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Sampleson gets playful and intuitive with THINGS: the synth for fun times

THINGS is a fun virtual instrument that gives you a great place to play while generating surprisingly cool sounds, modulating rhythms and weird noises.

ResonHeart: An acoustic sound generator with a mechanical soul

The physical modelling in Xhun Audio's ResonHeart is based purely on the mechanical components of clockwork, air pumps, motors, pneumatic valves and complex resonators. It's a mechanical synthesizer.

Reason Studios reveal Scenic cinematic dream instrument

The first piece of news we've had from the newly rebranded Reason Studios is to introduce Scenic. It's described as a cinematic hybrid instrument for tension, suspense, relief and joy.

Aliens invade Reason with Helium Quad Evolving Synthesizer

The Helium Quad Evolving Synthesizer Rack Extension fuses synthesized waveforms with real instrument waveforms to crossbreed hybrid alien/human sounds controlled by a very dark interface.

ORBIS: The World Synthesizer from Spitfire and David Fanshawe

ORBIS is the latest instrument from sampling supremos Spitfire delving into the extraordinary archive recordings of global sonic explorer David Fanshawe.

Sampleson Akoustic Spectral Synthesizer with organic spectral acoustic modelling

Akoustic is a wonderfully weird and organic sounds spectral and additive synthesizer that mutates acoustic instruments through spectral modelling and partial manipulation. Subtle, nuanced and strange.

Soma Dvina: strings vibrating in magnetic fields electro-acoustic instrument

Soma Laboratories has come up with the simplest of classical stringed instruments where vibrations are captured with magnets, transformed, pre-amped, delayed and distorted in completely haunting ways.

NAMM 2019: iCON Platform U22 VST high-resolution audio interface

A slightly odd looking 2 in/out audio interface designed to match the Platform line of controllers the Platform U22 VST is a high-quality simple recording solution with some DAW-less plugin action.

Markus 88: a spectral modelled Stage 88 electric piano

Sampleson has taken their Rhodes samples apart and found that they only need to tune sine waves to accurately recreate the entire spectrum of sound. Markus 88 is only 25MB and sounds like a 2GB instrument.

FR3TZ° – brings Euclidean beats to string harmonics in a Reaktor instrument

FR3TZ samples the harmonics from 4 guitars, feeds it through Reaktor's granular synthesis module and triggers it with 3 channels of competing Euclidean patterns. The result is deliciously percussive and ...

SampleRobot 6: fully automated recording and sample instrument building

SampleRobot 6 sucks in sounds and spits out sample library. Connect up any hardware synth, or loopback any virtual one to automatically generate multisampled instruments. Now available on MacOS and Windows.

Native Instruments updates industry standard sampler platform Kontakt 6

Kontakt 6 brings new sounds, new effects, a wavetable synthesis engine and the ability to design, build and script your own instruments. Does the upgrade tick enough boxes for your Kontakt wish list?

Native Instruments debuts Komplete 12 and new Collectors Edition

Native Instruments create the biggest bundle of instruments and sound library in the world with Komplete 12 Ultimate Collectors Edition. There's a regular version too all featuring Kontakt 6 and Massive X

SolinStrings recreates the always fascinating ARP Solina String Ensemble

A sampled emulation of the ever-popular ARP Solina Strings from Sono Elements. SolinStrings captures the sound and feel of the original and offers a simple, unfussy interface without any bells or whistles.

Top 5 software synthesizers 2018

Here are the Top 5 software synthesizers or virtual electronic instruments that your computer should be chewing on in 2018. Did your favourite get on the list?

Tracktion Retromod recreates a bunch of Nord, Roland and Moog synthesizers

Tracktion Corporation has released Retromod LEAD, 106 and FAT, some meticulously sampled instruments based upon 6 Clavia Nord instruments, a handful of Roland Junos and a big bunch of more modern Moogs.