Design and build a complex, functioning modular synthesizer without leaving the confines of your computer. Voltage Modular 2 (VM2) is an updated version of Cherry Audio’s...
Create your own Frankenstein’s monster of a waveform by splicing together multiple waves. Splicing together multiple waveshapes to create a new composite wave is an increasingly...
If you ever use sampled drums and percussion, you won’t want to miss Drumatic Creator. Media composers who write big, dramatic percussion cues have no shortage...
If you already have a DAW, do you also need a dedicated plug-in host for live performance? The answer should be obvious as soon as you...
A major upgrade to this popular DAW is the most impressive yet. In 2006 Matthias Juwan and Wolfgang Kundrus began work in cooperation with PreSonus on...
Looking for something that will make your sampled string tracks sound more realistic than ever? If you’re in the market for a symphonic sample library that...
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...
