Waldorf Blofeld 🧻🧻🧻
German Humour (updated August ’21 …and again in ’25) There’s something about the Blofeld that inspires inadvertent snickering. Like an editor being released by “SoftKnobs”, which makes perfect sense but ……
Tag: wavetable
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Arturia Microfreak v5 🧻🧻🧻💩
More updates – now with three and a half knobs. Before anything else – thank Arturia for actually trying out ideas not the regurgitation practised by Behringer and Roland. In…
Ensoniq ESQ-M 🧻🧻🧻🧻
The old cat at the back of the cage I’ve owned my ESQ-M since 1987, the year it came out. I’ve taken it all around the world and made a…
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…
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…
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…
Arturia Pigments is Seven! 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Look who’s Seven! Although the versioning is rather elastic. Sometimes it’s One Giant Step For Mankind. Other times – like now – it’s a groovy lava lamp when you play…
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…
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…