Synth Anatomy

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Synth Anatomy

Synth AnatomySynthsMelodee: a custom MPC Sample groovebox firmware with VST support Melodee by Keremimo is a new custom firmware that turns the Akai MPC Sample into a 16-track groovebox with VST3 plugins, running from a microSD card.

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Synth AnatomySynthsAI is turning Apple’s app review process into a nightmare for developers The surge of AI-generated apps is overwhelming Apple’s app review process, leaving developers caught in the crossfire – two examples among many.

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Synth AnatomySynthsAkai MPC OS 3.10.1 brings MPC Plugin SDK for custom instrument and FX plugins Akai MPC OS 3.10.1 introduces the new MPC Plugin SDK, a development kit that lets users create custom instrument and FX plugins.

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Synth AnatomySynthsBaby Audio Crystalline algorithmic reverb plugin (desktop/iOS) is now $4,99 for a limited time Baby Audio’s Crystalline plugin is the answer to vintage algorithmic reverbs (EMT, Lexicon)… enhanced and made more versatile with modern twists.

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Synth AnatomySynthsElastic OSC: iOS/Android polysynth with MI algorithms: update 2.2 with mod animations, better MIDI & more Elastic OSC is the latest Synthesizer app from developer Oliver Greschke that takes the Mutable Instruments algorithms on a wild, modulating trip.

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Synth AnatomySynthsPittsburgh Modular Microvolt 3901: the 3900 semi-modular synth returns as a plugin (desktop/iPadOS) Pittsburgh Modular goes software with the Microvolt 3901, a desktop and iPadOS emulation of the Microvolt 3900 semi-modular synth plus extras. Update: out now for iPadOS!

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Synth AnatomySynthsSynthux Academy Audrey III: the evolution of the feedback-driven Synthesizer Synthux Academy Audrey III is the second version of the unique feedback-driven horroscape Synthesizer, now with three engines and more.

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Synth AnatomySynthsRoland GALAXIAS 1.9.4: new update brings redesigned arp/chord sections and more Roland GALAXIAS is a new instrument plugin that lets you turn your Cloud plugins into a four-part, multi-layer super instrument: update 1.9.4 out now GALAXIAS is a kind of “super-instrument” from…

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Synth Anatomy

Synth AnatomySynthsBehringer AQ64L: a 64-pad clip launch grid controller with open-source firmware Behringer AQ64L is a new compact 8×8 pad clip launch controller à la Akai APC with open-source firmware.

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Synth AnatomySynthsLarix Elektro Origami Duo: it’s a dual complex oscillator, a synth voice, and more Larix Elektro Origami Duo is a dual analog complex oscillator module that is a synth voice, a stereo waveshaper, and more.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.