This week on MusicRadar, we're stacking up hardware synths against their software counterparts as part of the Great Synth Showdown. In our third round, the modern-day classic Oberheim OB-X8 faces off ...

One by one, most software has succumbed to the cloud; Designers have Adobe, gamers have Steam, programmers have GitHub and now musicians have Splice. The company likes to call their service a rental, ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: It's likely that we're all guilty of periodically shunning our existing repository of plugins and VIs, and splash out on a shiny new synth, hoping it’ll provide us with a fresh, ...

The Roland Cloud is looking brighter with their latest addition announced today, a series of Model Expansions beginning with the JX-8P Model Expansion. Upcoming releases will include SH-101, JUNO-106, ...

When Native Instruments first released the virtual synth Massive in 2007, it quickly took the music production world by storm. Producers loved the three oscillator wavetable synth plugin -- with its ...

Music machinery giant Korg has announced the upcoming release of a program that will turn the portable Nintendo 3DS platform into a tiny, awesome synthesizer. The DSN-12 software will allow users to ...

The second major update to Logic Pro X in 2015 adds the well-known Alchemy synth and the ability to publish directly to Apple Music Connect. Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming Dan ...

[Ivan Franco] sent us this great synthesizer project that he’s working on. Or maybe it’s more like a synthesizer meta-project: a synthesizer construction set. You see, what Pryth has is a Raspberry Pi ...

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