sound design

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,...

Arturia Augmented BRASS makes it uncommonly easy to build up hybrid brass sounds

Arturia has rounded out its Augmented line with Augmented BRASS. It's like a hybrid brass plug-in even for people who...

Here’s Ben Burtt breaking down every single iconic sound design from Star Wars, film by film

If you love sound, it's impossible not to be enchanted by the work of Ben Burtt. His approach to sound...

May the 4th: KORG reissues ARP 2600 FS in limited run, for your R2D2 sounds (Gallery)

One of the most sought-after instruments of all time is back in the form of its complete, authentic recreation ("FS")....