Automate your modular system with step sequencers. Playing music with our hands, feet, and breath is a wonderful thing. Sometimes, though, you want to set up...
This misunderstood stompbox adds magic to synth pads. When Boss released its 100th compact effects pedal in 2013, it tried something truly different. Unfortunately, guitarists around...
Could a reverb plug-in really capture the sound of a world-class recording studio? You bet it could. Sunset Sound Studio Reverb (SSSR) is a reverb plug-in...
Now that the Hydrasynth is becoming widely available, let’s find out what makes ASM’s flagship synthesizer unique. In September 2019, a new company called Ashun Sound...
Want to integrate your old-school MIDI instruments with Ableton Live? Here’s how. We’re in the midst of an incredible resurgence of modular, semi-modular, and desktop synths....
Behringer revives another popular classic from the early 1980s, the Roland SH-101. The MS-1 is another recent reproduction of a vintage analog synthesizer design. That puts...
Electromotive: The Story of ARP Instruments examines the rise and fall of a pioneering synthesizer company. Just after New Year’s Day, Synth and Software announced the forthcoming documentary about...
The 4ms SWN is more than a wavetable oscillator module; it’s also a powerful six-voice drone and generative music device. More powerful microcontrollers are having a...
Behringer re-creates another vintage keyboard, this one pairing analog vocal and string ensemble sounds with a vocoder. The VC340 is one of the latest in Behringer’s...
As music evolved, repetitions became patterns, and patterns became musical meters. Meters are time signatures. While tempo is how fast the music goes, meter is how the music goes fast. Together they...
If you don’t have a thorough understanding of what FM synthesis is or how it works, start here. FM synthesis has always had a reputation as...
Power all kinds of music gear with USB. Welcome to the second episode of Bat Utility Belt, where I share quick profiles of my favorite music...
Hybrid scoring secrets and career advice from one of Hollywood’s leading composers, Trevor Morris. Trevor Morris has firmly established himself as one of the industry’s first-call media composers. Having cut his...
Three female electronic composers who made their mark in film scoring This month we pay homage to another trio of women who have made outstanding contributions...
Although the Crave is Behringer’s least expensive all-in-one synth module, it has a personality all its own. Behringer is enjoying great success issuing reproductions of well-known...
