82 Results for "virtual analog"

Warehouse meets your house: How to sound like The Prodigy

The Prodigy rose from the rave scene in the late 1980s and became a hugely successful crossover act, we look at what went into their sound.

How to sound like Jean-Michel Jarre

As one of electronic music's early exponents, Jean-Michel Jarre is an inspiration for many. We check out some of his favourite synths!

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.

Best free plug-ins this week: Luxon, DeeMute, Goblyn

This week’s collection of free plug-ins features the Luxon VA synth, MIDI-controlled muting and ducking with DeeMute, and Goblyn, a “nasty" amp sim.

Review: Mayer EMI MD900 XVA Desktop Synthesizer

The Mayer MD900 is an impressive desktop synthesizer packed with features like wavetables, VA synthesis, and even a clip launcher. Here's our review!

Genki Cosmos: Sonic journeys through space and time

Genki Instruments has a new software synthesizer that will echo your music across the universe. Cosmos is playful, intuitive and bound by the gravitation pull of synthesized sounds, let's check it out.

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!

O.P.L.A 4-voice polyphonic virtual analog synth with 4000 waveforms

Hansy Synth has taken 4000 waveforms from Adventure Kid Research & Technology and stuffed them into the very affordable O.P.L.A 4-voice mini-synth.

Superbooth 2021: Mayer MD900 extended virtual analog and wavetable synthesizer

Mayer has announced the MD900 X-VA that evolves their M800 Eurorack synth module into a fully-fledged desktop synthesizer.

Tone2 Saurus 3: analog emulation synth scores an update

Saurus 3.0 brings this mighty analog software emulation bang up to date with an enhanced GUI, randomisation, microtuning, and more sounds.

Flowtones: Virtual analog synthesizer in VSTi form

ToneBooster Flowtones layers up some virtual analog sounds with multiple windows of sound design and editing as a plugin for your DAW.

Minipol: 6-voice virtual analog with Smart Random feature

Minipol from Karanyi Sounds has some random smarts to inject fun and uniqueness into this cool looking 4-voice virtual analog synthesizer.

Best free plug-ins this week: WhispAir, GR-8 and Nettle

This week, we're highlighting our three favorite synths from this year's KVR Developer Challenge. Are you ready for WhispAir, GR-8 and Nettle?

NUSofting Sinmad: VA and physical modelling synth for improvising sounds

Sinmad has a novel approach to sound generation and a peculiar and organic voice combining two methods of synthesis in a colourful interface to encourage improvised sound discovery.

Plinky: 8-Voice Synthesizer plastered in icons and full of fragility

Plinky is a playfully melancholic polyphonic synthesizer in Eurorack or desktop form that wears its fragility in a touchable interface.

F.’em: 11 Operator FM hybrid quad-timbral Synthesizer

11 Operators configured through a freely assignable matrix with FM, VA and sample-based sounds, multimode filters and a complex effects engine. Did we miss anything?

Pigments 3: New harmonics, utilities, wavetables, Jupiter-8 filter and more

"Revolutionary" new synth? A solid update, more like. Arturia's Pigments 3 adds Harmonic and Utility engines, Wavetables, a Jupiter-8 filter and new FX.

NAMM 2021: Kurzweil K2700 Workstation Monster

Kurzweil invites us to witness the arrival of the heavyweight K2700 Workstation which continues the long and legendary K2 series of mammoth musical machines.

Deal: Kazrog True Iron transfomer saturation plug-in is 50% off

Developer Kazrog has taken 50% off the price of possibly the finest transfomer saturation modeling plug-in there is. That's a lot of iron for your USD 20, indeed!

Deal: 80% off the Novation V-Station and Bass Station plug-in bundle

The Novation V-Station and Bass Station plug-in bundle is currently on sale at 80% off. That's a perfect opportunity to add these emulations of two classic Novation synths to your collection.

Arpeggio: the cutest little box of melody from Tangible Instruments

Tangible Instruments says preorders are open on the adorable little Arpeggio box. It's cute, portable, packed full of melody and could keep you making tunes for hours.

Ampethron Portable: an expandable hardware touch-screen synthesizer from the future

Phasenetic Labs are calling it Ampethron Portable and it's a hardware synthesizer built into touch screen interface with expandable algorithms and an Xbox controller. This looks like fun!

NAMM 2020: Nord Wave 2 4-Part Performance Synthesizer

Nord is introducing the Nord Wave 2 - a powerful 4-part performance synthesizer combining Virtual Analog synthesis, Samples, FM and Wavetable and have covered it with controls.

Cheeze Machine Pro: the cheesiest string synth has matured

2getheraudio tells us it's time to gorge or the new and improved Pro version of the Cheeze Machine string synthesizer. Sounds good, smells good, tastes good.