Arturia Origin Desktop 🧻🧻🧻
Prelude The number of times I have seen this thing, and thought maybe/ no/ maybe/ no/ maybe/ NO DAMN YOU is appalling. Appalling! “It’s just Arturia’s software synthesisers in a…
Tag: virtual analogue
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UltraProteus 🧻🧻🧻🧻
E-Mu started life in early 70’s Santa Cruz making modular synthesisers. They weren’t always good (the first one was ceremoniously thrown out a window) but included technology (like the polyphonic…
Ensoniq MR Rack 🧻🧻 (and Fizmo)
Mister Rack: Father of FIZMO The legend goes like this – in its death throes, Ensoniq, once proud innovator of SID chips, ASRs and Transwaves, gave one last heave. They…
Alesis Micron and Ion 🧻🧻🧻
Alesis Micron: finally quit smoking The Ion arrived five years after the main Japanese virtual analogues. Boasting millennial processing power, it reached 8 voices each with three oscillators compared to…
Six Free Synthesisers & a Peace Pipe
Vital has been moved to its own page. We’re blessed that software instruments are available, rarely the cost of hardware and often their equal. We’re especially blessed by free, or…
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…
Xferrecords Serum 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
It’s a little sad that the original wavetable creators PPG and Waldorf are mostly forgotten, for wavetables now mean XferRecords’ Serum (and the tributes that desperate software houses have made…
Steinberg HALion 7 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Updated for version 7 and many errors punched. I have written about eras of sampling, and the horror of owning hardware in a seething pit of wires. That leads to…
AKAI MPC Live 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
When used by people who don’t play bongos Now available – Part 2 – in which the MPC is used as an audio workstation on stage. In 1985 I was…
Yamaha AN1x 🧻🧻🧻
It is the 90s & there is time for Klax! I kept finding myself saying the AN200 is great box, but if only it had a better interface. And there…