94 Results for "software synthesizer"

Review: Arturia Pigments 4 Polychrome Synth

Arturia update their impressive polychrome soft synth, Pigments, to version 4. How have Arturia improved on this highly regarded instrument?

Best free plug-ins this week: RF-AB303, FrankCS, Comp 76

This week’s collection of free plug-ins features a gnarly TB-303 emulation, a versatile channel strip and a legendary compressor pedal.

Sampleson Alienize: Sci-Fi cinematics and textures from mouse gestures

Drag your mouse across a creepy scene of Alienize infiltration to generate tones, drones, textures and melodies fir for a Sci-Fi movie.

Best free plug-ins this week: Apricot, Epoch Amp, TesslaPRO mkIII

This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes a hybrid synth in the new CLAP format, an amp modeling plug-in, and an update of a famous saturator.

D16 Phoscyon 2 Review – The only 303 you’ll ever need?

D16 Group has released Phoscyon 2. Will the new version win the battle for the best software emulation of the TB-303? Read our review to find out!

Best free plug-ins this week: BlackVibe, Codec, Oi, Grandad!

This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes a custom tube amp, a digital degradation tool, and an open-source granular synthesizer.

Review: Cherry Audio Elka-X emulation of the Elka Synthex

An emulation of a classic. Cherry Audio gets to grips with the Synthex. Has Cherry Audio's Elka-X captured the lush tones of this polyphonic legend?

Best free plug-ins this week: Pneuma, Wave Manuel, Vibe Mechanic

This week’s roundup of the best free plug-ins brings you two very different synths and some tasty lo-fi vibes: Pneuma, Wave Manuel, and Vibe Mechanic.

Best free plug-ins this week: Stepocea, Substrate, Bratwurst Fuzz

This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes a polyphonic synth with a twist, a subharmonic bass enhancer, and a fuzz with an attitude.

Best free plug-ins this week: Explorer, Ambience Enhancer Lite and Quantize

This week’s roundup of free plug-ins includes a polyphonic synth, an ambience tool, and a lo-fi effect: Explorer, Ambience Enhancer Lite, and Quantize.

Review: GForce Oberheim SEM, the perfect emulation?

Endorsed by Tom Oberheim, the SEM from GForce Software brings the authentic and classic Oberheim monosynth sound to your DAW and desktop.

Best free plug-ins this week: Monolit, BLENDEQ, and Vox Amp

The awesome Monolit synthesizer is the star among this week's free plug-ins. We’ve also got a unique EQ and a distortion plug-in for vocals.

Roland JUPITER-4: Legendary synth now as a plug-in/plug-out emulation

Roland has announced the classically chunky and Compuphonic JUPITER-4 as an ACB modelled VST plugin or plug it out on your SYSTEM-8.

Superbooth 22: Arturia V Collection 9 takes it up to 32 instruments

Arturia has upgraded the V Collection premium suite of virtual instruments to version 9. It pulls in 4 new instruments and updates many others.

UJAM Deluxe: Instant sounds and patterns for hip hop and RnB

UJAM Deluxe is an all-in-one VST instrument that delivers old-school synth lines and patterns for hip hop, RnB and more. Get your groove on!

Behringer announces free plug-ins for its free DAW

Behringer's upcoming free DAW software will come with a suite of free or inexpensive plug-ins, including a UB-Xa software synth.

Korg releases wavestate native and opsix native software synthesizers

Korg has released the wavestate native and opsix native plug-ins. The software versions of the popular synths are fully compatible with the hardware.

Cherry Audio Dreamsynth: A tribute to 1980s hybrid analogue/digital synths

Dreamsynth DS-1 is a synth to be reckoned with, taking its inspiration from the digital and analogue hybrid synthesizers of the mid-to-late 1980s.

Deal: Buy a NI Komplete Kontrol keyboard, get Komplete 13 Select for free!

Now here's an awesome deal: Buy a Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol USB keyboard controller and get the NI Komplete 13 Select software bundle for free!

Syl and Sim Deluxe: Two new soft-synths from the Infected Sounds synth factory

With 100s of waveforms, hot presets, easy modulations and a fat effects engine you can't go far wrong with Syl Deluxe and Sim Deluxe if you can tell them apart.

Best free plug-ins of the year: Top 10 free effects and synths of 2021

Got some spare time over New Year's? How about some free plug-ins? Join us as we take a look back at the best free synths and effects of 2021!

What if synths weren’t hard? Ujam makes it easy with Usynth

Ujam says that synths are difficult and complex machines that no one understands and are offering Usynth as the patronisingly easy alternative.

Puremagnetik Voga: Stochastic Strum Machine that plays itself

Beautiful, simple and better at generating musical phrases than you are, Voga, developed by Micha Frank, is the perfect Karplus-Strong sidekick for plucky musings.

Best free plug-ins this week: Breadslicer, Overdose and DRUID X2

This week’s collection of free plug-ins is a little bit of everything: a random slicing effect, a 2-oscillator synth and a multi-effect for guitar.