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Sounds and Presets: The Best Presets of 2024

This week, I take a look back through my Sounds and Presets column to pick out the best presets that we featured in 2024

Sounds and Presets: A Huge Sackful of Fantastic KORG Presets

KORG's microKORG2 takes the legendary microKORG to new heights, much like the opsix did for FM synthesis. Check out these new KORG presets and more in this week's Sound and Presets.

Sounds and Presets: The Arturia Polybrute 12 Finally Gets Great 3rd Party Patches!

Scott McAuley Sounds delivers one of the first Arturia Polybrute 12 specific sound banks, and Expressive E releases the Legend HZ Expressive Suite.

Sounds and Presets – Think Like a Synth and Make Your Own with Anthony Marinelli!

Week after week, I deliver some amazing presets and samples to stuff into your instruments but why not learn to make your own with Anthony Marinelli's new "Think Like a Synth" course!

Sounds and Presets: Appalachia Delivers an Authentic Mountain Dulcimer, Plus 300+ MiniFreak Patches!

Appalachia from Indiginus brings the magical sound of a Mountain Dulcimer to your Kontakt library with all the performance scripting you need to sound like a master.

Sounds and Presets: A 90s Classic Gets Rebrained – New Sounds for the CS6x

Yamaha's CS6x often gets overlooked. A synth tech from the Midlands, U.K. reckons we need to re-evaluate our perceptions and treat it as a classic.

Sounds and Presets: Relive Classic E-MU and Ensoniq Sounds, Free Sounds from TCHC and Sonicware

The classic E-MU and Ensoniq sample libraries were, and still are, highly regarded for their variety and quality. You can still enjoy these sounds in the form of Kontakt/NKS libraries from Digital Sound ...

Sounds and Presets: Open Up a Time Capsule For Your AX73 and a Wavetable Stash

As well as some amazing free sounds for two modern French classics, there's a Time Capsule for your Martinic AX73 and a shedload of wavetables.

Knife Drop: Jack White Synth Octave Fuzz

The Knife Drop is an Eventide and Third Man Hardware collaboration. With Jack White at the helm, this could be epic!

Sounds and Presets: Hive 2 Presets from Expressive E and New Sounds for Atomika

Plenty of variety this week as we check out new MPE presets for u-He's Hive 2 from Osmose manufacturer, Expressive E and a new Piano library for IK Multimedia's Pianoverse.

Sounds and Presets: Juno What? The Roland Classic That Still Commands An Audience

The Roland Juno range of synthesizers still pleases many an ear to this day, and now they receive the Samples from Mars treatment.

Sounds and Presets – Moog Muse, Korg NAUTILUS and GForce Artist Presets

This week we have some of the first 3rd party preset packs for the new Moog Muse, plus some spooky Halloween sounds for KORG NAUTILUS and KRONOS users!

Sounds and Presets: Remarkable Orchestral Instruments For Less, Plus Bargain Synth Patches

This week, we take a look at two of my favourite orchestral sample library developers who have each created libraries that achieve the impossible. They make me sound good!

iZotope Aurora is an Intuitive Algorithmic Reverb

With iZotope Aurora, you can get clean reverb processing that reacts to the input signal, allowing you to build reverbs that cut through the mix.

Sounds and Presets: The MASK1 Unmasked, Tones For TEO and a Global Sound Library

We have a nice collection of hardware synth patches and samples this week that includes sounds for Kodamo's MASK1, amongst others.

Sounds and Presets: Getting the Yamaha SY77/99 Sound in 2024

After redefining the sound of the 1980s with the DX7, Yamaha upped their game to take on the competition that had fought back. The Yamaha SY77 and SY99 were their response, but how do we get that sound today?

Sounds and Presets: Vangelis with No CS-80 Required!

Mention the maestro Vangelis and the Yamaha CS-80 will surely be referenced sooner rather than later. This week we check out a library that manages to evade that connection.

Sounds and Presets: 50 Great Patches for Waldorf Quantum/Iridium, opsix and More.

Sounds and Presets covers new sounds from Jamie Morden at GEOSynths with his Flux Vol. 1 for the Waldorf Quantum and Iridium. There are also new sounds for KORG's opsix!

Sounds and Presets: Tap Into Trevor Horn’s Impressive Library

Trevor Horn is one of the most influential producers of the last 40 years. Now you can access some of his most prized sounds for less!

Sounds and Presets: Get Medieval Without an EP-1320

Seeing as Teenage Engineering want to take us back to our primitive past with their new sampler, I thought I'd dig out some medieval samples that we can all use.

Sounds and Presets: Alicia’s Electric Keys, Ambient MiniFreak Patches & Great Peak Presets

Following on from the hugely successful and brilliantly named, 'Alicia's Keys', we get Alicia's Electric Keys. We also check out some Peak and MiniFreak Patches.

Sounds and Presets: Free Minimonsta 2 Patches and Binaural OB-X8 Sounds

This week we're indulging in some lovely new binaural patches for the splendid Oberheim OB-X8, exploiting its new v2.0 firmware.

Sounds and Presets: Free Hydrasynth Patches and More!

This week's guide to amazing patches for your synths includes a free bank for Hydrasynth, a wealth of sounds for KORG's modwave and a new bank of sounds for XILS-Labs Kaox.

Synth Side Hustles: 5 Fun Ways to Make Money Off Your Gear

There are more ways to get paid than just by writing and releasing songs. Here are five synth side hustles to help you earn a little extra cash.