Arturia’s PolyBrute flagship just got a massive 3.0 firmware update

Arturia has a big update for their flagship polysynth, the PolyBrute. V3 adds 7 types of distortion, expanded effects routing and tuning, a new stereo layer mode, and more. Also, I’m sorry, you’ll again be hit with the Arturia drinking game – it’s another Arturia news item that mentions “Germanium.” (Maybe we should play a […]

Roland V-Synth at 20: discover its history and sonic secrets in this video

Roland’s epic V-Synth – one of the releases that defined 21st Century Roland – is now twenty years old. Paulee Alex Bow is here to take us on their Magical Synth Adventure in a gripping video. It might even win over V-Synth naysayers, and it’ll certainly please fans and bring the rest of us up to speed.

Peter Kirn - August 21, 2023

Here’s a big, sortable list of popular recent synths and their features

Making shopping notes for your next synth purchase? Just like to stay on top of everything that’s come out and what it can do? Sébastien Noël writes to let us know they made a massive, sortable list of major releases of the twenty-teens and twenty-twenties.

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2023

MycroG’s tiny 3D printed versions of keyboards and organs, stunningly realistic

Peter Kirn - April 19, 2023

ASM Hydrasynth 2.0: bit reducer, per-voice modulation, quantized LFO and ENV, more

Peter Kirn - March 21, 2023

Nonlinear Labs’ C15, the human-centered keyboard instrument, expands sound design features

Peter Kirn - February 1, 2023

Teenage Engineering OP-1 field now has a vocoder, on top of velocity sensitivity update

Peter Kirn - January 12, 2023

ReBoard transforms melodic playing in Ableton Live with Samchillian layout

Peter Kirn - January 9, 2023

Expressive E’s Osmose gestural keyboard instrument arrives, with artist backing

Peter Kirn - January 5, 2023

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