Tag: software synthesizer

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.

Free Software Synthesizer Offers 4 Billion Presets & Makes Orgasm Noises

Oh My God! Yes! Yes! Image Line has released a new free software synthesizer, AutoGun, that promises to let you search 4,294,967,296 presets for their acoustic potential. Based on the official screenshot, it also offers a preset that “sounds like an orgasm.” Who knows? There might be multiple orgasms buried in those 4,294,967,296 presets. Unfortunately,… Read More Free Software Synthesizer Offers 4 Billion Presets & Makes Orgasm Noises

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Free Windows Guitar Synth

Spicy Guitar is a free real-time acoustic guitar synthesis app for windows. The Spicy Guitar project is the product of one year’s work by two students at the Ecole Centrale Paris: “We wanted to combine our passion for music, specifically the guitar, with our experience in the sciences.” Thanks to an original idea, we have… Read More Free Windows Guitar Synth

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Granular Synthesis On Your iPhone, For 1 American Dollar

This is a demo of Curtis (App Store link), a $1 granular synthesizer application for the iPhone. Description: Granular synthesis works by combining many tiny grains of sound from an existing recording, generally creating new sounds with the textural properties of the recording. Granular synthesis allows you to regenerate the recording, playing it forward or… Read More Granular Synthesis On Your iPhone, For 1 American Dollar

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