Latest about Synths
Watch Peter Gabriel and futurist Ray Hammond debate the impact of the synthesizer back in 1983
“For me it’s something of a dream machine,” says Gabriel. “I always fantasised about something [with] which you could take any real world sound and manipulate it and put it in your music”
Serum 2, Pigments 6, Phase Plant, Vital and Massive X: The ultimate soft synth showdown
As Serum 2 shakes up the competition, we pit five of the most powerful, flexible and full-featured synth plugins against each other to find out who comes out on top in 2025
12 new instruments and effects you need to know about from Superbooth 2025
New synths, drum machines, effects and oddities from the Berlin synth expo
New to synthesis? This free synth plugin can help you learn how it works
Developed by the makers of synth training app Syntorial, Primer can be used to learn the fundamentals without getting bogged down in advanced concepts or distracting additional features
Superbooth 2025: all the latest synth news from Berlin, as it happened
Knob tweakers, assemble!
Novation’s Bass Station II has officially entered its Swifty era, thanks to a new collaboration
And it’s still tailor-made for beefy low-end sounds
Groove Synthesis announces a more compact and affordable version of its superb 3rd Wave synth
Superbooth 25: “A more accessible entry point to the 3rd Wave sonic universe”
Roland releases free update to the SH-4d bringing new oscillator models and the ability to pattern chain
Superbooth 25: The update widens the scope of Roland’s punch-packing modern classic
