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This is a Kontakt instrument with a difference, built from samples of a one-off electro-acoustic instrument — a box with several guitar strings and a contact mic attached...
Moodscape’s Autoplay button is a wonderful introduction to its charms. With a single touch, it generates a musical artwork that’s different every time...
The MicroGranny 2 is a miniature granular sampler, and you won’t have to sell any of your elderly relations to get one.
Drips is a complete analogue drum voice that can be tweaked to produce kicks, snares, hi-hats and so on as well as Kraftwerk-style zaps and thwaps.
This compact module will serve as four linear VCAs or as a four-input mixer — for audio or control signals.
Rebel Technology’s Phoreo [Rendering its name in Greek will break the SOS publishing software — Ed] is a clock,...
Marble is a seamless blend of synthetic and acoustic sources. Its 63 instruments are split into Harmonic, Percussive and Textures, and each patch consists of two components taken from them.
In a world of reissues and recreations, the Hypersynth Xenophone is resolutely doing its own thing.
Designed in collaboration with SpaceHardware, the Quadnic packs four digital oscillators into an impressively compact 12hp...
Mutable Instruments’ Rings introduces the idea of virtual strings to generate its own flavour of polyphony.
I Wish is a granular synthesis plug-in that uses incoming MIDI notes to play very short loops of audio.
Dronar is a Kontakt instrument that translates the everyday into the epic. When fed with a simple triad chord, it cunningly fills out the middle range, provides a building-shaking bass and inserts highs to rival the most discreet online pharmacy.
Eclipse is a Kontakt instrument with a lot of similarities to Orbit, Wide Blue Sound’s previous opus. The installation...
When it comes to FM synthesis, Korg’s little Volca is thinking big.
Known for their idiosyncratic approach, Teenage Engineering’s latest product is pocket friendly in every sense.
Rhythmic Robot strike again — and with a double whammy! I can only speculate about this labour of love, feeding an Emulator II with a near–endless supply of 5.25–inch floppy disks.
Phonem sees wavetable synth pioneer Wolfgang Palm turn his attention to the tricky problem of vocal synthesis.
We explore Borderlands Granular Synthesizer App for iOS, Shure MV51 iOS/USB condenser mic, and Native Instruments iMaschine 2 sequencer.
The Koma Elektronik Komplex combines four step sequencers in one box, yet still manages to be greater than the sum of its parts.