"OSC" Steve

Before you open your wallet for a new synth plugin, consider revisiting Logic's E series, 7 soft synths you may already own

In the second of a new series exploring why music-makers choose their DAWs, "OSC" Steve talks us through the reasons behind his love of Logic

We spotlight another bunch of lesser-known features in Apple's increasingly powerful DAW

Get to know one of the most creatively versatile effects plugins included with Apple's flagship DAW

Apple's flagship DAW is more powerful than you think. Here's 10 useful features you might not have discovered yet

Get to grips with impulse responses and convolution reverb in our guide to one of Logic's most versatile reverb plugins

This beastly synth is one of the most powerful tools Logic has to offer. We finish up our guided tour

Logic's most formidable stock plugin combines additive, granular and spectral synthesis with a host of powerful features and effects. Join us on a guided tour

This hugely powerful tool, included with one of the world's most popular DAWs as standard, packs several vintage-modelled, great-sounding compressors into one plugin

Discover the best free guitar VSTs with our pick of no-cost amp and cab sims for guitarists and producers

This bumper pack of free effects processors from MeldaProductions is so good, it probably shouldn't be free (but don't tell them that)

Next up in our guide to making music with the internet's most capable freeware, we decode the mysteries of the vocoder

Hold on to your oscillators as we journey into the realms of stochastic synthesis, randomized tuning and Iannis Xenakis

Our guide to one of the web's biggest free high-quality sample libraries and the free sampler plugin you can use to play them

Our guide to two of the most powerful free sampler instruments available to the budget-conscious producer

Discover the magic of 8-bit sounds, chiptune and video game soundtracks with this free synth plugin

We take on Digital Surburban's stellar recreation of the iconic Yamaha DX7

We open the hood on a powerful (and free!) Oberheim emulation and dive into the world of analogue modelling

We deconstruct this powerful freeware synthesizer and show you how to build a patch from the ground up

There are some real gems among the 32 included plugins

Get that sweet, crunchy old-school sound with these free and affordable tools, or do it with the stock plugins in your DAW

Our ongoing tutorial series takes on perhaps the greatest free synth of them all, the beastly Surge XT