Expressive synthesis is literally under your fingertips on keys that don’t actually move. The Keith McMillen K-Board Pro 4 is one of the latest generation of...
Las mujeres han hecho algunas de las contribuciones más significativas a la música electrónica, y aquí rendimos homenaje a tres de ellas. Si le pide a...
Women have made some of the most significant contributions to electronic music, and here we pay homage to three of them. If you ask your average...
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...
The Bob Moog Foundation announces its 2020 Minimoog Raffle, featuring a vintage Minimoog Model D synthesizer signed by legendary keyboardist Herbie Hancock. “The Bob Moog Foundation is...
The newly released Summer Synthesis 1978 is a lost album by David Torn and Drew Schlesinger. Over the past 40 years, esteemed electronic guitarist David Torn has played...
About This Month’s Cover: the 2020 NAMM show Every January in Anaheim, California, the Winter NAMM Show gives music technology journalists like yours truly to catch...
We have some of the most experienced music technology journalists in the world. Care to join us? To find out who makes Synth and Software what it is,...
One of the most anticipated events of the NAMM Show every year is the TEC Awards ceremony. The Technical Excellence and Creativity (TEC) Awards are the...
It’s the fifth year in a row for the international conference celebrating the Haken Continuum. ContinuuCon 2020, the fifth annual international Haken Continuum Conference, will take...
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...