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Delta-V Audio’s SpaceCraft granular synth has been orbiting iOS for about a year but now it’s being brought into land on the planet of desktop so we can all have a ride. SpaceCraft What initially hits you is the bright and colourful interface that’s buzzing and pulsating at you. Then you brace yourself for the […]
Crusher-X from Accsone expands again and this time it’s going to smash you over the head with Grain Controlled Oscillators (GCOs), modulation arpeggiators, envelope following granular modulations and a sample loading DCO. Do we understand any of this yet? Probably not but it sounds like fun! Crusher-X 8 It’s a granular synthesizer that leads the […]
On the last day of Superbooth 2019, MFB surprised everyone when they unpacked the prototype of the SYNTH 8 polyphonic analog synthesizer. It’s a polyphonic version of the SYNTH II, but with improved circuits and some new ideas. With three VCOs per voice, we can expect some thick and lush analog sounds! MFB saved the […]
Nothing happens to the Bass Station II for years and then we get two significant firmware updates with little time between them. This latest firmware update features an AFX Mode inspired by Aphex Twin (Richard James) vision of what the Bass Station II could be capable of. Bass Station II V4.14 Hot on the heels […]
ROLI has made its upcoming Studio Player application and plug-in available as a public beta. The software contains all three of the company’s sound engines, adding a new interface and various production and composition tools. ROLI plans to release Studio Player officially sometime this summer. Meanwhile, owners of a ROLI Seaboard or BLOCKS can download […]
The Kurzweil PC range of performance controller and production station keyboards come stacked with sounds, effects and masses of control. The new PC4 ups the ante with an all-new 6-operator FM engine with the ability to import 80’s/90’s FM SysEx files and more. Kurzweil PC4 The PC4 is a significant jump from the previous generation. It […]
It’s a big one. SampleTank 4 is upon us and the fully maxed out version offers over 8,000 sounds and 250GB of samples. That’s one heck of a download. SampleTank 4 SampleTank is the original workstation software synthesizer specialising in a broad selection of sounds, covering all genres wrapped up in a simple 16-part multitimbral […]
Twisted Electrons has released the same bit of hardware in two forms. One is the games console reflecting HapiNES L and the other is a new version of their Acid8 8-bit bassline synthesizer. Same hardware, different engines and different paint jobs. Let’s check them out. HapiNES L We saw the original HapiNES back at Superbooth 2018. […]
This is where Arturia has been heading all this time. After 20 years of emulating synths from across the decades they’ve pooled all that experience into Pigments, a visually enticing mega-synth that takes modulation, randomisation and probability to some very interesting places. Pigments Well, I was right about it being a super duper software synth. […]
He’s not the Messiah, he’s an emulation of the Prophet 5 (to paraphrase the Life of Brian). Messiah 2.0 is a brand new version of the Messiah Prophet 5 virtual instrument coded by Chris Kerry. Messiah 2.0 We all ike a bit of Prophet 5 and Messiah certainly looks the part. Version 2 brings some […]