Smooth Operator is a brilliant new spectral sound sculpting plug-in from Baby Audio

Peter Kirn - April 29, 2021

Roland SYSTEM-8 synth is free to try in April – here’s why it’s a sound designer’s friend

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2021

Miller Puckette, creator of Max and Pd, on how he’s patching his way to remote collaboration

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2021

Sega Genesis-ify all your sounds with this free decimator for any platform and OS

Peter Kirn - March 15, 2021

Polymode is Cherry’s new soft synth inspired by the Polymoog, for $29

Peter Kirn - February 1, 2021

Deep in Serum: six sound tricks to explore just by double-clicking, with maestro Francis Preve

Francis Preve - January 15, 2021

Pipa is a unique vocal synth that’s supremely fun to play [Hands-on]

Peter Kirn - January 5, 2021

Freebie watch: Diablo Lite is built to make drums punch, slap, and hit harder

Peter Kirn - January 4, 2021

LIRA-8 reimagines the LYRA-8 organismic drone synth in Pd, VST, AU free – donationware

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2020

Texture is a free, rich granular reverb plug-in with mid/side for Mac, Windows

Peter Kirn - December 25, 2020