Posts with tag synthesis-techniques

News | Apr 14, 2018 by Hollin Jones

Get your fill of all things synth and electronics related at Soundmit 2018, southern Europe's largest festival of its kind. Here's all the details you need to know.

Tutorial | Mar 19, 2018 by Hollin Jones

With powerful wavetable shaping and editing tools, Serum may be the ultimate wavetable softsynth. Adam Pollard shows you how to get the most out of it.

News | Mar 06, 2018 by Hollin Jones

By pushing hardware to its extremes you can go beyond conventional programming techniques and create something special. This short video from Loopop explains one such trick...

Tutorial | Feb 15, 2018 by Hollin Jones

Learn how Control Voltage works in synthesizers and how it can let you create a virtually limitless universe of sounds. In this short video, Marc Doty explores using the LFO on a filter.

Tutorial | Feb 12, 2018 by Hollin Jones

Wavetable is a powerful synthesizer that's new in Live 10. But it has one feature that sets it apart from Live's other synths - can you guess what it is?

Review | Dec 04, 2017 by Noah Pred

The multi-talented Loom II from Air Music Tech features unique sounds, an array of modules and a friendly take on additive synthesis. Noah Pred was suitably impressed...

Tutorial | Nov 05, 2017 by Hollin Jones

Whether you're a beginner or a relatively experienced synth user, it never hurts to renew and refresh your understanding of the fundamentals of how sound and synths work. Here's 2 short videos.

News | Oct 12, 2017 by Hollin Jones

Whether you're after an introduction to synthesis or advanced tips to help you master your instrument of choice, you'll find courses to suit you in our ever-expanding library.

Tutorial | Oct 11, 2017 by Noah Pred

Breaking sounds down into grains is a great way to create completely new textures. Here, Rounik Sethi explains how granular synthesis works in every version of Live.

News | Oct 09, 2017 by Hollin Jones

Watch synth pop masters Stereospread perform live in an auditorium, then answer your questions in a free, live MasterClass Q&A.

Tutorial | Nov 20, 2016 by Peter Schwartz

In this final article in our mini series on the essentials of subtractive / analog synthesis, Peter Schwartz explores the principles of modulation.

Tutorial | Nov 07, 2016 by Peter Schwartz

Learn the essentials of subtractive / analog synthesis in this excellent four-part series with Peter Schwartz. Part two delves into the sound creation components of the analog synthesizer.

Tutorial | Oct 29, 2016 by Hollin Jones

A fat sound is highly prized, but not all synths can really do the business. Synth expert Marc Doty reveals the secrets behind the Minimoog's unique and much-loved sound.

Tutorial | Aug 29, 2016 by Darren Burgos

You don't need $10,000s worth of analog hardware synthesizers to recreate the gorgeous theme music to Netflix's Stranger Things. Here's how to get very close to the sound using u-he's Diva plug-in.

News | Jul 04, 2016 by Rounik Sethi

One month ago we revealed news of the M7-D, a large, slider-based, experimental synthesizer Ken MacBeth was working on. Now we can watch and listen to the prototype in action.