Thump One is a hard-hitting wavetable-kick-supersaw synth – and it’s free

What if you could take the essence of a melodic 808 kick, a wavetable synth, the thick supersaw from a JP8000, and an edgy percussive synth and mash them all together into one magical lead-kick-synth? And then what if you made that free? Well, that’s just what Toybox has done with the Thump One. It’s the deluxe banana split covered in whipped cream dessert treat of synthesizers – and you deserve it.

Multiphonics CV-2 goes waveshaping: what’s in the AAS modular’s 2.1 update

AAS’ Multiphonics CV-2 modular is great; what we want now is more modules. And AAS is delivering, with five new modules for your West Coast, waveshaping, signal sculpting and mangling pleasure. Five may not sound like a lot, but you can do a lot with a couple of these. Here’s a look at what AAS have added in CV-2 version 2.1.

Peter Kirn - August 4, 2023

From a Neapolitan hard techno master, a beautiful, nasty waveshaping distortion plug-in

If we can connect to artists through albums, especially as producers ourselves, why not through instruments and effects, too? A new release from Bari, Italy hard core/hard techno artist Carbone comes in the form of a software collaboration. And the results are suitably grimy and fantastic.

Peter Kirn - March 1, 2023

Bastl adds extra toppings to Pizza wave-shaping, FM oscillator

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2022

Bastl’s delicious Pizza: waveshaping meets FM for a tasty modular oscillator

Peter Kirn - May 11, 2022

Sinevibes Corrosion v2 is like 10 distortion pedals inside your KORG synth – made in Ukraine

Peter Kirn - April 28, 2022

Freequel plugins and Reason RE – distortion, synths from Noise Engineeering for free

Peter Kirn - February 4, 2022

Free plug-ins: iZotope Trash 2 is free for a limited time for your distortion and mangling needs

Peter Kirn - December 28, 2021

ID700 for iPad reboots the 1987 Buchla 700 – FM, waveshaping, and polyphony (Hands on)

Peter Kirn - April 13, 2021

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