Software samplers are a vital component in today's studio environment. Whether you're laying down a piano track, composing a film soundtrack, editing...
In the simpler early days of electronic music, many composers created their own circuits, partly out of necessity and partly because they had a specific...
Turbo VL As a MIDI wind player, I've always loved the Yamaha VL-series synths for their highly expressive sounds that can be exquisitely shaped with breath...
Native Instruments Kontakt 3 is packed with options and has a user interface to match. Clicking a button often opens up a whole new panel studded with more buttons, sliders, knobs, graphic displays, or other widgets. ...
Scarbee's first bass product, J-Slap'n Fingered (JSF), evolved over several versions to become one of the most advanced virtual basses around. Its extensive...
The secret of sampling's longevity is not just how realistically it can reproduce instruments such as drums and piano, but also that any sound you can...
Today's music-software offerings include a spate of additive synthesizers. Image Line has joined the fray by releasing Morphine ($159, download only),...
KeyToSound's Nexsyn ($339) is a software synth that combines sample playback with traditional synthesis techniques. It supports AU, VST, and RTAS on the...
Morphine is a hybrid of additive and subtractive techniques along with resynthesis tools. It offers spectral models for emulating acoustic instruments and can serve as a springboard for creating fresh new sounds out of familiar harmonic content. Morphine relies on four Generators (roughly equivalent to oscillators) to play spectral models from its own supply or from user-supplied samples.
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