Ever wanted to experiment with modular synthesis before spending large amounts of cash? Do you like being online? Get sound designing right now thanks to TrueGrid - a modular synth in your browser.
With the Sequential Prophet 6 ready to ship, we can now reveal that Steve H, publisher at AskVideo & Jordan Rudess, Dream Theater, are responsible for programming presets on this new DSI synthesizer.
How do you control your analog hardware synths? Keyboards? Pads? Buttons? Other synths? Software? Gestures? How about the weather? That's exactly what Weather Warlock does and it's beautiful.
When you're sitting in session after session watching guitarists mic up their amps you pick up a few tricks! Now imagine applying those micing techniques to your synths... G.W. shows you how.
Sylenth is one of the most popular and used software synths for electronic dance music production, and with good reason. Rishabh Rajan takes us through how to use its arpeggiator in this video.
This tutorial on making a dark, brooding pad is taken from Rishabh Rajan's FREE interactive eBook: NI Massive Sound Design Recipes available for iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android and PC.
Featuring Mutable Instruments Eurorack modules, a Roland SH-101and Ableton Live, this performance of ambient track Purple Memory Clouds from Brian Knoll shows just how beautiful modular synths can be.
Although we already reported on this a couple of days back, here's the official info on NI's new Komplete Select, also available for existing Komplete Kontrol & maschine users!
To commemorate Bob Moog's 81st birthday MOTU have released the Bob Moog Foundation Encore Soundbank as a UVI sound bank and created with Moog Modulars, Minimoogs, Buchlas and many more synths.
Electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder has joined forces with Novation to release a limited edition synthesiser, the MoroderNova. Just 500 are being made so grab one now...
From Richard Devine to Dave Smith, performances to exploring how synthesists communicate their identity, Synthesized (the documentary) seems to have plenty that synth heads will enjoy.
Even if you haven't yet updated to FL Studio 12 yet (why not??) Gary Hiebner shows you how to translate visual pixels into sonic synthesis using BeepMap. We wish every DAW had this!
German born, London based electronic musician & producer, Ulrich Schnauss, is known for this work with Tangerine Dream, My Bloody Valentine & Slowdive. Here he showcases his synth collection on video.
Designed to 'stop monophobia' the new ENKL monophonic synth from Klevgränd is great for creating fat basses, glitchy noises, leads and chip tune sounds. Check out the video below.
Verbos Electronics manufactures a line of Eurorack format synthesizer modules designed by Mark Verbos. We talked with him at MusikMesse 2015 to understand and hear more about what the modules do.
What exactly is the Modal 001 synth? How different from the 002 is this analog, digital hybrid? What will it sound like? We sought to find answers to these questions at MusikMesse 2015.
Rapture Pro delivers sound creation excellence with a powerful interface designed for composition, live performance, and sound design; features over 1000 new sounds.
Future Audio Workshop's original Circle synth introduced a fresh take on synth sounds and a futuristic interface. Noah Pred finds out how version 2 is an improvement, both for sound and usability.