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Brainworx and Plug-in Alliance promised us some software synths at NAMM earlier in the year. The first one to emerge is a rather brilliant recreation of the classic Oberheim SEM.
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SFC-1 is a beautifully realised hardware controller for the U-He Repro-1 software emulation of the Sequential Pro-One. Is that a better hardware experience than the forthcoming Behringer Pro-1?
Parallels uses two paths of multi-wave samples from a range of fabulous synthesizers and blends them together with effects and modulation to give you an engaging and colourful software synthesizer.
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Roland has taken on the 3rd March as 303 day to reclaim the beloved TB-303 Bass Line synth and released an authentically modelled software version of the analogue classic - dammit!
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Whatever sound you can possibly imagine can probably be found amongst the 8000 presets of SampleTank 4. IK Multimedia's behemoth sample-based software workstation is available now.
New World Music expansion packs and a bunch of acoustic drum kits have been added to your Roland Cloud account for instant download.
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A brand new bumper bonus bundle of synths, effects, instruments and loops are yours for free with the Komplete Start collection with Kontakt 6 and Reaktor 6 players.
Gig Performer is a live performance VST host for instruments and effects. The new version brings in a setlist concept for faster loading, better MIDI, Ableton Link and Chord Pro support.
Techno-L HN1 is a badass-looking rompler stuffed full of ready-to-go sounds for techno, minimal and industrial genres that also could be suited to other types of electronica as well.
2018 saw a plethora of inventive, appealing software synthesizers, including our Top 5 by Arturia, FXpansion, Native Instruments, Waslio Audio, Cherry Audio and Waves. Wait, that's 6?!?
An Instragram video of musician and producer Julian Wassermann at play on his Nektar Panarama T4 controller keyboard also shows an unknown VST synthesizer with the Nektar logo and the name BOLT.
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Arturia has dropped Pigments, a visually enticing mega-synth that takes modulation, randomisation and probability to some very interesting places. Get your first in-depth look here!
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More voices and oscillators in unison than you could possibly use, doubling up on filters and arpeggiators and a complete wavetable editor make this one decent upgrade.
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You can now design, program and build your own modules for personal use and explore polyphonic modules within the 1.1.1 update for Cherry Audio's Voltage Modular
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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.
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With version 0.6.2 of VCV Rack you can now load up all your VST plugins and virtual instruments as virtual Eurorack modules and control them with CV - genius!
