As you consider selling a kidney to fund your next 15 or so synth purchases, take a moment to stop and check out all the cool stuff you can have for free this week!
THERE ARE NO NEW SYNTHS! (yet) Behringer treats us to a rambling conversation and improvised demo of four of their new synthesizers the Vocoder VC340, MS-101, RD-808 and Odyssey.
While we are busy covering NAMM 2019 announcements and teases (it's intense this year...), generous and hard-working developers squeezed in a trio of free plug-ins for having fun during downtime.
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Many products promised for 2018 didn't materialise. Did they vanish without a trace or are just taking longer than they hoped. We dug into our favourite missing synths of 2018 to find out.
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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
The synth is organised around two YM2413 emulations which comprise the main synth engine, and a new synth "core" dedicated to drum sounds. This allows for creative layering possibilities.
Following an update to version 2.5, Spectrasonics' software synth powerhouse Omnisphere will integrate with over 20 hardware synths by the likes of Moog, DSI, Roland, KORG, Behringer, Novation, and others.
Arturia has updated its V Collection virtual synthesizer suite to version 6.1, adding improvements and NKS integration with Native Instruments' Maschine and Komplete Kontrol controllers.
With a couple of cool synthesizers under his belt Uli Behringer turns his attention to Eurorack modules. Do we want Behringer modules for $49-$99? If you've got some ideas Uli would love to hear them.
With the latest update to GarageBand for iOS, Apple finally took advantage of the elaborate camera system it developed for the iPhone X to turn facial recognition into a music controller!
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Fancy 94 products, 43 virtual instruments, 16,800 sounds in 179GB, 39 mastering processors and 350 guitar related gizmos? IK Multimedia Total Studio 2 MAX has got you covered.
Meteor is designed to bring the most content to producers and sound designers involved in film, games, music production and anything else in need of a variety of moods and timbres.
Qu Bit have created a Eurorack module that puts Scanned Synthesis into hardware for the first time. The Scanned Organic Wavetable VCO is like a string held in space that you can manipulate in interesting ways
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.
in case you are in the mood to try something new, here's a cool freebie that just popped up - Palette is inspired by paintboxes and has eight coloured rectangles that trigger samples.
Latvian synth specialists Erica Synths introduced another interesting modular toy to spice up your everyday patching. This is the Joystick Controller, which uses a joystick to drive your modular rig insane...
