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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
Expanded with updated information about version 7 down the page. I have written about sampling, and the horror of owning hardware in a seething pit of wires. That leads to…
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…
Look who’s Four! To be honest not that different to 3 and a half. But they finally had a look at that dreary interface and made it a lot less…