Arturia V Collection 8 – Review
Is bigger better? Arturia's hugely popular suite gets more instruments & useful updates but is it still great value for money? At the tail end of 2020, a year that shall live in all of our memories as one of great anguish, strife or some similarly negative point of view, Arturia shone a light of some hope ...
Carol of the Doorbells
Seven years ago, I put together a little 'Thank You' video to pay my respects to the numerous people who had helped me that year on keeping this blog going. https://youtu.be/xjlPiv0opN8 I've wanted to follow that up in some way ever since but never got around to it. But last week I had a little idea to ...
Arturia Chorus JUN-6
Arturia extract the famous, noisy chorus effect from their JUN-6 V instrument and gift it to the world for free (until Dec. 29th, that is!) https://youtu.be/-CUhdtSjRys Chorus JUN-6 is modeled after the iconic analog stereo effect found in the Roland Juno series of analog polysynths from the ‘80s - ...
MODAL Electronics COBALT8 – Review
Bristol-based synth wizards build on the platform that delivered the ARGON8 and give us a new twist on virtual analogue synthesis... It's been a busy year for MODAL Electronics. Originally known for high-end, DSP-heavy hybrid or analogue "uber" synths, such as the 002 and 008, 2020 has seen MODAL cleverly ...
Arturia V Collection 8
Arturia's 8th iteration of their sumptuous plug in instrument suite boasts four new additions, 2 upgrades, a new Analog Lab and PatchWorks It all started here, so say Arturia, French purveyors of what is, arguably, the biggest and, some say, best collection of software instruments available in a single ...
Korg opsix – Altered FM Synthesizer
This year's NAMM tease finally launches, claiming to deliver a more accessible form of FM. But it seems to have walked through Dr. Frink's Shrink Ray... As a bit of an FM fan, when I saw the opsix on display at NAMM in January (way back when we could mingle and NAMMthrax was the worst bug you could pick ...
