Eventide is giving away a Buchla-inspired chaos synth for free, and it doesn’t use iLok
Experimental, "chaos"-driven, West Coast synthesis is now delightfully popular. And the creative folks at Newfangled Audio have developed a monosynth...
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arcologies is wonderfully archaic music art for monome norns
What if Conway's Game of Life, a Tamigotchi, a Turing machine, a Game Boy, and a stack of ecology and...
Ableton Live freebies: bring back the color schemes from Live 2
Party like it's 2002. By popular demand, Sonic Bloom has recreated the "vintage" color skins of Ableton Live 2, 18...
Ableton Live freebies: Spectral Attractors creates eerie, beautiful sounds
At some point, you don't want another plate reverb. You want the experimental sounds of a phase vocoder combined with...
Arturia MicroFreak gets a vocoder – as a free update, or a new limited-edition keyboard
Arturia's MicroFreak is about as much sonic exploration as you can get in any single low-cost synth on the market...
Reason Friktion review: an exquisitely playable physical modeling string instrument
From Reason Studios comes a new physical modeling instrument, Friktion, focused on bowed and plucked strings. The twist: it lets...
Grab free modules for Reaktor Blocks from Toybox – now with a powerful Table Block
Toybox is one of the best software modular designers out there, bar none - and easily must-have for the Reaktor...
A freakier Arturia MicroFreak, with this editor
Think of it as an "I feel freaky" button for Arturia's MicroFreak. In addition to useful automation and editing features,...
In deep with the Synthstrom Deluge, the boutique do-everything synth sampler sequencer
A deep-dive, hands-on review of the boutique synth-sampler-sequencer hardware box that does it all. The post In deep with the...
Make orbits of planets and moons into music, with a VCV Rack module and an upcoming synth
In the early days of analog synthesis, you had to just turn knobs really slowly and imagine some planetary bodies...
