It does virtual analog, granular synthesis, wavetable synthesis, sample playback, and FM. We’re truly living in a Golden Age of synthesis. Every year more developers step...
Can you have your mandolin without having to tune, play, and record it live? The mandolin is one of the most overlooked strummed instruments. While I’ve...
Free notation (and sounds) on all your computers and computer devices (phones, tablets…) Notion, the popular and solid notation program, became a product of PreSonus in...
Glide from one chord to the next using the pitch wheel In the overcrowded hustle of music software, it’s hard to find anything that’s really new....
Granular Synthesis As You Like It Q: When is a sample not a sample? A: When it’s been chopped apart into tiny grains and reassembled using...
If your music cries out for more raw, wildly animated sounds – check out the Sugar Bytes Cyclop ‘Synth and Software’ Review. Monophonic??? Well, yeah. But...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...