Toptastic Tenfold
I used to have a top ten synthesiser page. But then I realised that it was a stupid idea. But then I realised that stupid ideas are my forte.And that…
Tag: spectral
10 Posts
Oddities Exhibition: Kontrast and Sumu 🧻💩
I am firmly behind innovation. The endless regurgitation of 20th century analogue sound-alikes is cowardly, ineffectual and tedious. We have enough Jupiter 8 and Space Echo clones to populate a…
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…
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…
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…
Morphing! Morphing?
Some hardware has appeared on eBay that unleashed a blurry flurry of thought I’d put to rest years ago. An unfortunate person had ordered a feast of Kyma boxes and…
Dawesome MYTH 🧻🧻🧻🧻
That’s MYTH in CAPITAL LETTERS. I’m all for more resynthesis tools and so pleased to see this one finally released. Spectral resynthesis is a process where a sound sample is…
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…
U-He FilterscapeVA 1.5 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
For a very long time I have been whining about filters. For no good reason they are very often neglected in synthesis in favour of oscillators. Even worse – it’s…
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…