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Aug 14, 2021September 2, 2022

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…

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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 14, 2025

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…

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Aug 14, 2021April 14, 2025

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…

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Aug 12, 2021April 24, 2025

Pigments is not Four! 🧻🧻🧻🧻💩

Look who’s Four! Six! I admit it’s been a while since I visited the farm. I just can’t give up that card image it’s too funny to my infantile humour.…

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Aug 12, 2021March 20, 2025

KV331audio Synthmaster 🧻🧻🧻

(I have version 3 installed – I just haven’t got around to writing about it.) It was claimed for v2.9 (at the time this was written) that this is “one…

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Aug 12, 2021September 6, 2024

NI Massive and Massive X 🧻🧻🧻

City of Lost Noises Poor Massive, such a soulful and gentle instrument but so muscled up that everyone just wants to start fights with it. It reminds me of Ron…

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Aug 12, 2021July 19, 2023

NI Kontakt 6 🧻🧻🧻🧻

uber alles When I write about samplers or tools that include sampling I find myself comparing this or that feature to Kontakt. This is better, this is worse, I’ve made…

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Aug 12, 2021December 8, 2023

Waldorf Largo 2 🧻🧻🧻

Happy 10th birthday! Now grow up! Happy 12th birthday – look – you’re all grown up now! And black! Using the first Largo after Serum was a painful experience –…

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Aug 12, 2021March 20, 2025

Synapse Dune 3 🧻🧻🧻

Given that there are so many virtual instruments available in every conceivable genre, you spend your whole time looking for the point of difference. Why is any 3 oscillator virtual…

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