Synthesizers

Newcomers GS Music are kicking things off in style with an ambitious polysynth.

Think you know what analogue synthesis sounds like? Pittsburgh’s Taiga might change that...

Sound Particles have placed 3D audio at the heart of their new soft synth.

Baby Audio’s first soft synth is inspired by the baby of the Yamaha CS range, the small but immediate CS‑01.

We profile Dutch designer Matthijs Munnik of Cosmotronic.

Make Noise need almost no introduction. Among the prime movers in the Eurorack explosion, former Moog employee Tony Rolando...

Coral is an eight‑voice, eight‑part, 10‑sound‑engine synthesizer in a 14HP module.

Clark reveals how he got signed to Warp Records, his recording and production workflow, and how Thom Yorke ended up as a guest vocalist on his latest album, Sus Dog.

Sofia is an oscillator that synthesizes vocal‑like formants without filtering, achieved by superimposing decaying sinusoidal tones onto each individual cycle of a fundamental base waveform.

There’s a running gag in modular circles about how someone has just completed their system. But in a few days, maybe a week, other modules will start popping up out of drawers and things will change.

Cosmix Pro is an eight‑channel Eurorack mixer offering a broad range of routing possibilities, with generous amounts of visual clarity and several functions usually reserved for much larger mixers.

Paul White takes us on a sonic journey as he explores the endless possibilities of sound design using a guitar as your sound source.

FabFilter go back to their roots with a brand‑new version of their Twin soft synth.

Grammy-winning Samuel Dixon picks his favourite sound from the records he’s made, focusing on Australian singer‑songwriter Meg Washington’s track ‘Switches’.

There’s a lot to like about MiMU’s unusually gelatinous take on granular synthesis.

Wobbler2 adds a drum synthesizer to the Wobbler LFO module that was released in 2018.

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

Disrupter is an experimental, performance‑driven, 303‑style sequencer with innovative randomisation features that you can still control when needed.

Roland’s SH‑4d is an ambitious amalgam of synth and sequencer in a battery‑powered box.

Created on sequencers, synths and drum machines in a basement bunker beneath Somerset House, London, LoneLady talks to Caro C about the making of her third studio album Former Things.

Musician, sound designer, educator and all‑round electronic sound sorceress, Lisa Bella Donna has built a reputation for herself as one of the most eminent synthesists anywhere.