xils-lab XILS4 🧻 and PolyKBIII 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Warning. One of these things is stupidly large. I have never warmed to the VCS3. I’ve tried the real thing, I’ve tried several emulations. At no point have I ever…
Tag: virtual analogue
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Cherry Audio Originals
This page will hold Cherry Audio’s original (and much more interesting) software titles. It is in progress – please stay tuned. Their replica instruments can be found here. Sines 🧻🧻🧻💩…
GForce ImpOSCar3, M-Tron Pro, Orchestron
Orchestron 🧻🧻 Let’s just start with the Orchestron. A shitty optical disc based sample playback machine that went nowhere EXCEPT that Kraftwerk bought one and lathered it all over their…
Integra-7 Ultra-yacht 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Why seven? Is it sins? Dwarves? I don’t see sevens in the design. There wasn’t an Integra-6. Or was it like RoboCop – took a few goes? It’s the top…
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…
MPC Part 2.
In which I actually used the damn thing as intended. (Yes, Donald Duck Hat, just keep moving.) I’ve previously written about the MPC as if it was an old white…
Electro Harmonix Mini Synthesiser 🧻🧻
I had one in 1981. It wore out. But now you can get it on your iPad. It sounds like a sick duck.
[MPC] AIR’s Revenge? 🧻🧻🧻
(Update 2025) You may have read my previous assay into the travails of Advanced Instrument Research, once the shining jewel of ProTools and now the Pinocchio of AKAI’s travelling puppet…
Roland AIRA MC-707 🧻🧻💩
Updated 11 Sept 2024 with new information about a third party editor. This is the fourth version of this article, and I have become more critical. I recently decided to…
Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate 13 🧻🧻🧻
Like a fat guy running down the street chased by wolves trying not to drop his ice cream. As an owner of Komplete 9 I’ve been offered an upgrade to…