144 Results for "Synthesis"

First fiddle with the Voltage Modular virtual Eurorack beta

Voltage Modular from Cherry Audio is a virtual Eurorack style environment for MacOS and Windows. It's in Beta and we got an early look at what's shaping up to be a very interesting software modular experience.

StarCruncher: Monophonic distorted realm explorer accidental minisynth

A new form of distorted synthesis discovered after a lab coding accident that has been likened to crashing data streams together is both painful and breathtaking. StarCruncher is somehow terrible and awesome.

Tone Lab: a stackable modular synthesis system for easy music making

Finding synthesizers a bit too complicated? Tone Lab provides simple interactive hardware that lets you build up sounds in layers of clearly labelled synthesizer blocks. How high will your tower of sound go?

ONDA computerised musical instrument from Critter and Guitari

Bringing together aspects from the Organelle and Pocket Piano ONDA is an open platform of synthesis, effects and sampling in an enhanced, Raspberry Pi based form factor, with cool light up buttons.

Love Hultén Noistation hand crafted space synthesizer

With the Axoloti core and Patcher software, Noistation can use many forms of synthesis and generate all sorts of sounds while being a fabulous looking piece of future-retro space furniture.

Superbooth 2018: Dreadbox Medusa synthesis and sequencing with Polyend

Medusa is a hybrid synthesizer combining analogue and digital oscillators, up to 6 paraphonic voices plus an expressive 64 pad grid of sequencing and modulation programming. Now with video!

Superbooth 2018: Odessa 1975 Variable Spectrum Harmonic Cluster Oscillator

Xaoc Devices get into Additive Synthesis with partials, harmonics, and a whole lot of combing, tilting and warping. So dial in the partials and turn up the tension and watch the power density spectrum soar.

Norns: a platform for sound processing, synthesis, poetry and form

Norns is a minimalist metal box harbouring the power of processes to evolve and morph into anything you can write a script for. Monome's slow reveal is an enticing look into the mind of a synthesis developer.

IK Multimedia teases possible synth announcement for SuperBooth

By the looks of it, the Italian powerhouse has a synthesizer in store for SuperBooth. The Berlin modular synth expo will happen between May 3 - 5, so we expect an announcement around these days.

Cultivating sound from plants at Assiniboine Park Conservatory

The Assiniboine Park Conservatory is over 100 years old and falling apart. Winnipeg artist Helga Jakobson is taking recordings of the plants bioelectric energy and transforming it into music before it's gone.

PATCH & TWEAK: Exploring Eurorack for the modular curious

Following the success of PUSH TURN MOVE author Kim Bjørn is launching a second book on Kickstarter called PATCH & TWEAK - Exploring Modular Synthesis. Your coffee table has never looked so good.

Are these Bivalvia Synthesis boxes the cutest synthesizers you have ever seen?

Beautiful little boxes of sound from artist and electronic designer Love Hultén. Based on an Axoloti core and can be programmed for any sort of synthesis and effects. You must have at least one of each.

Cloudlab 200t Buchla based modular instrument for Reaktor reaches version 2

Trevor Gavilan releases a new version of Cloudlab 200t Buchla ensemble for Reaktor 6. It's still free, it's even more remarkable and a fabulous way to get your West Coast thing going.

FaithState: an ethereal 12 voice modular synthesizer and synthesis sandbox

A complete modular synthesizer with 9 generators, 12-voices, 500 waveforms and a wonderfully playful illuminated surface of interactivity - if you're a believer in synthesis then checkout FaithState.

Erica Synths Graphic VCO wavetable designer module is now available to order

We first saw this thing in December and then it was at NAMM last month and while it looks fabulous the Graphic VCO has been a little tricky to fully get a handle on. Erica Synths have just released it for sale ...

Quantakor plug-in: Mean AI-generated soundscapes and alien drones

Need a collection of moody sounds for your production? Eplex7 has come up with Quantakor, a soundscapes and FX instrument based on artificial intelligence algorithms. It packs scifi, kybernetic, experimental ...

NAMM 2018: Mordax GXN Granular Synthesis System

Good looking GXN Granular Synthesis System from Mordax for sweeping grains and scrubbing samples. Hampered by a lacklustre demonstration but then this is a pre-production prototype.

NAMM 2018: Mysterious Voltage Modular virtual rack first look!

A bunch of industry veterans have got together to produce what looks to be a virtual synthesis and sound processing environment. Voltage Modular will be revealed at NAMM. Here's our first glimpse!

NAMM 2018: Robin’s synthesizer predictions

Arturia releases EuroBrute, Roland puts ACB in a multi-functional Eurorack module, Yamaha re-releases the CS-80 and Moog converts everything to Eurorack. Here are my NAMM 2018 predictions and a mixer I want.

MusineKit 2: A musical adventure playground

Developed by Sensomusic and La Muse En Circuit, MusineKit 2 brings a playful and creative musical box of modules to touch, control, manipulate and mess about with on Windows or MacOS. Pure joyfulness.

Cycling ’74 announce Max 8 coming after Ableton Live 10

With Ableton Live 10 absorbing Max for Live Cycling '74 are using that development and testing time to evolve the full version of their music application builder and bring us Max 8.

Andrew Huang nails modular synthesis in a 7 minute video

Prolific music and video maker Andrew Huang completely nails what modular synthesis is all about in a snappy, cool and inspirational 7 minute YouTube video to 1 million subscribers. The secret is out.

DoubleDrummer: 12-voice drum synth and sample player

Audiothingies have revealed their forthcoming DoubleDrummer drum synthesizer and sample player. 6 synthesized drum sounds alongside sampled kits in a neat desktop box.

Recorded some badly tuned drums? Waves’ new Torque plug-in can help

So you've recorded some drums and noticed after the band left the studio that the tuning was off. Delete the project? Waves says its new Torque plug-in can help.