SOUND ON SOUND
The Monologue may be a cut-down version of the Minilogue, but it offers a few features its polyphonic big brother can’t match.
Addictive Pro adds more complex oscillator configurations, a better effects implementation and a hot-rodded arpeggiator, but has surprisingly dropped the very useful four-track looper of the original Addictive Synth.
Guitarscapes is built on a foundation of electric and acoustic guitars, plus mandolins and pedal steels. Sometimes the sources are obvious, but more often they’re not.
The humble TB303 has proved notoriously difficult to recreate in software, but ABL3 comes far closer than most.
Imaginando’s DRC is a polyphonic synthesizer available in multiple formats, which becomes of more interest when you...
Akemie’s Taiko is an FM-based Eurorack module covering CV-tweakable percussion and synth roles...
Arturia’s new drum machine features 17 analogue voices and a mildly astonishing price tag. And it’s really rather good...
Cinematic ‘Big Boomers’ are eagerly embraced by almost every field of commercial music these days and to service...
There are two AJH modules on review: the Sonic XV, based around an early 24dB diode filter from the Musonics Sonic V; secondly, the discrete transistor-based Ring SM, which can double as a five-input mixer and incorporates a pair of sub oscillator generators.
Qu-Bit’s Wave is presumably named after the Wave (wav) format samples it plays — up to four of them at once. A 4GB MicroSD card is included, ready-populated with drum hits, vocals, synths and sound effects, easily enough to get you going...