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...
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...
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...
I didn’t set out to build my own MIDI sample player, but SparkFun made it so easy I couldn’t resist. The SparkFun Tsunami is a 3...
Does EZbass deliver on the promise of a virtual bass player? Toontrack EZbass aims to put a virtual bass player in your DAW, continuing to round...
The E520 is a very different take on Eurorack modular effects processors. Unlike the Synthesis Technology E520, most Eurorack effects modules are based on either of...
PSP’s new channel-strip plug-in not only does it all, it does it well. I’ve been a fan of PSP plug-ins for quite a while now. Years...
Whether it’s a rush job or you can take your time scoring an action film, you can’t go wrong with Pandora. Since 2001, the Netherlands-based ProjectSAM...
What are the most exciting new features in the latest Logic Pro X update? Version 10.5 is probably the most significant update since the introduction of...
Pick and strum your way through a history of guitar synthesizers, all in one box. Roland’s and Boss’s entries into the world of guitar synthesis have...
Who wouldn’t want Pink Floyd’s backup vocalists at their fingertips? The tenor of many reviews of EastWest’s Hollywood Backup Singers (HBS) vocal sample player/library is that...
If you’re a synthesist, the Kyra could be a DSP farm for your DAW. One remarkably exciting new synthesizer that isn’t getting enough attention (yet) is...
