Modulation changes everything when you route control signals from sources to destinations. Original lesson from December 2019 Turning knobs by hand while a synthesizer is producing...
Learning about synthesizers doesn’t have to be a struggle… Those of us who have worked with them for years can breeze past the basics without stopping....
How to shape your sounds with envelope generators. Every synthesizer, even the most primitive, has at least one envelope generator. Most have two or more. If...
Modulation changes everything when you route control signals from sources to destinations. Turning knobs by hand while a synthesizer is producing a tone is a great...
Modular Synthesis for Beginners… Modular Synthesis for Beginners with Jim Aikin When synthesizers first started to take off, back in the ’60s and ’70s, oscillators were...
¿Quieres aprender a programar sintetizadores, pero no sabes por dónde empezar? En su nueva serie de columnas, quien fuera editor de la revista Keyboard te enseña...
Want to learn how to program synthesizers, but you don’t know where to begin? In his new series of columns, a former Keyboard magazine editor teaches you what...
It does virtual analog, granular synthesis, wavetable synthesis, sample playback, and FM. We’re truly living in a Golden Age of synthesis. Every year more developers step...
Glide from one chord to the next using the pitch wheel In the overcrowded hustle of music software, it’s hard to find anything that’s really new....
Granular Synthesis As You Like It Q: When is a sample not a sample? A: When it’s been chopped apart into tiny grains and reassembled using...
If your music cries out for more raw, wildly animated sounds – check out the Sugar Bytes Cyclop ‘Synth and Software’ Review. Monophonic??? Well, yeah. But...
Does your music cry out for more raw, wildly animated sounds? Monophonic??? Well, yeah. But this is not your grandfather’s Minimoog. Cyclop is a mono monster...
Synth and Software contributors sound off on their choices We asked several of our top contributors to write a couple of paragraphs about why they use...
If Jim Aikin says it’s ridiculously cool, it’s a safe bet that it is Making earworm beats just got a whole lot easier. Whether you want...
Synth and Software – the podcast: A discussion about machine learning, neural networks, and AI It was a great discussion with Olivio Sarikas, Jim Aikin, Kays...