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Jan 31, 2024January 31, 2024

discoDSP Vertigo 4 🧻🧻💩

There was once a time when additive synthesis was the next big thing, around the same time that the programmer designed the interface and wrote the manual. Here is an…

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May 10, 2023February 10, 2024

DS Audio Thorn 🧻🧻🧻🧻

I think that Thorn has not been a smash hit. It had accolades on first release in 2018 but has not been prominent since – the fate of many spectral…

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Aug 29, 2022February 10, 2024

Virsyn Cube, Poseidon et al. 🧻🧻🧻

Elsewhere I touched on Wolfgang Palm’s attempts to streamline spectral synthesis – which I think have been unsuccessful when compared to the work of Harry Gohs (trading as VirSyn). The…

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Dec 4, 2021February 14, 2024

KORG opsix 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

A quick update – there’s now a software version which works and sounds exactly the same – with a little more pleasant interface. You no longer need the hardware but…

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Aug 14, 2021February 10, 2024

Apple Alchemy 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Camel Alchemy was reborn as an Apple product. Nice for some. This is the complete negation of hardware, the do everything, super-bloody-complex mega-synth that is completely and utterly disinterested in…

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Aug 12, 2021March 20, 2025

KV331audio Synthmaster 🧻🧻🧻

(I have version 3 installed – I just haven’t got around to writing about it.) It was claimed for v2.9 (at the time this was written) that this is “one…

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Aug 12, 2021March 17, 2024

Arturia V Collection & Keylab 🧻🧻🧻🧻

This is the old page for versions up to 8. I once compared this software collection to the Smurfs. Let me update that slightly… It’s still the Smurfs, but with…

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