Synth Library Portland is a collectively-run 501(c)(3) arts non-profit providing low-cost access to electronic music gear and education. We build community and empower people to experiment, learn, and create.
Synth Library Portland builds community.
If you’ve come to one of our drop-in sessions, booked Studio Hours with one of our volunteers, attended Modular on the Spot, or expanded your skills in one of our workshops, then you’ve experienced that community first hand. We believe it is more important than ever for Synth Library Portland to exist. We all need a community like the one we’re fostering: one centered around creativity, art, and collaboration.
Groove to the beat
Being an arts non-profit is fun, exciting, and always a little challenging. We are able to overcome whatever challenges may arise through the support of our community. We’re asking you to help keep Synth Library Portland going strong by helping us meet our end-of-year fundraising goals. You’ve already help us achieve this by attending our two benefit concerts: Modbang at The Six on December 20th and Black Friday at Lloyd Center. In addition to featuring live performances, we raffled off tons of great prizes during these benefit concerts.
With your help, in 2025, we’ve completed 1,250 unique gear loans through our popular lending program and hosted 53 educational workshops (an average of more than one per week), along with additional meetups and community events, reaching over 2,700 attendees. In August we held our biggest event to date. Video Sync brought together artists from around the world for three days of installations, artist talks, and performances. We’ve also taken our work out into the community with Modular on the Spot performances in local parks, and synth petting zoo events at local public libraries.
2026 promises to be another exciting year for Synth Library Portland. It will mark ten years since the Synth Library was founded. We’ll begin a new chapter in our journey by moving out of Lloyd Center to a new home (which we’re still searching for). There are challenges that go with this, but we’re excited about the opportunity to continue our work in a larger space where we can grow our membership and program offerings. We need your support to make this transition as smooth as possible. Our next home will enable us to do and create even more in the coming years.
10 years in 2026
Jam with us!
The best way to support Synth Library Portland is to become a member. If you wish to make a one-time donation rather than starting a recurring membership, click here.
Our silent auction ended on December 20th; thanks for bidding!
Synth Library Portland is supported by partnerships with and donations from:
4MS, Ableton, ADDAC System, After Later Audio, AI Synthesis, Analog Cases, Anti-Matter, Barefoot Sound, Bastl, Befaco, Black Corporation, Boredbrain Music, Casper Electronics, Chase Bliss, Ciat-Lonbarde, Control, Control Voltage, EarthQuaker Devices, Erica Synths, Expert Sleepers, Folktek, Hexinverter Électronique, Hosa, IME, Instruo, JHS Pedals, Jonah Senzel, Infinite Machinery, Koma Elektronik, Landscape.fm, Lamond Design, Make Noise, Meng Qi, Moffenzeef Modular, Moog, Mordax, Mosquito Fleet Design, Mutable Instruments, Mystic Circuits, New Systems Instruments, Noise Engineering, Novation, Old Blood Noise Endeavors, Paracosm, Polyend, Red Panda Lab, Schlappi Engineering, SetonixSynth, Sleepy Circuits, SOMA, SparkFun, Sputnik Modular, STG, Syntonie, Touell Skouarn, Tidbit Audio, Toppobrillo, Verbos, Vintage Synth Lab, VintageTEK Museum, Warmstar Electronics, Women in Sound, WMD, XOR Electronics
Other synth education organizations aligned with our mission: Beirut Synthesizer Center, FemSynthLab (Los Angeles), Glasgow Library of Synthesized Sound, Synth Library NYC, Synth Library Prague.
