23 Results for "ambient"

Superbooth 23: Elta Music Solar 42 Microtonal Polyphonic Ambient Machine

Elta Music has condensed and enhanced the Solar 50 down to the still-stunning Solar 42 Ambient Machine for drones and awesomeness.

Rave Superstar: How To Sound Like Sasha

Welsh DJ Sasha made a massive impact on the dance music industry in the 1990s before taking his skills to the studio. We find out how!

DecadeBridge Bora: 6 oscillator drone synthesizer

6 oscillators pour out of the DecadeBridge Bora handmade drone synthesizer with semi-modular cascading sync and internal pitch modulation.

Best free plug-ins this week: Infinite Space Piano, FunkBass and Abstract Crystal Pads

We’ve got three sampled instruments for you in this week's collection of free plug-ins: a spaced-out piano, a funky bass and a collection of dreamy pads.

Meet Brian Eno’s turntable a marvellous light cycling LED art piece

We look at Brian Eno's limited edition LED turntable, his latest visual arts offering through the Paul Stolper Gallery in London, UK.

Tape Fragments from Mars: Experimental feedback loops

Samples from Mars has captured a bunch of analog synth movements through tape feedback loops for experimental sounds in multiple software instrument formats.

Darklands: A Soundscape Synthesizer for our current Dystopia

If you're not feeling depressed enough then you can inject some added creepiness and despair with Darklands Dystopian Soundscape synthesizer from Puremagnetik - it's what we need right now.

Tonsturm Wind Maschine: Make music with an obscure air instrument from the 60s!

Need some new textures in your songs or projects? The obscure 1960s Windhowler is a comprehensive virtual instrument that's ripe for all sorts of sound design experiments.

VHS Dreamwaves: nostalgic and vibey 80’s throwback rompler

"Ghostly VHS tones, softly degraded keys, hypnagogic sound beds and wobbly synth leads" packaged into a convenient rompler with LFO, filters and envelopes! What's not to like?

Best Sample Packs This Week: Magical guitar, ambient atmos, synth drums, EDM hits

The best new sample packs: a magical acoustic guitar emulation, some rich ambient/sci-fi sounds, cool synthetic drums and a fully-featured pack of EDM loops. Let's dive in.

SOLAR 50 ambient monster synth with 50 oscillators emerges from ELTA Music

They are calling the SOLAR 50 the "Big Ambient Machine" designed for creating atmospheric sounds and super polyphonic electro symphonies. Some photos and a video has popped up, what do we know so far?

Puremagnetik Zerone: this comic-themed particle splitter pulverizes your audio

Puremagnetik has released Zerone, a granular effects processor that shoots your audio to pieces with its laser eyes. These particles are then time compressed or expanded to create ambient soundscapes.

Rocket Surgeon Ice Caves Ambient Reverb: Glacial ambience for the adventurous

The new Ice Caves Ambient Reverb pedal is an Arctic-themed take on reverb pedals with a unique set of parameters for those that like to get more experimental with their 'verb. Frosty!

Time-stretch any sound into oblivion with PaulXStretch!

If you want to do some seriously mean time-stretching with your audio - we are talking stretching a 3-minute song into a 10-hour ambient masterpiece, for example - you are going to love this one!

LeafAudio Microphonic Soundbox: ambient swells for days!

Check out the video demo for some serious ambient action, achieved by bowing springs and tapping plates. The Microphonic Soundbox is gloriously weird and you don't have to be Trent Reznor to buy one...

Summer NAMM 2017: Hotone XTOMP mini

If you are a guitar geek that likes to tweak your effects via software, then this dinky box may well appeal to your inner knob tweaker. With iOS and Android integration, it'll keep you busy for hours.

Empress Effects Echosystem – A lot of space in one tiny box

For those of us that love delay, the new Echosystem pedal from Empress Effects could be the ultimate delay-crafting tool.

A ‘double-stereo’ microphone! Check out the Samofix Feature 2S

Here's a unique offering for the world of pro audio from Croatia. The Feature 2S is a completely new design of microphone, and it sounds amazing!

Dark Matter: Unsettling sounds from String Audio

Dark Matter is chillier than the icicle hanging from an alien monster's beard who is about to jump out at you from behind a disturbingly shaped landscape dripping with the terrors of a thousand haunted worlds.

Dronar Guitar Soundscapes rocks in from Gothic Instruments

Escape into a world of shimmery pads and ethereal atmospheres in Gothic Instruments' Dronar Guitar Soundscapes. Heavy on the pads, light on the rock.

Zynaptiq release new reverb plugin: ADAPTIVERB

Here's a cool new reverb plugin which claims to harmonically trace and 'fit' around your input signal. ADAPTIVERB also has a few party tricks on offer too.

Behringer synthesizer has 12-note poly in teaser 4

Teaser number 4 reveals the unexpected polyphony count and a more ambient, pad feel. Come Behringer, stop it now, let's have it!

Chime Sharp, the music remixing puzzle game returns

Manipulate music while playing Tetris on a sequencer grid - Chime Sharp is a wonderfully creative waste of your time with tracks from CHVRCHES, Chipzel, Haiku Salut and many more.