polysynths

Peter Kirn December 8, 2023

If you weren't already in love with the free synthesis powerhouse that is Surge XT, here's a big 1.3.0 release...

Peter Kirn September 21, 2023

Groove Synthesis, the instrument maker founded by veterans of Sequential and Oberheim, has taken their massive 24-voice wavetable synth and...

Peter Kirn September 19, 2023

Arturia has a big update for their flagship polysynth, the PolyBrute. V3 adds 7 types of distortion, expanded effects routing...

Peter Kirn June 12, 2023

What would your splurge synth be? It's tough to top the OB-X8 for that, now in desktop form with the...

Peter Kirn February 21, 2023

In 1977, the marriage of motion pictures and telephones somehow birthed Hal Alles' Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer - an experimental...

Peter Kirn January 17, 2023

First, there was the hardware keyboard. Then, MiniFreak owners got the MiniFreak V plug-in as an exclusive software companion. Now,...

Peter Kirn January 5, 2023

It's a keyboard, with elements of a hammer-style action. But it's also gestural, with per-note articulations. And now, it's more...

Peter Kirn November 23, 2022

CS-80 emulations have come and gone, but Cherry Audio dug into the ultra-rare "theatre model" Electone GX-707 organ (GX-1) -...

Francis Preve November 17, 2022

Sequential finishes out 2022 with something new: a deep polysynth with an architecture that draws on the legacy of the...

Peter Kirn October 18, 2022

Arturia is dropping four products in one day: MiniLab 3 keyboard, Augmented GRAND PIANO plug-in, MiniFuse 4 audio interface, and...