Remember those fabulous hits of the ’80s? Roland announces the JX-08 and JD-08 Sound Modules, the latest additions to the award-winning Roland Boutique lineup of compact electronic instruments. The JX-08...
From the demos and screenshots of the interface, it looks like this is the sampled harp library to end all sampled harp libraries VSL’s new harp,...
Content Director Nick Batzdorf looks back at some of the more notable music tech trends and product introductions of the year. (What has he missed?) No...
Waves Retro Fi is the ultimate lofi for the FX chain and Lofi Space is a unique reverb and echo combo plugin. Waves Retro Fi provides everything you need to...
In the days when we recorded music on tape, manufacturers had a simple automatic solution to the problem of latency. Why isn’t there a similar standard...
If you ever want to stir up controversy, just propose ranking the world’s top synthesists. Synth and Software founding editor Geary Yelton and I tried to...
Marty Cutler jumps up and down on DP11, the latest version of MOTU’s DAW, while making ape noises and scratching his chest to see whether it...
Mark Jenkins profiles one of the labels actively keeping the classic electronic music scene alive France has always been a leading region for innovation in electronic...
Reason is an indisputably great program. But is the latest upgrade a must-have or just a misnamed decimal point upgrade? Jim Aikin tells all – in...
Almost all the best synths in life aren’t free. But SURGE is, as Jim Aikin reports (in this article and in the “don’t miss” video and...
We will not use brand names such as Yamaha SPX-90, Roland Dimension D, or Arp String Ensemble Italian developer Overloud is the company whose Breverb plug-in...
Equally bitchin’: it includes a modeled Roland Space Echo tape delay. Cherry Audio describes their latest modeled classic synth thusly: “Mercury-4 is a detailed emulation of...
Yes, the world really does need another sampled piano library – and this one is not at all what you’d expect, as Kays Alatrakchi reports. An...
Plans are becoming clearer for the German instrument manufacturer MFB following the sad death in June of founding engineer Manfred Fricke. Mark Jenkins reports. Now Fricke’s...
Black Rooster Audio makes Motown’s ‘secret sauce’ available to all with OmniTec-67A vintage preamp plug-in. Black Rooster Audio announces the availability of OmniTec-67A — taking its...