Artistic beauty is more than skin deep. But does it even require skin? [Editor’s note: This is a complicated and controversial subject, and we welcome your...
The man bites dog story of a string orchestra emulating synthesizers… Spitfire Audio is as widely known for its superbly detailed orchestral libraries as it is...
The Collective from Focusrite is a creative hub with a mission to provide top quality plugins to its users. Focusrite introduces the latest plugin that completes...
A different way of approaching your digital audio sequencing software and its plug-in processors There’s an interesting feature in the forthcoming CLAP open plug-in format: polyphonic...
We prefer that the species continue, but this developer seems confident that they have the drum library to render all others extinct Snark aside, sample library...
Happy days are here again from Tom Oberheim’s new company We don’t make a habit of announcing that previously announced products are shipping, but Oberheim shipping...
Mark Jenkins with a blast-from-the-past keyboard that looks very much to the future A few months back, just before the new Oberheim synth appeared, we featured a retrospective...
Is it an instant gratification toy or a serious tool to create new ideas? A product that automatically generates chord progressions?! That sounded like the very...
Explosive Afro-percussion meets dub and free jazz with the Nok Cultural Ensemble library. On Tape Percussion, the Nok Cultural Ensemble centre diverse Afro-diasporic percussive traditions expressed...
Netflix used the song in their top-rated show, and 37 years later it’s reached the top of that hill again. 1985: poodle hair, t-shirts under linen...
Applied Acoustics Systems releases the Love Lost sound pack for the Strum GS-2 and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with resident sound designer Niall McCallum. With...
It was just released today (Tom Oberheim’s birthday), and it’s a beauty Okay, this is my new favorite synth (along with all my other favorite ones)....
Robkoo’s revolutionary Wind Synthesizer R1- a finalist in the MIDI Association’s 2022 MIDI Innovation Awards Show. It is true to say that the most distinguishing design...
Check it out: the Synth and Software contributor has a new album and is performing Synth and Software contributor Mark Jenkins has been giving his first post-COVID concerts...