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Jul 6, 2023August 8, 2023

Izotope Iris 2 🧻🧻💩

File under Where Are They Today? I don’t actually remember there ever being an Iris 1, but I recall v2 coming out with much fanfare. It included a decent sample…

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Jun 30, 2023December 6, 2024

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…

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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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Sep 11, 2022August 2, 2023

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…

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Sep 2, 2022

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…

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Aug 29, 2022February 10, 2024

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…

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Aug 24, 2022August 2, 2023

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…

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Aug 14, 2021December 14, 2023

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…

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Aug 14, 2021August 20, 2021

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…

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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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