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Fantastic (free) plugins and how to use them: Newfangled Audio Pendulate
By Jon Musgrave published
This free mono synth plugin is creative, chaotic and fun to use. It’s time to go West (Coast)

Roland is giving away its software 303 free – but be quick, there’s only 3,030 up for grabs
By Si Truss published
Download the official Roland Cloud recreation of the synth that invented acid house

“It’s a mighty emulation of an emulation of an emulation”: GForce Novation Bass Station review
By Andy Jones published
Fancy some 16-voice 303 acid lines? Of course you do

“I want to shout from a mountain top about this incredible technology”: Is Dreamtronic's Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro really the first artificial vocalist to finally nail the fake factor?
By Daniel Griffiths published
Its makers claim to have reached “the holy grail of vocal synthesis” with MIDI/text singers that are indistinguishable from the real thing

This free synth plugin transforms physics into sound
By Matt Mullen published
RipplerX is a free physical modelling synth based on the venerable AAS Chromaphone plugin

What were those controllers sitting on Jon Batiste's piano when he sang at the Super Bowl?
By Ben Rogerson published
It’s a Star-Spangled puzzler, that’s for sure

Kays Catalogue classic the JEN SX1000 just got reborn as a plugin and iOS app
By Daniel Griffiths published
This 1978 £99 synth-for-the-masses has been rebuilt and ramped up for a whole new generation

The story of Arturia’s Pigments synth, from early challenges to the “huge milestone” of version 6
By Advertorial feature published
Pigments’ product manager reveals how he and his team created a modern classic
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