PLUGIN WEEK 2025: It's likely that we're all guilty of periodically shunning our existing repository of plugins and VIs, and splash out on a shiny new synth, hoping it’ll provide us with a fresh, ...

With none of the physical and financial constraints of hardware - and all the benefits of modern CPU power - there's an even greater diversity when it comes to software synths. Models of classic ...

Grab your favourite softsynths and let us take you on a journey into their evolution. Learn how to get more out of them and see how they stack up next to the pioneers that inspired them When you ...

As the former editor of Computer Music, I've reviewed and worked with more software synths than most. Across our pages we covered the whole spectrum, from meticulous models of hardware classics, to ...

The second major update to Logic Pro X in 2015 adds the well-known Alchemy synth and the ability to publish directly to Apple Music Connect. Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming Dan ...

The Roland Cloud is looking brighter with their latest addition announced today, a series of Model Expansions beginning with the JX-8P Model Expansion. Upcoming releases will include SH-101, JUNO-106, ...

Since 2019, Ableton’s Learning Synths website has been a fun and free way to learn all the cool things you can do with synthesizers. If you don’t know what oscillators, filters and envelopes do, the ...

Synth Library NYC aims to demystify these sometimes complicated, often expensive instruments into the hands of anyone who wants to try one. Synth Library now has 650 members. Once a month, several ...

[Ivan Franco] sent us this great synthesizer project that he’s working on. Or maybe it’s more like a synthesizer meta-project: a synthesizer construction set. You see, what Pryth has is a Raspberry Pi ...

When Native Instruments first released the virtual synth Massive in 2007, it quickly took the music production world by storm. Producers loved the three oscillator wavetable synth plugin -- with its ...