soft synths

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...

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...

Casio’s MT-100 toy keyboard is reborn as a free plug-in for macOS and Windows

Sample Science has a tasty freebie for us - Retro Cazio models the 1983 Casio Casiotone MT-100, for a very,...

Turn your iPhone into a realistic shaker instrument for free, with Klevgränd Rassel

Modeling what is surely the noblest of instruments, the developers at Klevgränd have taken their realistic shaker models and allowed...