sound design

Mille is a 1000-oscillator swarming droning synth to delight your ears and hurt your eyes

Composer-developer Giorgio Sancristoforo continues to deliver complete hardware sound laboratory experiences in standalone software form for your Mac or PC....

VCV Rack has a new manual for all its free modules – and it’s a great modular tutorial

VCV Rack, the free and open-source host, has added a new illustrated manual for all its free modules. (Free docs,...

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...

Make Noise brings Tom Erbe’s soundhack spectral ideas to a dual oscillator: Spectraphon

The pandemic apparently brought together modular house Make Noise, instrument maker Jeff Snyder, and soundhack creator Tom Erbe. Spectral analysis/resynthesis,...