Master your Roland TR-8S drum machine settings with a plug-in editor

Roland’s TR-8S added loads of parameters for shaping drum kits and effects. Now you can get at all of those without diving through menus with this VST/AU plug-in – and keep your drum machine settings stored with your project.

Cherry Audio Voltage Modular: a full synth platform, open to developers

Hey, hardware modular – the computer is back. Cherry Audio’s Voltage Modular is another software modular platform. Its angle: be better for users — and now, easier and more open to developers, with a new free tool.

Peter Kirn - December 13, 2018

Noir is part bass, part drum synth – a must-have iOS drum machine

Dark, crunchy, synthetic sounds, grooves that morph somewhere in the shadows between bass line and percussion pattern – Ruismaker Noir is exactly the sort of drum machine you’d want with you at all times. And as it’s an iOS app, you can take it with you.

Peter Kirn - November 12, 2018

Powerful SURGE synth for Mac and Windows is now free

Peter Kirn - September 26, 2018

Inside Cypher2, and what could be a more expressive future for synths

Peter Kirn - September 3, 2018

Luminance adds shimmery reverb to your sound – and it’s a runaway hit

Peter Kirn - August 17, 2018

A soft synth that’s made to be played with futuristic, expressive control

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2018

Free download: amps and cellos under your fingertips in the new LABS

Peter Kirn - August 2, 2018

The strange, cartridge-powered speech of TI Touch & Tell

Peter Kirn - July 11, 2018

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