This week's collection of free plug-ins brings you an experimental Max for Live device and two classics. Here's Spectral Attractors, Defiant WT and A1TriggerGate.
Hermann Seib has worked with PPG synthesizers for decades building computer interfaces, emulating them in software and helping Wolfgang Palm develop his PPG software instruments.
Behringer reveals a PPG Wave clone called the BBG, along with a prototype. But wavetable synthesis evolved in the 30 years since the PPG Wave came along - will the BBG be an anachronism?
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The awesome ASM Hydrasynth is getting even better with the latest firmware update. Version 1.5 adds a bunch of new filters, modulation capabilities and microtonal scales.
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Sample Logic's Symphonic AI is an ambitious orchestral instrument built with 13GB of multi-samples animated by a proprietary quad-core audio engine and messed about with randomness.
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Electronic musician Hainbach with SonicLab has produced Fundamental capturing the old test equipment he uses and present it as a thoroughly dynamic plugin dripping with character and possibility.
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Iridium features all the synthesis elements of the Quantum synthesizer in a solid metal desktop format with more polyphony but without the analog filters, keyboard and premium price tag.
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In a departure from their previous rustic boxes the Ellitone E(64) is a proper product with a wide spectrum of sonic possibility and experimental interaction.
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Matt Tytel has been releasing small feature videos of his forthcoming Vital wavetable synthesizer and it's looking pretty fabulous and should be getting near to release.
A decent update for the Argon8 family of wavetable synthesizers brings in MPE support, a Polyphonic Step Sequencer, Envelope Curves, Gain Boost and a few other bits and pieces.
This week's roundup of the best free plug-ins includes a unique synth, a one-knob compressor and a tube preamp. Stock your plug-in folder with LightPadSynth, TruPressor and TUBA.
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Flame has updated their remarkable Mäander desktop synthesizer and live sequencer with a massive wavetable expansion along with FM and a bundle of other tweaks and improvements.
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From the awesome internal synth fiddling app Components Novation has added wavetable editing and uploading for their Peak and Summit synthesizers in the latest firmware update.
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A new 1.4 software update to the Hydrasynth brings a PhazDiff mutant and new noise generators while a third-party sound design tool will algorithmically morph parameters to new places.
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Waldorf's hybrid uber-synth Quantum gets a big 2.0 update including a whole new oscillator that brings in 6-operator FM and blows open many more possibilities.
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The Secret Southside Synthesizer Society (Tssss) has released a mini desktop synthesizer DIY kit called StartHere designed as a beginners introduction to Synth DIY and based on the MeeBlip Anode.
