Synths Reviews

After going from soft to hard synths, Arturia is going soft again, with its first analogue synth getting a virtual version. It’s a Brute

Korg’s latest synth is billed as an ‘analogue modelling’ instrument, but is that description underselling it?

Elektron's influential sampler returns with enhanced audio capabilities, new filters and LFOs – and now supports Overbridge too

A synth/sampler that packs in a lot of power at an almost silly price – despite its low profile. We gaze at Horizen…

Expressive E brings us a new software instrument that will undoubtedly excite and resonate. We make a racket!

The world’s first electro-mechanical synth has evolved. We see how the Mk II compares...

We ask if Moog’s new flagship polysynth is indeed a dream source of musical inspiration

Peter V is fast becoming the most ground-breaking plugin developer around. His latest is a synth of mythical proportions

This updated VSM continues to prove that strings are very much the thing! We swot up on our virtual string theory

If you’re after a colourful new synth, Cherry Audio has something that covers the whole spectrum. We look through the prism