Synthesis / Sound Design

GRM Tools’ new sound design software is an absolute tour de force!

Alchemy’s granular engine is a sonic playground with infinite possibilities!

We tend instinctively to think of audio‑rate oscillators as sound‑generating circuits and low‑frequency oscillators (...

Create retro sci‑fi soundtracks with Cubase’s Retrologue 2.

Sound On Sound December 2022

Cubase Workshop: Stranger Things Synths With Retrologue 2

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Once the preserve of academic and experimental music, granular synthesis is more accessible than ever and has a lot to offer in all sorts of genres.

Is there a way to specify, to a DAW such as Pro Tools, how a note will glide to another note and over what duration of time?

We engage in some audio archaeology to discover how a pioneer of electronic music created one of her most important works.

SOS reader Ashley Pomeroy celebrates the creative power of gates.

David Bessell talks to Rob Puricelli about how he was inspired by Physical Modelling and sought to explore it further using modular synths and software. 

DJ, producer and remixer Dave Clarke meets a producer who’s been at the cutting edge of UK techno for more than 25 years.

In a new three‑part series, DJ, producer and remixer Dave Clarke meets key figures from half a century of electronic music.

Alongside the people who make them, Patrick Gleeson has probably done more than anyone else to introduce synthesizers to popular music.

Pads are the glue that holds entire genres of music together. We look at how you can improve yours.

We talk to prolific producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith about her ambient compositions and love of Buchla synths.

Everything you need to know to get your DAW talking to your modular system via your audio interface.

Any synth can be coaxed into producing vintage-sounding patches...

Join composer and electronic musician Caro C in conversation with Suzanne Ciani, a synthesizer and electronic music legend who has pushed the envelope since the 1960s.