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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.
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Free custom presets for Baby Audio’s Smooth Operator Pro
Baby Audio’s Smooth Operator Pro delivers powerful ways of dynamically sculpting sound and applying spectral processing. To round out the offering, here are some CDM-exclusive presets. You can try them out alongside the factory presets in their free trial.
Peter Kirn - April 29, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Free Soundtoys PhaseMistress: here’s a complete tour and extra presets
Soundtoys has made their exceptional phaser plug-in PhaseMistress free for a limited time. Here’s how to get it, plus some CDM-exclusive presets and a crash-course tour.
Peter Kirn - November 1, 2024
Deals Music tech Software Tech
Sonic Bloom has a pack of presets for the new Ableton Live Drift synth
Peter Kirn - July 17, 2023
Music tech Software Tech
Get free presets and tutorials each month from veteran sound designer Tom Wolfe
Peter Kirn - July 5, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
Free presets, free filter, TAL-Filter-2 mean a new trance-y Age of Love for us all
Peter Kirn - May 24, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
Focus your distracted mind with Tonepaper – music, plus Serum and Ableton Live sound pack
Peter Kirn - February 11, 2021
Music Music tech Software Tech
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