BIG drums: Nick Batzdorf explains how to release your inner caveman using parallel compression. Nobody knows why parallel-compressing drums is called the New York drum sound,...
Arturia unleashes MicroFreak V3 firmware update in collaboration with Noise Engineering… Introducing MicroFreak Firmware V3, designed in collaboration with Noise Engineering to push MicroFreak’s sound further...
The YC73 and YC88 – two ready-to-play instruments with piano, electric piano, clavi, strings, brass, etc. with weighted keyboards (73 or wooden 88). Yamaha will be...
UNO Synth Pro and UNO Synth Pro Desktop… IK Multimedia announces UNO Synth Pro and UNO Synth Pro Desktop. Developed in collaboration with Italian boutique synth-maker Soundmachines, both these...
Plugin Alliance launches Lindell Audio 50 Series with Brainworx-licensed TMT to transform DAWs into an analog mixing console like no other. Plugin Alliance announces the availability...
Synth and Software contributor Mark Jenkins provides some exciting page-flipping adventures to keep you off the streets and out of trouble. Under lockdown conditions there’s nothing...
About this Month’s Cover Who doesn’t love a spaceship music studio with a dozen keyboards, head-high racks full of effects units, several computers, at least three computer...
United Plugins announces availability of SounDevice Digital-developed Voxessor voiceover-perfecting plug-in. Voxessor — the latest plug-in dedicated to achieving a perfect voiceover quickly thanks to all voice treatment processes...
Grand Music Boxes, Bolder Sounds’ latest sample library for Kontakt 5.5.2 and higher, is a magical sound. Grand Music Boxes has two 5-octave music boxes (a...
Lumos is a new sound set for Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere 2.6 softsynth, from Plughugger. It’s actually the sound of lamps, presumably being struck or otherwise excited. Lumos...
Synth and Software contributor Mark Jenkins provides valuable advice for musicians working in a very restricted space. Although huge studio setups are still common, increasingly musicians...
Reason is a great program, but v.11 has some fatal flaws for this Synth and Software contributor. Reason and I have had a long, fruitful relationship....
As we welcome 2021, Synth and Software looks back at some of the most popular articles of 2020. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Synth and Software contributor Marty Cutler reviews UVI World Suite 2 (UVI Workstation, Falcon). Creative musicians have explored and borrowed from music and instruments outside of...
Musical instruments creator Polyend announces the Tracker standalone workstation with a firmware update (v1.3.0). Polyend’s Tracker incorporates the quintessential characteristics of a classic software tracker as...