Novation UltraNova and MiniNova 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
Want a real review? Look at this. We are poor sinners crawling upon the face of the Earth. We are weak and mortal. There is no shame in admitting that…
Tag: virtual analogue
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Nord Modular G2 🧻🧻
Well that sure fixed my little red wagon This was one of the first items that I wished to collect – although not a wonky 90’s rack as such, it’s…
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…
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 1 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
There is now a Serum 2. Please take the escalator here. It’s a little sad that the original wavetable creators PPG and Waldorf are mostly forgotten, for wavetables now mean…
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…