Your iPad and iPhone just became a portal to endless DX7 sounds

You may think you know the Yamaha DX7 from those couple of presets that dominated the 80s. But Oliver Greschke’s Elastic OSC for iPhone and iPad is a reminder of just how much potential Yamaha’s breakthrough FM synth can offer. And now Elastic OSC app can easily import those sounds, with a bunch of unique presets to get you started — plus a link to a cool generative tool that works with anything.

GForce Halogen FM makes playing with frequencies fun all over again – review

Quick: when was the last time when you just messed with a synthesizer knobs and played with waveforms for the sheer joy of it? The new soft synth from GForce dumps all the algorithms and black-box elements of FM in favor of the visceral pleasure of messing around with sound. It’s not another historical emulation. It’s an FM playground.

Peter Kirn - June 24, 2025

Noise Engineering Legio grows again; Sinc Legio is Bride of Sinc Iter

Noise Engineering continues to revive beloved and now-unavailable modules from their back catalog, thanks to their updateable firmware platforms. But Sinc Legio is more like a sequel, with internal modulation, new algorithms, and stereo chorus atop the original’s formula of phase modulation, hard sync, and wavefolding.

Peter Kirn - March 1, 2024

Noise Engineering has a new oscillator, Alia – and it’s bringing back old faves

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2023

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

Peter Kirn - February 1, 2023

NI Massive X synth sees first features, interface revealed

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2019

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