Soft Synths
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Synplant is back, and version 2 uses AI to grow sounds based on any audio file you feed it
By Ben Rogerson published
The horticultural soft synth has blossomed into something even more impressive

The ultimate guide to wavetable synthesis
By Stuart Adams published
A technique used by everyone from Tangerine Dream to Skrillex, wavetable synthesis adds new dimensions of texture and movement to your sound design. But how does it work?

Thanks to Autochroma, granular synthesis can now be 'fun'. Yes, really…
By Andy Jones published
Autochroma will make you smash those grains and laugh while you're doing it, apparently

Cherry Audio and “the roar of the lost synth”: new emulation of a “rare antiquity” set to land next week
By Ben Rogerson published
Will it be a summer blockbuster?

The ultimate guide to Arturia Pigments 4
By Leo Maymind published
Leo Maymind delves deep into the expansive world of Arturia’s latest Pigments upgrade

Here’s how you can download IK Multimedia’s J-60, a Roland Juno-60 synth emulation, for free
By Ben Rogerson published
It retails for $50, but you can currently have it for nothing if you know where to look

The Great Synth Showdown: Which is the best hardware polysynth in 2023?
By Si Truss published
We pit vintage against contemporary, analogue against digital and experimental against conventional in our quest to find the best contemporary polysynth

Superbooth 23: Reason’s ‘organic’ Objekt synth promises sounds that you can’t create anywhere else
By Ben Rogerson published
Could this be the instrument that makes you fall in love with physical modelling?
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