Does your music cry out for more raw, wildly animated sounds? Monophonic??? Well, yeah. But this is not your grandfather’s Minimoog. Cyclop is a mono monster...
The 2023 take on Roland’s classic SH-101 fits in your jacket pocket and only costs $200 The Roland S-1 Tweak Synthesizer is the latest offering from...
A no-brainer for Waves plug-in owners, and a temptation for the rest of us that will introduce anyone of the best free plug-ins out there Waves StudioVerse...
Is this the best $200 you can spend to improve your studio’s sound? Probably! Let’s start at the end of this short review: in terms of...
Mark Jenkins gets his freak on – and his hands on this compact instrument Arturia’s new MiniFreak is more than an expanded version of the French...
Neither thin nor synthy Of all of the orchestral instruments, the trumpet is one of the most challenging instruments to sample properly. Many sample libraries sound...
It’s tiny, it’s all analog (except the 2-track microSD recorder), and it’s a 10×2 line mixer with a headphone amp Is a 10×2 analog line mixer...
Marty Cutler got his hands on the new version of this highly expressive instrument A quick thumbnail refresher course: MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) is a fairly...
Stunning virtual piano instrument: a prized Steinway grand in a new player that uses both sampling and modeling Spoiler: Synthogy Ivory Grand 3 is at least...
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...
