Author: Alexandra Sendy
Alexandra Sendy
Sendy has been making music in her bedroom since she was 14 using computers, synthesizers, samplers, and whatever else was at hand. She does not subscribe to any one genre but enjoys energetic, constantly changing rhythms, disorienting synthesizer manipulations, and heroic chiptune melodics.
Rapid is an 8-layer morphing wavetable synthesizer with a bright, modern, vivid core sound and massive (if you’ll pardon the pun) potential as a…
Softube Modular is a modular analog synth emulation, presented in a rack format. You are given a range of modules, a rack to put…
Drum Leveler by Sound Radix is a VST/AU/AAX/RTAS plugin for PC and Mac that is best described as a surgical gain tool, primarily suitable…
Psychic Modulation brought out Phonec a fair while back, a synthesizer designed to create the warped, nostalgic leads, pads and washes that remind us…
Wiggle is a virtual synthesizer developed by newcomers 2nd Sense Audio, based on dynamic waveforms. The main premise is that each of the four oscillators are…
KiloHearts Multipass is a streamlined multi-band effects processing suite with a lightning-quick workflow, intuitive and fun interface, and a selection of “Snap-In” effects, most…
I check the Instruments forum at KVR semi-regularly to look for new synths, and ones like ArcSyn are the reason why. Clicking on the…
Strobe has been a permanent fixture in my VST collection for several years, and the sequel expands on it in a number of ways…
Obscurium is something strange and new to behold. Just look at it. Those rainbow-coloured blobs. The scientific-looking markings… What could possibly be going on…
Togu Audio Line or TAL have some serious property to their name. TAL-NoiseMaker (included as one of the top picks in our free VA synth…
D-16 Group’s Antresol styles itself as an “analog BBD stereo flanger” and is the latest product in their Silverline range, all of which are…
Waldorf’s Largo wavetable synthesizer has been around for quite a while now, but it’s one I missed out on when it was released. Largo…
There’s one thing that immediately jumps out at me with Ultra Analog VA-2 – the GUI seems to be inspired by the Korg Volca…
Dmitry Sches’ Diversion synthesizer made a fairly big splash a while ago, with it’s 2D morphing oscillators, waveform effects inspired by sound design mainstay…
RAMSES stands for Rhythm and Motion Stereo Engine System and is a multi-effect based on XILS-lab’s Masque interface, an alternative to step sequencing or…
Hamburg Audio’s Nuklear is a fairly conventional synthesizer with one difference: Its oscillators do not create looped waveforms at differing frequencies to generate its…