Posts with tag synth

Review | Mar 22, 2019 by Rishabh Rajan

A fully hands-on way to craft and create electronic beats, the ADS7 from AVP Synths is truly and old school instrument. Rishabh Rajan put it through its paces in this video review.

News | Mar 21, 2019 by Hollin Jones

QWERTY keyboard mode and wavetable shortcuts on both oscillators are just a couple of the big changes coming in version 3. Read on to find out what else is new...

News | Mar 15, 2019 by Hollin Jones

Here's a novel way to combine technology from two different worlds. A 4-track rhythm machine made of LEGO, used to generate techno loops.

News | Mar 13, 2019 by Hollin Jones

With an FM-based software synthesizer based on the Game Boy Advance’s 16 MHz CPU, a sequencer and plenty of I/O, this new synth looks like it will be a lot of fun.

News | Mar 06, 2019 by Hollin Jones

Check out this video of ambient synth music played through Thyme, Bastl's digital tape FX unit.

News | Mar 01, 2019 by Hollin Jones

Buy a Korg Prologue 8 or 16 during March 2019 and get an SQ1 MIDI sequencer for free. Here's everything you need to know about the deal.

News | Jan 31, 2019 by Hollin Jones

Create amazing soundscapes, resonant lead synths, evolving basses, unorthodox percussive sounds, rhythmic textures, distorted noises and endless variations.

News | Jan 28, 2019 by Hollin Jones

Polyrhythmic sequencing, battery power and sounds ranging from small to huge are just a few of the talents of Korg's newest and most advanced Volca - the Volca Drum.

News | Jan 27, 2019 by Rounik Sethi

Bringing together the famous oscillator from the Prophet 5 and the much-loved Moog ladder filter, the Behringer Crave packs a punch way above its price tag.

News | Jan 22, 2019 by Rounik Sethi

One of the most highly anticipated eurorack modules as part of the Erica Synths Techno System is the new Sample Drum Module. Here's what you need to know.

News | Jan 15, 2019 by Hollin Jones

This unique desktop synth uses Phase Locked Loop Synthesis to generate some weird and wonderful sounds, and it has a whole bunch of tricks up its sleeve. See and hear it in action here.

News | Jan 14, 2019 by Rounik Sethi

A single piece of paper can be folded into innumerable shapes. In the same way, a single Nozori platform can morph into multiple eurorack modules.

Editorial | Dec 31, 2018 by Rounik Sethi

2018 was a great year for hardware synths. Demand for hands-on music machines continues to grow year on year. Here's some of our favorite hardware synths released this year.

News | Dec 18, 2018 by Hollin Jones

With a 4x oversampled synthesis engine, a freely routable signal and modulation path, Complex-1 is avialable to buy or rent-to-own today. Here's the details.

Review | Dec 14, 2018 by Noah Pred

Rob Papen's Explorer 5 is a bundle of great sounding, unique synthesizers and effects now including Master Magic, RAW Kick and Go2. Noah Pred unwrapped it, and here's what he discovered.