In celebration of Thriller's 40th birthday, we take you on a guided tour of the album's classic synths and show you how to reproduce their sound with modern software When you purchase through links on ...

The Strings section ranges from a simple square-wave Violin, through Viola, Cello, Brass and Organ, and finally into a range of shimmering Choir sounds. It also features an Ensemble effect with String ...

Arturia has never been known for its recreations of acoustic instruments (though, there are decent pianos included as part of its V Collection). And frankly, that’s probably not going to change after ...

One of the things that may have held back your sound design aspirations is just how complex soft synths can look. Sometimes this is done deliberately – developers want their creations to look ...

Roland has outed its latest synth, though you won't find a keyboard attached. The Roland GR-55 is a guitar synthesizer, coupling PCM synthesis with digital instrument modeling to allow guitarists to ...

For his final project in [Bruce Land]’s microcontroller design class, [Mark] set out to make a decently-sized synth that sounds good. We think you’ll agree that he succeeded in spades. Don’t let those ...