I routinely state that the Arturia MicroFreak is one of my favorite budget synths. But honestly, I’m doing it a disservice. I think the MicroFreak is one of the best synths out there at any price.

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 ...

A granular synth like nothing else around. It’s niche, but for creating ambient textures and drones, there’s endless fun to be had. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and ...

Best known for its expressive controller gloves, Mimu is now stepping away from musical wearables for a moment to release Jellyfish, a “granular dream weaver” plugin. So what does that actually mean?

Ever since they arrived in popular music in the ’70s, synths have always seemed new and otherworldly. Bristling with strange knobs and controls and emitting weird electronic noises, many synths might ...

Synthesizing sounds from scratch is all well and good, you just use a bit of maths. However, the latest build from [Daisy] eschews such boring concepts as additive or subtractive synthesis, instead ...

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Granular synthesis was first suggested as a computer music technique for producing complex sounds by Iannis Xenakis (1971) and Curtis Roads (1978) and is based on the production of a high density of ...