Software Synthesizers & Samplers

There’s an early review of Berna – the virtual studio app that recreates a 50’s electronic music lab – at Waveformless.
They say there’s a lot to like in Berna:
The flexibility of the matrix and the vast array of unusual sound manipulators will be a breath of fresh air to those burned out on the virtual [...]

Free Music Software: Artifake Labs have released the RedTron_400, a software version of the Mellotron M400.

This video, via Tom Cosm, is the first of a series of three tutorial videos on track construction in Ableton Live.
It’s designed to teach you ways you can approach writing a track, from start to finish. It covers topics such as Sound Design, Building Loops and Section Construction, Arrangements and Progressions, and Mixing.
Explains Cosm:
In this [...]

Recreating the clockwork orange theme sound was uploaded by: seeyouintheeighties
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Lucas Xie has released ganK the Synthesizer, a free synthesizer instrument for Windows.
ganK the Synthesizer is a free soft synth developed by Lucas. It is presented in both VSTi format and Windows standalone application. ganK is an additive/substractive synth with 3 oscillators , a moog filter, a lfo, effects like an 8-band eq and a [...]

Berna Vintage Electronic Studio – a Mac OS X software recreation of the classical electronic music studio – is now available for 10.69€ as a digital download. A demo version is available.
If you’ve used Berna, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Audio Damage’s Chris Randall joined the iPhone Cock Fest today, introducing Plinkton (App Store link), a generative ambient music app, released under the Naughty Panther moniker.
Naughty Panther describes Plinkton as an application that lets you “create a rhythmic groove over a bed of smooth ambiance.”
Plinkton is less Kenny G, though, and more ambient Pong.
The app [...]

Ableton has announced Ableton Live Intro – their new entry-level version of Ableton Live.
Live Intro has the same basic features as Ableton Live at a lower price and comes with 7 GB of Sampled Instruments, Drum Loops, Beats and Breaks, 200 Audio and MIDI Racks and Effects and 500 Instruments and Drum Kits from the [...]

Here’s an example of free music software that doesn’t play it safe.
_02.circles is a Windows software synthesizer that features a user interface inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract painting Einige Kreise:
This plugin opens an intuitive access to sound construction, modification, modulation, live performance tweaking, etc. being an interactive painting and thus a form of art by [...]

Free Music Software: The Venom VB-303 is a pattern-based acid bassline synthesizer for Windows inspired by the Roland TB-303.
Venom VB-303 is actively under development, but is still in beta.
Download links are available at the KVR forum.