Reviews
On a Friday night in January this year, I was looking around for a challenge. After searching through the latest remix competitions, I came…
Dehumaniser is designed to do exactly what the name says – make human voices sound inhuman, and turn them into monster voices for movies, games,…
Every once in a great while, I sit down with a new software synthesizer (well, new to me that is) and I’m just floored…
Bitwig Studio has been out for a good while now, and although there were a number of features missing in the 1.0 release, it’s…
Weighing in at more than 13,000 samples and 5 GB of disk space, Shreddage 2 IBZ ($139, or $119 for owners of Shreddage 2,…
We’re taking a closer look at the Arturia KeyLab 49 Black Edition controller, a high quality mid-range MIDI keyboard aimed at electronic musicians, beat…
There’s been quite an arms race in virtual pianos over the past fifteen years, with some sampled pianos now featuring tens of thousands of…
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…
Xenos Soundworks has a new sound bank to add to their already impressive track record. It features Massive in its most famous and potentially…
For half a century, professional keyboardists have had their instrument of choice attached to synthesizers, organs, electric pianos, and in recent years, software instruments,…
The rise of modern technology and digital audio has allowed for some amazing advancements in audio engineering in terms of workflow and fidelity. Getting…
With the VST software market oversaturated with a good number of perfectly serviceable host applications, I can see how newcomers arriving fresh on the…
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…
Most of us who’ve been around a while will have noticed the massive increase of plugins on the market in the last five years. It…
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…
Now that Image-Line’s FL Studio 12.1 has officially gone live as a public beta version with multi-touch support for mobile devices, a bevy of…
Xfer Records shows us their version of the “dream synthesizer” concept with Serum, a powerful wavetable synthesizer with a clear goal to become one…
As a dyed-in-the-wool atmosphile, I’ve had a long love affair with reverb and delay-based effects. I usually gravitate towards algorithmic reverbs since ambient soundscapes…
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…
It’s been roughly two years since Waldorf first released their advanced wavetable synthesizer Nave for Apple IOS optimized for iPad, but now that it’s…
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…
After falling head-over-heels in love with D16 Group’s incredible Sigmund delay, I thought I would jump at the opportunity to curl up with another…
After reviewing three of the most powerful synthesizers on the planet within the last six weeks, I thought I would let my hair down…
There was a time when hybrid synths were little more than a laughing matter, but within the last decade, the hybrid has become more…