Stunning virtual piano instrument: a prized Steinway grand in a new player that uses both sampling and modeling Spoiler: Synthogy...
Morph from chamber to huge orchestras and add some sampled synth spice Ever wonder what it would sound like to morph seamlessly from a small and...
Larger versions have been praised for their sounds, but does this one go where no synth has gone before (other than a desktop or connected to...
Paperback-sized analog for desktop or Eurorack (in which case it covers lots of ground) The Moog Mavis is a direct descendant of the company’s Mother 32,...
Whether it’s semi-modular goodness or badness, we can say that the road to hell isn’t paved with this synth Malevolent is a semi-modular monophonic analog synth...
The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup Now that choosing the case part of the build is settled, it’s time to assemble my very first Eurorack...
Marty Cutler is so taken by this processed guitar library that he forgets and strums his keyboard The love affair between guitars and synthesis has been...
The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup Sometime around the early 2000s I decided that I was done with hardware. Virtual instruments were all the rage,...
This little marvel only costs… $250?! Call me a late bloomer, but I’ve been resisting the siren song of hardware modular synthesis – until I discovered...
Mark Jenkins reports on some remarkable new books about electronic music While download reading is still popular, there are plenty of reasons to own a real...
An updated take on an old concept: putting the tweeter in the middle of the woofer so the sound source is one point Studio monitors aren’t as sexy as...
Can $600 really buy you a synth that sounds at least as good and can do more than the original Prophet 600?! Mark Jenkins says… Behringer’s...
Softsynths, reverbs, newly imagined processors… plug-ins are no longer inexpensive stand-ins for hardware For years the conventional wisdom was that – with a few notable exceptions...
Marty Cutler gets handsy with Cherry Audio’s amazing new flagship softsynth, a combination of two classic dream machines It cost $60,000, it was impossible to program...
Kays Al-Atrakchi calls it “One of the most exciting new products to come out in recent years.” I can use many adjectives to describe Realitone sample...
