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The ultimate guide to Arturia Pigments 4
By Leo Maymind published
Leo Maymind delves deep into the expansive world of Arturia’s latest Pigments upgrade

Here’s how you can download IK Multimedia’s J-60, a Roland Juno-60 synth emulation, for free
By Ben Rogerson published
It retails for $50, but you can currently have it for nothing if you know where to look

The Great Synth Showdown: Which is the best hardware polysynth in 2023?
By Si Truss published
We pit vintage against contemporary, analogue against digital and experimental against conventional in our quest to find the best contemporary polysynth

Superbooth 23: Reason’s ‘organic’ Objekt synth promises sounds that you can’t create anywhere else
By Ben Rogerson published
Could this be the instrument that makes you fall in love with physical modelling?

Hardware synths vs software synths: which is right for you?
By Andy Jones last updated
Should you go down the hard or soft synth route? We compare the two for price, practicality, sounds, investment and more

NAMM 2023: Sound Particles' 'first ever' 3D synth is a "game changer", according to Jean-Michel Jarre
By Andy Jones published
The SkyDust 3D synth uses spatial audio to modulate sounds in space and time

Tracktion Dawesome Kult
By Andy Jones published
With ‘Strange Attractor’ oscillators – 30 of them – plus easy FM and AM synthesis, Kult might well be the synth of the year. And it’s only March

Fantastic (free) synths and how to use them: Xenos
By "OSC" Steve published
Hold on to your oscillators as we journey into the realms of stochastic synthesis, randomized tuning and Iannis Xenakis
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