Movie and TV composer Michael Whalen reveals his approach to developing sounds for music. I’ve been creating sounds for more than 40 years. I coax them...
To connect with your audience, anything worth playing is worth playing again. To repeat or not to repeat? That’s this month’s question. There are all kinds...
With Eurorack modules like Four Bricks Rook, you don’t have to choose between music that sounds mechanical and music that sounds out of control. The music...
Spitfire Audio sampled the entire BBC Symphony Orchestra to craft a deep and versatile sample library plug-in. Does it live up to expectations? Spitfire Audio has...
In an exclusive interview with Synth and Software, pioneering synth designer Dave Smith discusses the new Sequential Pro 3 monophonic synthesizer and other topics. Sequential’s Pro...
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...
A vintage English monosynth is reborn in Behringer’s Wasp Deluxe. The Wasp Deluxe is the latest in Behringer’s family of classic synthesizer tributes. This growing product...
Arturia’s recent firmware update for the MatrtixBrute opens the door to new sequencing capabilities. The Arturia MatrixBrute is a full-featured analog synth that sounds great. Arturia’s...
In a Eurorack modular system, Falistri is most useful as a pair of flexible modulation sources, though its capabilities go far beyond. Frap Tools calls Falistri...
File away your musical ideas for future use. Think about how you make music. It can be pretty nonstop: playing, listening, producing, and posting finished pieces...
Pearlman put the ARP in ARP synthesizers, and his legacy lives on today. Alan R. Pearlman was the pioneering synthesizer builder and engineer whose initials inspired...
When it comes to good synths in small packages, synth pedals and apps give guitarists and bassists even more choices. In our first installment, we reviewed...
The Evaton Link is one of the best solutions for using a single cable to exchange multiple signals between Eurorack modular systems. Most modular musicians start...
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...
Does Behringer’s tribute edition measure up to one of the great monosynths of the 1980s, the Sequential Circuits Pro-One? Initial skepticism about Behringer’s plans to bring...