Posted on 30/11/2017

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NI Reaktor: A complete audio toolkit

The audio plug-in software framework "Reaktor" by Native Instruments is one of the most flexible single units you can have in your virtual rack. Within Reaktor there's an impressive array of preconstructed "ensembles" like synthesizers, samplers, rhytm units, sequencers, pattern generators, effects units, utilities and much more. And on the vivid Reaktor community you can [...]

Posted on 24/05/2016

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Sonic Academy ANA Synthesizer

ANA is definitely a well-equppped subtractive synth, capable of producing all standard virtual analog flavours. Plenty of everything, and a large modulation matrix caters for some very complex possibilities. I acquired it mostly because of the randomizing feature, which is very much in line with my current generative music experiments. And ANA does deliver some wildly unpredictable […]

Posted on 01/08/1995

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Digidesign Turbosynth

Hardware dominance. In the start 1990s the world of sampling was dominated by hardware samplers from Akai, E-mu, Roland, Sequential and Ensoniq and a few more. Each hardware sampler had a set of basic digital processing tools available for the loaded samples. Going virtual But with the appearance of the Sound Designer II audio editor from Digidesign, […]