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Mar 20, 2025March 20, 2025

Serum 2 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

It’s been so long since Serum 1 was released that Serum 2 resembles all the software inspired by its decade old ancestor – you might at first glance compare it…

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Mar 9, 2025March 20, 2025

Korg multi/poly 🧻🧻🧻

From my experience of Korg’s previous lower/case synthesisers with little key beds, I didn’t buy the multi/poly hardware – betting that software would arrive not long after (which it did).…

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Nov 19, 2024November 19, 2024

Sonicware Liven Ambient 0 🧻🧻🧻💩

Sonicware are a Japanese company that takes pre-orders and ships out their Liven keyboards once orders reach a set goal. It’s not exactly playing hard-to-get but more like hard-to-test these…

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Nov 19, 2024November 19, 2024

Yamaha Montage M

Don’t be shy. Tell it like it is. Having synthesisers is like having that rocket ship that you really wanted to pilot when you were a kid. Your own Death…

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Sep 21, 2024

U-He Bazille (revisited) 🧻🧻🧻🧻

I’m sorry but every time I hear Bazille I see this. It has no relevance and should not appear in a review but damn it, that’s just the way it…

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Aug 8, 2024September 6, 2024

Tracktion Various Artists

Having bought Tracktion’s KULT, MYTH and NOVUM I was sent an application to download updates and demonstrations of their other instruments. We are sure you will love these other fine…

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Jul 16, 2024July 16, 2024

The dialects of FM

FM synthesis has enjoyed a surprising popularity and longevity – from the inscrutable but best selling DX-7, a plethora of cheesy OPL sound cards for game consoles, a rabble of…

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Feb 10, 2024July 16, 2024

Yamaha DX7 🧻🧻🧻💩

In 1985 there came a choice: upgrade to a Jupiter 6 and keep the synthesis that I knew well, or swap to the DX7 and start again from scratch. Both…

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Dec 14, 2023September 21, 2024

U-He DIVA and HIVE 🧻🧻🧻

DIVA There was a time when DIVA was one of the few software synthesisers to sound like ‘the real thing’. In fact several of ‘the real things’ and furthermore ‘real…

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Aug 31, 2023June 3, 2024

‘logue SDK

If you have a minilogue XD, prologue or just the little NTS-1 you can run DSP code as oscillators or effects. The good thing is that anyone can create a…

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