975, published by

PAiA Electronics PAiA Electronics, Inc. is an American synthesizer kit company that was started by John Simonton in 1967. It sells various musical electronics kits including analog synthesizers, theremins, mixers and various music production units designed by fo ...

as a synthesizer hobbyist magazine. In 1976 it was spun off as a separate company, Polyphony Publishing Company. It was sold to Mix Publications in 1985. Mix Publications was bought by

Act III Communications Act III Communications is a media and entertainment company owned by TV producer Norman Lear. It was started in 1985 following Lear's sale of Embassy Communications to The Coca-Cola Company. In a Wall St. Journal interview in 1988, Lear explained ...

around 1989, which in the 1990s was bought by Primedia. Primedia's business magazines were spun off as Prism Business Media in 2005; Prism merged with

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the next year. NewBay Media bought the magazine in 2011. ''EQ Magazine'' was merged into ''Electronic Musician'' in May 2011.

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acquired NewBay in 2018. The headquarters is in San Bruno, California.

References

External links

Official website
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