Latest about Synths
One of our favourite instruments of 2024 gets even better as Polyend adds a sample engine to Synth
Superbooth 2025: “I’ve always admired how Andy Stott builds tracks from just a few carefully shaped samples and his minimal, textural approach influenced the design”
Instruō's new semi-modular Seashell offers time-saving total recall of parameters via software
Superbooth 25: The Seashell looks like the perfect bridge between the knob-twiddling world of modular synthesis and DAW-based workflows
Frap Tools’ debut polysynth Magnolia might be the most exciting new instrument of 2025
Superbooth 2025: The forthcoming Italian synth can do 8-voice through-zero FM, wavefolding and more – and comes equipped with a poly aftertouch keyboard
10 producers share the studio gear they can’t live without
A raft of music-makers choose the items that are integral to their workflow
"There’s potential for a degree of chaos here": Cherry Audio Yellowjacket review
The EDP Wasp gets the Cherry Audio treatment
Fantastic (free) plugins and how to use them: Full Bucket FB-3300
Classic synthesizer plugins offer a great entry point for unusual and rare synth designs, and this Korg design is one of the rarest
How a happy synth accident inspired a US number 1 single for Terence Trent D’Arby
“I heard this drone. An engineer, Sean Oliver, he had taken the DX7 keyboard and he had just pushed the pitchbend wheel back and forth”
Cherry Audio's new synth is Yellowjacket, a recreation of EDP’s trend-setting Wasp from 1978
You didn’t have to be a genius to see it coming, and you don’t need much cash to climb on board
