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Hands On With Pigments – Arturia’s First Original Soft-Synth
After almost 20-years of classic synthesiser emulations, Arturia just announced their first entirely original soft-synth - a Wavetable soft synth called Pigments. 2018 might well go down as the year of wavetable synths; Ableton gave us their take in Live 10 Suite, NI added a wavetable module
The Art of Synthesis: Melbourne Synth Festival 2018
If you are into LFO's, High Pass Filters, VCO's, DCO's, Envelopes, DSP, Aftertouch, ADSR's, CV's, MIDI, Arpeggiators or simply just keys, then this event will certainly trigger your Multi-Timbral. As part of Melbourne Music Week, Australian Musician, MESS and PBS 106.7 the inaugural Melbourne Synth Festival
The Art of Synthesis According to Arturia
At their core, analog synthesisers are potentially unexciting and lifeless boxes of electronic components. It’s one thing to tune an oscillator to produce a musically relevant pitch, but constructing an inspiring, playable musical instrument is another discipline entirely. In our ‘Art of Synthesis’ series, we examine
5 Drum Machines That’ll Help You Get Weird
Whether it’s a pounding synthesised kick or randomly generated glitch patterns, sometimes percussion that’s a little unusual and experimental can really make a track. The bread and butter sounds of classic drum machines are great and all, but with some of the powerful machines on
Soundcraft Notepad 12FX-More Than an Analogue Mixer
We were recently able to get our hands on the Soundcraft Notepad 12FX, the largest in the Notepad family of compact analogue mixers. Yeah, cool story bro. We know right? But when we teamed up with DJ extraordinaire Leroy to lay down some dubby vibes,
Synths on a Budget: Part 1 – Keyboards
When it comes to synthesisers, our concept of affordability has changed dramatically over the past few years. Arturia broke new ground in 2012 with the original Minibrute, offering a huge sounding analog mono-synth for under $1000 AUD. A few years later Korg exceeded expectations by
Arturia Announce New Drumbrute Impact Drum Machine
Arturia have just announced the release of its latest "Brute" the DrumBrute Impact, which they describe as an exciting new hardware drum machine that combines raw, energetic sounds, advanced sequencing, and fast, fun workflow into an addictive little powerhouse you won’t want to put down. Here's
ARTURIA MiniBrute 2 & 2S – Analogue Synthesisers
Product Review: We’ve come to expect big things from this forward-thinking French company’s small packages and Arturia’s MiniBrute 2 and 2S are no exception. You instantly notice the larger size of the MiniBrute 2 thanks to the sprawling panel of knobs, faders and switches and luscious wooden