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...
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...
Jim Aikin encounters possibly the most powerful synthesizer he’s ever looked at I already have way too many software synthesizers, but when I saw that a...
Jim Aikin ponders why anyone would want an old, obsolete instrument The art and technology of synthesizer design has changed enormously over the past 50 years....
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...
The appearance, functions, and thrills of a Eurorack system are free – as long as you think inside the box, and Jim Aikin does very hard...
Jim Aikin has been using the original version. This one has more of everything that made it good. Yet another great synth from one of the...
Type in the chord progression of a song, choose a musical style from a long list of styles, and the program constructs the music for you....
It’s a physical modeling synth that sounds organic, but you don’t need to wear Birkenstocks with socks to read this in-depth review by Jim Aikin. Also,...
Jim Aikin takes a walkthrough and finds nothing pedantic about patching up your own semi-modular step sequencer, in this exclusive Synth and Software review. UPDATED WITH...
Reason is an indisputably great program. But is the latest upgrade a must-have or just a misnamed decimal point upgrade? Jim Aikin tells all – in...