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PolyGAS is a very capable granular synth. It's easy to use, it has a good range of preset sounds and wave files, looks fabulous and works a treat. And it's free. That's very useful indeed.
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Soundless is a cool little VST synthesizer with a fierce amount of resonance and loudness. It's the first VSTi from TopSounds and they believe it's going to be the best thing ever!
Behringer post a mysterious image on Facebook of what appears to be an action shot of an MS-101 synthesizer complete with modulation grip - is this an SH-101 clone?
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Here it is, the Boutique synthesizer we've all been waiting for. Roland announces the SH-01A, their 4 voice polyphonic ACB reissue of the classic SH-101.
Free Plug-ins Galore! Our list of the best free plug-ins is ready for your perusal. It includes mixing tools, guitar plug-ins, virtual synths and a whole lot more...
Version 2.2 of the Minitaur firmware brings in some very welcome modulation modes and waveforms and a nice bit of hard sync along with all the refinements we've been asking for.
Now at version 10.3.2, the $200 Mac-only DAW grows with the addition of three new Drummers, new ready-made Drummer loops, several improvements to Alchemy, the Touch Bar, and tons of fixes and improvements!
This mother of a pedal is all about bringing us guitarists some heavenly synth tones - but be warned: Mothership 2 not for the faint-hearted! This purple pedal might get your head in a twist...
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You can now rummage around inside the synthesizer guts of the MicroKorg XL and XL+ with this new standalone and VST plug-in editor and controller. If you own an XL, you should have this.
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We found some video on this new MOSTRO FM tabletop synthesizer where all the parameters have been made available on knobs. Should be making its way to Kickstarter very soon.
Audio Damage brings us a new and updated version of the classic additive software synthesizer you've never heard of. Dust off your Apple II and let's get digital with Phosphor 2.
Ready for the best free plug-ins this week? There's a delay, a compressor, a Korg-style synth, a console emulation and a tape saturation effect - phew!
Yonac KASPAR looks like it could be a great iOS alternative to "monster" synths like KV331's SynthMaster, with 24 oscillators, 8 filters, 8 arpeggiators, and 2 effect buses - running simultaneously...
Did I say snakes? I meant sequencer - momentarily distracted by the mythical beast that turned Jason's Argonauts into stone. Medusa is a 3 oscillator monosynth with a sequencer and arpeggiator by Polyend.
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Do you find programming synthesizer a bit dull? Why not get a machine to do it? Midimutant will analyse your sounds and start programming patches by artificial evolution.
Percussa have asked the Eurorack community if they fancy a Super Wavetable Oscillator in their rack with 64 parallel oscillators, 18 CV inputs and fully configurable routing and modulation. What do you think?
