Can a virtual warehouse full of instruments maintain quality along with quantity? Even the free version? SampleTank 4 is a 16-part multitimbral sound/groove workstation for the...
About this Month’s Cover: Michelle Moog-Koussa and the Bob Moog Foundation In 1978, free from the company he founded and enamored with the Blue Ridge Mountains,...
The price of classic synthesizers continues to rise. Which ones are worth their asking price? With few exceptions, almost everyone agrees on which vintage synths they...
The Rock Band 3 keytar is crazy-cheap and amazingly useful. Behold the power of mass production: this two-octave MIDI controller has a keyboard feel that rivals...
If you want the predictability of an LFO with the pattern variations of random modulation, just add chaos. One challenge in music composition is finding the...
Sound designer and EM editor-at-large Francis Preve announces Honoring Florian, a free download from Symplesound. Honoring Florian is a tribute to Kraftwerk’s cofounder Florian Schneider, who passed away last month at...
The heart of many synths is a wavetable oscillator, but what the heck are wavetables? Filling your mix with fresh, exciting sounds is what electronic music...
Catching up with classic and new releases from some of Germany’s finest electronic musicians. Since the earliest availability of electronic instruments, musicians in Germany have always...
Where did “the world’s most dangerous synth” begin, and where is it now? Fifty years ago, Herb Deutsch, Chris Swansen, and a handful of other dedicated...
It’s easy to put words in a virtual singer’s mouth with the Kontakt instrument Realivox Blue. Realivox Blue is a word- and phrase-based vocal sample library...
This pioneering Belgian synthesist has worked with Bowie, Dolby, Deep Forest, and Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider. When he bought an EMS VCS3 in 1970, Daniel Lacksman became...
Arturia OB-Xa V emulates the classic Oberheim OB-Xa polysynth and gives it a few modern twists. French specialists in music gear Arturia just launched OB-Xa V....
Emmy Award-winning composer and Synth and Software contributor Michael Whalen performs on Facebook Live today at 4pm Eastern. Today the nonprofit Bob Moog Foundation continues its...
Participate in a live webinar and learn how Web MIDI is changing online collaboration. Join representatives from Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the W3C today (Saturday, May 16) to discuss Web...
Vocoding and vocal-synthesis effects are a snap with this innovative processing software. Waves OVox is a voice-controlled processor and resynthesis plug-in that also runs as a...