Free Surge XT 1.3 adds OSC, command line, new effects, more features

Peter Kirn - December 8, 2023

Synplant 2 is as close to an alien laboratory as a synth plug-in can get

Peter Kirn - October 4, 2023

Imagine, Expressive E’s physical – synth hybrid, now has M1/M2 support and more sounds

Peter Kirn - July 20, 2023

Dazzle at the soft synths of the Commodore Amiga – including a forgotten 1985 gem

Peter Kirn - June 28, 2023

Baby Audio’s retro BA-1 synth is now on iOS, too

Peter Kirn - June 9, 2023

Inside Ableton’s Drift, the hardware-inspired synth in Live 11, with designer Marc Resibois

Peter Kirn - May 31, 2023

Roland updates Jupiter, Juno plug-ins – and finally fixes their preset UI; here’s a tour

Peter Kirn - April 26, 2023

Ableton Live 11.3 in beta: more expressive control, new Drift synth

Peter Kirn - April 4, 2023

Synplant, mutation-based synth, to get alien-level cool Genopatch update

Peter Kirn - March 27, 2023

RP-8 is a “demake” of the ReBirth RB-338 for the PICO-8 fantasy console

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2023