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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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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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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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May 27, 2024May 28, 2024

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…

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Apr 21, 2024November 18, 2024

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…

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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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Jan 31, 2024June 4, 2024

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…

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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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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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Aug 6, 2023December 12, 2023

Europa 🧻🧻🧻🧻

It’s a damn shame that Reason Studios pulled back from the VST market. I get that they didn’t want to distract from Reason, their main product. But if you want…

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