Squiggy’s WaveTracker: open-source tracker – and other free tools

WaveTracker is a fun, free tracker for Windows that features wavetable editing, more than 100 instrument macros, and visualization for a glitchy good time. And that brings up the many other free trackers you might try out these days…

Waldorf has recreated the Microwave 1 wavetable synth in software

1989’s Waldorf Microwave is about to hit your DAW. And this isn’t just another plug-in emulation of some vintage gear. Waldorf has gone to great lengths to reproduce both the analog and digital sides of the original – and even built software that can act as an editor if you do have the original hardware.

Peter Kirn - August 22, 2024

Hands on: Cong Burn’s Stacks plug-in and iOS app synths, loops, and layers

From the creator of Strokes, Stacks is a unique 4-voice wavetable morphing polysynth combined with a 4-track granular looper. But that description doesn’t really do it justice: modeling and digital grunge combine to make a raunchy instrument that behaves like an experimental studio.

Peter Kirn - July 12, 2024

Baby Audio Humanoid review: hard tuning, vocal transformer, wavetables

Peter Kirn - July 1, 2024

Xaoc Devices Berlin: new compact VCO with Leibniz Binary interfacing

Peter Kirn - May 13, 2024

Arturia MiniFreak 2.0: wavetables, new effects, more in hardware and plugin

Peter Kirn - December 12, 2023

Minimal’s Current is a granular-wavetable synth with tons of FX and extras

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2023

Roland unveils GAIA 2 hybrid polysynth with Model Expansion support

Peter Kirn - September 28, 2023

3rd Wave, wavetable synth beast, does MPE and is now in desktop form

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2023

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