Synthesizers

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.

Arturia’s MatrixBrute combines everything the company know about synthesis into one hugely ambitious machine.

The humble TB303 has proved notoriously difficult to recreate in software, but ABL3 comes far closer than most.

The Monologue may be a cut-down version of the Minilogue, but it offers a few features its polyphonic big brother can’t match.