It’s part of the sound of Chick Corea, Rick Ocasek, Paul Haslinger, Mark Mothersbaugh, and many others Does the world...
Interactive sound shaping in real time You’ve been yearning for an instrument for “conjuring an iridescent palette of resonating harmonics that add colour, texture, and contrast...
A scaled-down but still formidable version of this choir library, recorded in historic Sunset Sound Studios The full Ultimate version is an excellent, unique sampled choir...
Spectrasonics’ flagship synth gets a major upgrade Recently, Spectrasonics shook up the softsynth world with an October surprise: Omnisphere 3, (released October 21, 2025) which represents...
The gold standard of synthesizers gains a long list of features and sounds Spectrasonics’ popular Omnisphere software synth has long been the industry benchmark. It combines...
It integrates directly with Launchkey controllers, or works stand-alone If you have one of Novation’s popular Launchkey MK4 controllers, what’s not to like about a free...
Dream Theater’s pioneer of keyboards and music software uses AI Jordan Rudess is celebrated as one of the most technical – and certainly one of the...
The series is growing, but is it in the right direction? When I reviewed Prime Bass, it was the first entry in Native Instruments’ Session Bassist series....
Samples from Kiev made of the war, turned into a peaceful instrument It’s an interesting instrument, made by Maks Histibe, a musician and sound designer based...
It’s a self-contained version of the free VCV Rack modular softsynth, and we discuss additional options. There are two ways to look at the modular synthesizer...
Is it a “smart music assistant?” Devices that take away some of the hard work of composing music are not exactly a new idea. Sampled loops,...
In which the reviewer gets totally blown away (figuratively, and quasi-literally using a wind controller) Having to pull myself away from playing the Audio Modeling SWAM...
It’s a spectral synth plug-in with additive resynthesis, FM, and spatialization If you’re the kind of person who likes to bring otherworldly sounds into this world,...
The Moogseum is in Asheville, NC, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene The Moogseum’s building had only minor damage from Hurricane Helene, but they lost a...
The Polyvoks rises again – Cherry Audio Atomika Cherry Audio has a habit of coming out with excellent sofsynths at a silly price – that is,...
