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Moog overhauls your bottom end with the fat & punchy Mariana bass synth. It borrows from the classics and yet finds depth in its own identity.
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Outersect Modeler emerged from classical musician and coder Rob Rayle's experience at the Burning Man festival. Was it the drugs or something more transcendental?
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Rhodes has released a virtual version of the MK8. Rhodes V8 hopes to capture every detail of the hardware in the official Rhodes VSTi. And win a MK8!!
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Arturia has released the MiniFreak V as a standalone software synthesizer for anyone and everyone - no MiniFreak hardware synth required.
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What were the best software synths of 2022? From classic to innovative, here are my picks of the year's best and most interesting soft synths...
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Vanguard is back with a major overhaul for v2.0. Pulled from the ashes to once again walk among us with those floor-filling sounds and easy workflow.
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Toybox has pulled together the cream of the Toybox Blocks library to forge a rich and complex semi-modular synthesizer for Reaktor Blocks.
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Sines is a polyphonic software synth that combines stacks of sine waves with folded tones, additive and FM synthesis and puts everything on the page.
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Drag your mouse across a creepy scene of Alienize infiltration to generate tones, drones, textures and melodies fir for a Sci-Fi movie.
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Guk.ai has released Sistema, the world's first AI-powered software synth. It will generate fascinating textures and soundscapes if you have the cash.
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Noise Engineering has some new software interpolations of some fabulous hardware modules. Bundle 2 takes on Mani Iteritas, Loquelic Vereor and Imitor.
THE_INSTRUMENT reports to herald in a new era of music making with a revolutionary workflow and impossibly awesome sounds. Can it live up to the hype?
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An emulation of a classic. Cherry Audio gets to grips with the Synthex. Has Cherry Audio's Elka-X captured the lush tones of this polyphonic legend?
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For version 2.0, Aly James has reworked the OB-Xtreme softsynth for added fatness, increased distortion emulation and more OB-X and OB-Xa detail.
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Endorsed by Tom Oberheim, the SEM from GForce Software brings the authentic and classic Oberheim monosynth sound to your DAW and desktop.
BITSQ8 is a retro-infused 4-voice software synthesizer with morphable and sequenceable waveforms. The interface looks fabulous in an old CRT screen.
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Roland has announced the classically chunky and Compuphonic JUPITER-4 as an ACB modelled VST plugin or plug it out on your SYSTEM-8.
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With Lowdown Cherry Audio has taken on the foot-controlled floor-based bass synthesizer and offers you the Taurus sound with a vast choice of carpets.
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Arturia has upgraded the V Collection premium suite of virtual instruments to version 9. It pulls in 4 new instruments and updates many others.
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Minimode is another painstakingly emulated virtual take on the classic Moog Minimoog and kicks off Cherry Audio's "Bob Moog Appreciation Month".
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Synthesizers were created to emulate instruments but in a deliciously perverse twist, Polaris is what happens when a modern string orchestra imitates classic synth sounds.
UJAM Deluxe is an all-in-one VST instrument that delivers old-school synth lines and patterns for hip hop, RnB and more. Get your groove on!
Behringer's upcoming free DAW software will come with a suite of free or inexpensive plug-ins, including a UB-Xa software synth.
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Dreamsynth DS-1 is a synth to be reckoned with, taking its inspiration from the digital and analogue hybrid synthesizers of the mid-to-late 1980s.