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Drips is a complete analogue drum voice that can be tweaked to produce kicks, snares, hi-hats and so on as well as Kraftwerk-style zaps and thwaps.
Marble is a seamless blend of synthetic and acoustic sources. Its 63 instruments are split into Harmonic, Percussive and Textures, and each patch consists of two components taken from them.
Mutable Instruments’ Rings introduces the idea of virtual strings to generate its own flavour of polyphony.
Eclipse is a Kontakt instrument with a lot of similarities to Orbit, Wide Blue Sound’s previous opus. The installation...
In a world of reissues and recreations, the Hypersynth Xenophone is resolutely doing its own thing.
I Wish is a granular synthesis plug-in that uses incoming MIDI notes to play very short loops of audio.
Designed in collaboration with SpaceHardware, the Quadnic packs four digital oscillators into an impressively compact 12hp...
Dronar is a Kontakt instrument that translates the everyday into the epic. When fed with a simple triad chord, it cunningly fills out the middle range, provides a building-shaking bass and inserts highs to rival the most discreet online pharmacy.
Known for their idiosyncratic approach, Teenage Engineering’s latest product is pocket friendly in every sense.
When it comes to FM synthesis, Korg’s little Volca is thinking big.