If you already have a DAW, do you also need a dedicated plug-in host for live performance? The answer should be obvious as soon as you...
A conversation with BSEM founder and ARP 2600 manual author Jim Michmerhuizen If you were to set the Wayback Machine to 1968 while searching for transformational...
A major upgrade to this popular DAW is the most impressive yet. In 2006 Matthias Juwan and Wolfgang Kundrus began work in cooperation with PreSonus on...
Looking for something that will make your sampled string tracks sound more realistic than ever? If you’re in the market for a symphonic sample library that...
Find musical inspiration at the touch of a button (or two). The music software world is rife with one-finger wonders. One Note On command is seemingly...
The NDLR is a small, powerful synth controller and modulation toolkit for generative composition and performance. Sometimes following a random search prompted by YouTube can lead...
When diverse timbres are what you need, these virtual synthesizers are the cream of the crop. Synth and Software has been publishing monthly Top 10 lists since...
Experimental Synth explorer Chris Stack breaks new ground by connecting the Subharmonicon and the Hydrasynth. Wikipedia defines the word vignette as “a short impressionistic scene that focuses on...
You can take it with you…and jam along the way. I’m a big fan of little synths. They’re easy to play anywhere, from picnics to planes, and each...
Behringer’s love affair with classic synths now focuses on the Moog modular system. How does its sequencer shape up? R.A. Moog Co. introduced the 960 Sequential...
Want to create more interesting modular patches? Add more modulation sources such as the DivKid/Instruō øchd and DivKid/SSF RND STEP. Ben “DivKid” Wilson is one of...
UVI delivers a huge library of samples to keep any keyboard player occupied for years to come. For the last two decades, the French company UVI...
Does Melodyne 5 really let you edit audio as easily as you edit MIDI? Although the word auto-tune has become a verb thanks to Antares’s namesake software, the...
A classic Canadian soft synth doubles your pleasure and ramps up the fun. One great advantage of virtual instruments is their tremendous potential for radical revision...
Want to design a radical new instrument and then bring it to life? How do you teach electronic instrument design? According to me (and I’ve been...
