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Fantastic (free) plugins and how to use them: Newfangled Audio Pendulate
This free mono synth plugin is creative, chaotic and fun to use. It’s time to go West (Coast)
Roland is giving away its software 303 free – but be quick, there’s only 3,030 up for grabs
Download the official Roland Cloud recreation of the synth that invented acid house
They set the boyband template, but The Monkees also introduced the world to the synth
People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players
Seiki Kato, president of Korg and the inspiration behind 1988's M1 smash has died, aged 67
As eldest son of Ksutomu Kato, Korg’s founder, Seiki joined at the company in 1980 and worked his way to the top
Why there’s nothing wrong with collecting gear as a hobby - even if you don’t use it
Gatekeepers will tell you to sell your synths if you’re not using them “enough” - but isn’t your personal relationship with them sufficient reason to keep them around?
Is Eternal Engine's Mars the world's first polyphonic vacuum tube synth?
Vintage meets contemporary in this DAW-controllable hybrid synth that blends digital oscillators with a tube-based audio path
“It’s a mighty emulation of an emulation of an emulation”: GForce Novation Bass Station review
Fancy some 16-voice 303 acid lines? Of course you do
There’s a lot we love about Korg’s latest DIY synth – but it has one significant problem
Watch our video review and demo of Korg’s budget-friendly, build-it-yourself Nu:Tekt NTS-1 mkII
“I want to shout from a mountain top about this incredible technology”: Is Dreamtronic's Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro really the first artificial vocalist to finally nail the fake factor?
Its makers claim to have reached “the holy grail of vocal synthesis” with MIDI/text singers that are indistinguishable from the real thing
