Native Instruments Reaktor 5.5 Now Available
Native Instruments has released Reaktor 5.5 – a free update that adds a number of improvements and additions.
A software synthesizer, also sometimes known as a virtual synth, is a computer program designed to create and control a variety of sounds. The concept of the modern synthesizer was defined by Robert Moog in the mid to late 1960\’s, but software synthesizers did not become popular until the late 1990\’s.
Here are the most recent posts at Synthtopia about software synthesizers.
Native Instruments has released Reaktor 5.5 – a free update that adds a number of improvements and additions.
Free Windows Music Software: DSK Music has introduced TechSynth, a free software synthesizer for Windows. Features: 2 Osc with 5 waveforms Amp. envelope and detune control Advanced filter with ADSR and LFO Delay filter Pitch / poly control +60 patches Velocity response If you give TechSynth a try, let us know what you think of… Read More Free Windows Software Synthesizer From DSK – TechSynth
Free Music Software: The Prodigious synthesizer is a Mono/Poly instrument based in the architechture of a famous synthesiser from the past, complemented with a few more charachteristics from other well known machines. If you know what classic synth this is based on – or even if you don’t – it’s available as a free download… Read More Guess What Classic Synth Inspired This Windows Soft Synth, And You Can Have It For Free
Free Windows Music Software: Tactile Sounds has introduced Substance, a free Windows software synthesizer. Description: Substance is a virtual analog software synthesizer (VSTi) emphasizing simplicity, flexibility, and sound quality. The key factors in the design of Substance were that it should sound great, without effects, and that it should all fit on one page.
iPad Music Software: Sylo Synthesizer (App Store link) is a free iPad synth that lets you build sounds from basic waveforms, or capture them using the iPad’s built-in microphone. Sylo Synthesiser features live time-stretching technology based on granular synthesis, and a suite of filters.
Developer Luca Cuoco has released Vultus (App Store link), a $5.99 “professional audio instrument” now available for Apple iPad. According to Cuoco, each instrument feels real and “gives you an enchanted acoustic sensation.” Details below.
Free Windows Music Software: Eleogxa’s JG-3 is a free 3-oscillator synthesizer for Windows. It’s available as a free VSTi download here. For an audio demo, see the preview below.
iPhone Music Software: MendelSynth (App Store link) is a sound effect synthesizer that’s designed to be a “fun exploration and discovery tool.” MendelSynth is based on a genetic algorithm — sounds are synthesized from simulated genomes. New sounds are made from old by mutating and cross breeding their genomes. In the interface, genomes are represented… Read More New iPhone Synthesizer Lets You ‘Evolve’ Sounds
Free Windows Music Software: Athmonova2 is free virtual analog synthesizer instrument for Windows. Features Include: 1 OSC with saw/tri/pwm + 1 Subosc in different Modis, 1 Noise OSC. Multi-mode filter (LP/HP/BP/Formant). LFO with different routings. 4x ADS/r Filter/Lfo/Mod/Envelope. Effects: Overdrive/Distortion, Pingpong Delay, Stereo Widener. Athmonova2 is available now as a free VST for Windows. If… Read More Free Synth For Windows, Athmonova2
What’s on Chris Carter’s iPad? This image, via Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter, is titled simply SynthiPAD (a “work in progress”.) Think you can guess what this is going to be?