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Dec 11, 2023

Dawsome Novum 🧻🧻🧻

The idea is interesting – you take a sample and slice it into six new samples over frequency ranges from very low to very high. You can then shuffle the…

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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 28, 2022August 2, 2023

Borderlands 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

Borderlands is the ultimate iPad instrument – a melding of hardware and software. It takes every virtue of the pad – swiping and pinching and zooming – and forms them…

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May 21, 2022July 5, 2023

Kilohearts Phase Plant 2 🧻🧻🧻

There is something called Superbooth which seems to involve a competition for how many cables you can shove into a box full of sockets without the marbles falling down a…

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Aug 14, 2021July 26, 2023

Arturia Microfreak v5 🧻🧻🧻💩

More updates – now with three and a half knobs. Before anything else – thank Arturia for actually trying out ideas not the regurgitation practised by Behringer and Roland. In…

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Aug 14, 2021April 21, 2024

Steinberg Padshop 2.2 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

Updates and corrections April 2024 Padshop was once a granular synthesiser in Cubase that you’d play with on the odd occasion. Granular synthesis is lovely for pads and waft –…

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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, 2021April 24, 2025

Pigments is not Four! 🧻🧻🧻🧻💩

Look who’s Four! Six! I admit it’s been a while since I visited the farm. I just can’t give up that card image it’s too funny to my infantile humour.…

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Aug 12, 2021July 5, 2023

Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.8

🧻🧻🧻🧻💀 Great, Great, Great, Great Granddaughter of the Roland Yacht. Update 8th March 2022 – we now have packages that ‘plug into’ Omnisphere called Sonic Extensions. Given that Omni descends…

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