Death to the ladder. We need new filters.
I hear much about oscillators: the unstable VCOs of yore, the digital waves of the 90’s, wavetables, geo-blends, samples… so many great ideas – but this luxury of waveforms is…
Tag: spectral
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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…
Virtual ANS 🧻🧻
Rather than me explain it all why not go to the source? The hardware ANS was named after Alexander Scriabin, who mixed the occult with piano to good effect. It…
Vital 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
Everybody from KORG to NI to Arturia has been trying to catch and eat Serum. Even Roland (Roland!) has finally dabbled with wavetables. Vital is the fox that finally got…
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…
PPG Wavemapper and Infinite 🧻🧻
Who doesn’t know PPG? Wolfgang Palm Products GmbH? Actually most people – a search for PPG software now brings up PPG Paintmanager, an awfully quick online forgetting. Wolfgang Palm? Invented…
UHe Zebra 🧻🧻🧻💩
The BatSynthesiser Can I start by saying the best thing about Zebra is that it comes with Zebralette, which represents only one module of the parent software. There is enough…
Tone 2 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Unashamedly Digital The other day I saw a review that complained the Tone2 synthesisers were ‘unashamedly digital’. Which introduces shame into how you make bleep-bloop noises. Could we just say…
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 –…
AIR Loom 2 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Loom 2 – A Legend (Not Especially) Evolved Update June 2023 AIR is that foster kid that never got a break. When they were young their parents Mr & Mrs…