A couple of weeks of study and you’ll be able to do just about anything you could dream of in...
MIDI guitar is reinvented. Are the results worth it? Boss is a guitar-oriented brand of Roland, which has long been a leading force for guitar synthesis....
Not emulations, but rather unique sounds with their own quirks It’s been said: “You can’t have everything; where would you put it?” The folks at UVI...
Two layers of bass sounds, each with two oscillators, at a no-brainer price If you don’t have any other reason to own an iPad, this is...
It’s 2-operator FM – with machine learning to turn your samples into programs Sometimes, though not as often as manufacturers would like you to think, a...
A vintage favorite rises from the grave (and gets a 2020s update) When the ARP Pro Soloist was introduced in 1972, I was playing bass in...
A new release for a high-soaring synth My first reaction, on launching UVI Falcon for the first time, was, “Yikes! This is the Photoshop of synthesizers!”...
Released today: a recreation of the Korg PS-3300, released in 1977, and less than 50 of them were made. And of course, we’re here with the...
Is this the silliest sample library (in a good way) ever? Being a reviewer for Synth and Software occasionally allows me to take a deep dive into some unique products. Soundiron’s...
Polyphonic aftertouch and MIDI 2.0 top our list of new features PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT The S49 and S61 have semi-weighted keys, and the S88 has weighted hammer-action...
It’s like additive synthesis but unique: two sample-based oscillators play up to eight pitches each, based on the harmonic series or tuned to half-steps Earlier this...
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...
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...