Imagine, Expressive E’s physical – synth hybrid, now has M1/M2 support and more sounds
It’s been a big year for Expressive E as their Osmose flagship hardware takes off. But they’ve got strong offerings...
soft synths
Dazzle at the soft synths of the Commodore Amiga – including a forgotten 1985 gem
The obscure software synth wonders of the Commodore Amiga hold up today as unique sound creation instruments. And as early...
Baby Audio’s retro BA-1 synth is now on iOS, too
Baby Audio's remake of the Yamaha CS01 is a perfect fit for iOS, since the original was cheap, cheery, portable,...
Inside Ableton’s Drift, the hardware-inspired synth in Live 11, with designer Marc Resibois
Drift is a friendly, MPE-ready, hardware-inspired synth that's now included in Live 11.3. Since anyone with Live 11 - even...
Roland updates Jupiter, Juno plug-ins – and finally fixes their preset UI; here’s a tour
Roland updated their Roland Cloud software recreations of the JUPITER-8, JUPITER-4, and JUNO-106. That includes new UIs, and finally a...
Ableton Live 11.3 in beta: more expressive control, new Drift synth
Ableton Live 11.3 hits public beta today, with more MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) throughout - including a new MPE-compatible synth,...
Synplant, mutation-based synth, to get alien-level cool Genopatch update
Sonic Charge's Synplant, a plant-breeding instrument with a alien lab UI, remains one of the coolest soft synths of all...
RP-8 is a “demake” of the ReBirth RB-338 for the PICO-8 fantasy console
ReBirth, the software recreations of the TB-303 and TR-808, helped launch Propellerhead (now Reason Studios) and demonstrated acid could be...
Inflation, begone: SunVox is still donationware, and 2.1 makes it slicker and more powerful
The runs-on-any-OS modular music studio got a major 2.1 update this week, with better high-res graphics, a new keyboard, and...
New in Arturia Pigments 4 soft synth: UI, tuning, modulation, effects, filters, engines, sounds
Arturia is bringing improvements to every conceivable area of their flagship soft synth. Pigments started off demonstrating Arturia could do...
