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New in Arturia Pigments 4 soft synth: UI, tuning, modulation, effects, filters, engines, sounds
Arturia is bringing improvements to every conceivable area of their flagship soft synth. Pigments started off demonstrating Arturia could do more than emulate the past; now it’s starting to look like the polysynth to beat.
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Traveler takes you on an hour-long Korg retrospective full of synth sounds
Alex Ball has a new documentary out covering 60 years of Korg instruments – complete with loads of synth demos so you’re getting sounds, not just looking at gear pics. I missed this last week when of course Synthtopia was on top of it – hat tip! Even the YouTube algorithm was confused why I […]
Peter Kirn - October 12, 2022
Gear Music tech Tech
Arturia V-Collection 9, feature by feature: a dreamy, futuristic update, new and old
Arturia’s V-Collection 9 is more than just another “add some more instruments, update a few things” V-Collection refresh. This one goes somewhere new and dreamy – both with new instruments that aren’t remakes of old stuff, and some of the biggest advancements coming in the form of rebuilds for some of your favorites.
Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters
Peter Kirn - September 21, 2021
DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Tech
Return of full-sized KORG MS-20, as retro trend continues
Peter Kirn - January 14, 2020
Gear Music tech Stories Tech
Behringer go nuts, plan to clone every historic synth, drum machine
Peter Kirn - December 13, 2017
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Stories Tech
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