Surge, awesome free soft synth, gets major 1.8 update
This labor-of-love, free and open-source software synth has gotten a whole lot more love - with new filters, features, modulation,...
MacOS
Reason+ is finally subscription music-making software that costs less, not more
Reason+ has a subscription with costs that - depending on your needs - could save enthusiasts money. And the slogan...
Free Update Brings Moog Model 15 To macOS
On Macs running macOS 11 or greater, Model 15 can be used standalone, or as an Audio Unit v3 in...
Moog’s Model 15 modular now runs on macOS Big Sur, iPad, iPhone, and M1 Macs
One Moog modular runs everywhere (nearly) on the current Apple ecosystem, so your patches go gracefully from Big Sur Mac...
Deep in Serum: six sound tricks to explore just by double-clicking, with maestro Francis Preve
For all the many soft synths out there, maturity and depth matter - and few tools offer those quite like...
Pipa is a unique vocal synth plug-in and app that’s supremely fun to play [Hands-on]
Lying somewhere between organic and artificial in its sound, the vocal synth Pipa - available as both an iPad app...
Freebie watch: Diablo Lite is built to make drums punch, slap, and hit harder
It really sounds like we want our drums to beat us up. Anyway, Diablo Lite, a new free plug-in from...
LIRA-8 reimagines the LYRA-8 organismic drone synth in Pd, VST, AU free – donationware
The wonderfully mysterious analog LYRA-8 synthesizer world now has an unofficial digital cousin - and it's free-or-pay-what-you-can for Pure Data...
Texture is a free, rich granular reverb plug-in with mid/side for Mac, Windows
You deserve some instant ambience - ready to pour over your sounds like so much maple syrup. Hell, yeah -...
Arturia’s Juno-6 chorus recreation is free this week as a plug-in
It's one of the all-time great chorus effects - and now you can bite off just the chorus of the...
