OXI Coral 3.0: six new engines, DX7-style FM and build-your-own firmware
OXI Instruments cracks its polyphonic Eurorack synth wide open with firmware 3.0: six fresh sound engines, a six-operator DX7-compatible FM engine, and…
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Spitfire Audio Phoenix: price, specs and the BT hybrid synth with six synthesis engines
Spitfire Audio has launched Phoenix, a hybrid software instrument built with producer BT. Six synthesis engines, a fully stereo architecture, 40GB of…
Polyend Drums: price, specs and the hybrid analog + digital drum machine
Billed as Polyend's most ambitious project, the Drums packs four true analog voices built on SSI chips and four digital tracks into…
Additive synthesis explained: partials, harmonics and building sound by stacking sine waves
Additive synthesis starts from a simple, dizzying idea: any sound can be rebuilt by stacking sine waves. Here is how partials, harmonics…
Music Thing Radio Music Mk2: price, specs and the hackable eurorack sampler
Music Thing Modular has rebuilt the Radio Music, one of its best-loved modules, as a Mk2 that keeps the spirit and changes…
LFO explained: rate, depth, waveforms and modulation destinations
The LFO is the movement engine behind almost every synth patch: it makes a filter sweep, a note shimmer, a pad breathe.…
MOTU Digital Performer 12: price, Dolby Atmos and AI stem separation
MOTU takes its Digital Performer workstation to version 12: immersive Dolby Atmos mixing up to 9.1.6, in-house AI stem separation, a new…
Polyend Loop: price, specs and the four-track looper idea machine
Polyend has unveiled the Loop, a compact instrument that pairs four stereo loopers, a drum machine and more than a hundred effects.…
Roland TR-1000: price, specs and the return of true analog
Roland's TR-1000 Rhythm Creator is its most ambitious drum machine in decades: sixteen analog circuits descended from the TR-808 and TR-909, a…
Soundpaint 5.0: 8Dio’s free sampler adds a Brush editor, 8 layers and a 2000-step arp
Soundpaint hits version 5.0 and finally grows up. 8Dio's free engine gets a built-in sample editor, an eight-layer engine and a monster…