The Sound Board

I think you can go up to 1977, more specifically the strange “Love You” album (bizarrely, a favourite of both Michael Stipe and Patti Smith, the latter who, until that album, had never any interest in, let alone appreciation for The Beach Boys), to hear the last small sparks of Brian Wilson’s remar ...

Sounds very useful and there is a small void in my plug-in toolbox where something like Room360 would certainly fit, but when I tried to demo it (as an AU in Logic) I ran into all sorts of problems, so serious that restarting Logic wasn’t enough to make them go away; I had to restart my Mac. Not a g ...

Nice, little introduction to, and history of the Rhodes piano:



and a series of Rhodes-loving musician profiles here.

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Two new (well: updated) Rhodes emulations: (1) AAS Lounge Lizard finally moves from v4 to v5 (2) GSi reworked their existing Rhodes hybrid synthesis model into Magic Tines . The new Lizard (which does both tines and reeds electric pianos) is introduced at $149 (regular price will be $199) but owners ...

I bit.

Needs an awful lot of HD space, doesn’t it? Couldn’t even install just the strings (around 415 gig) on an HD that has 700 gig free space. (Probably the amount of free space required needs to be at least twice the size of the download.)

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One of my favourite soft synths.
But it has to be added: when it comes to (soft-)synths, I'm a pathetically simple and terribly old-fashioned individual.

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I'm still of much the same opinion as I was three years ago (see my post above). In fact, last year, when cleaning up my plug-ins folder, I uninstalled MODO Bass 2 — MODO 1 giving me everything I expect from this software — and it was only after reading your post, yuroyuro — a very warm welcome, by t ...

The 15 disc-set Morricone - The Complete Edition (*) gives a pretty good idea of the unique width and depth of Morricone’s genius. It goes from vulgar kitch — and I use that description in the most positive and even deeply admiring sense — through bizarre electro-acoustic sonic experiments, ligh ...

apQualizer has been updated to v 2.7.5. To get a taste of what a powerful piece of software this is — so much more than just an EQ — watch the video below which demonstrates the new LFO-features:



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MD3Sign has a preset pack for Saturn 2 that contains 111 presets for mixing and mastering. I have no idea if this pack contains anything worth purchasing and the text on the product page is so over the top — “We successfully delivered something that world never experienced before.” — that it dissuad ...

Co-developed with Slate + Ash, Orchestral Tools have released MIRRORS , a Kontakt-library that "explores both experimental analog synthesis and traditional orchestral sampling. The collection originated from synthesized source material from our Bristol-based collaborators—glitched textures, ...

My first two synths, in my TASCAM Portastudio days (my late teens - early twenties), were a Roland JX-3P and an SH-101. Fairly sure that the sonic palette of the Model82 can be more or less provided by plenty of other softsynths, but there's something about the utter simplicity of an SH-101, real or ...

(...) Is there a band or prominent song that featured it back in the day? Where to begin? And where to end? The SH-101 — famously not a commercial success at first for Roland, even considered a complete failure — was picked up by the dance producers of the late 80's an quickly became pretty much omn ...

https://cdn.softube.com/storage/A99C9645A11DBF41125D9A954F6057B2B6143235642E6B02F7DDA68AB6629B06/e982000ff1af4b43a0a7b40cf094bf33/png/media/39613f0e74604c6baee742b9453f9b69/model-82-sequencing-mono-synth-product-image.png Softube's Model 82 , a fine recreation of the Roland SH-101 (named by Fact ...

No, not yet.

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If you’re into sound design or like (or require) unusual sounds to work with, or if you’re interested in very innovative and creative synth development, you must have a look at the new Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer , a commercial beta of which is currently available (for $70 instead of $140, which w ...

https://mosaicdsp.com/assets/Box_Screenshot-42d94b0c37aa3b4ef7004c0a7c25fc8d1708c6684f2f87e13490ce1927956bc6.png Somewhat unusual in concept, still a bit rough around its version 1 edges, but very much worth giving it a try, in my opinion: MosaicDSP’s Channel Strip 1 (the maiden release from a new o ...

https://img.audiofanzine.com/img/fr/news/cover/76603.png?fm=webp&w=704&h=396&fit=fill&s=2990e9d14e9dbad0c928788ee401bbd7 New from ADPTR: Utopia , a spectral reverb that allows you to do all sorts of things to reverberation that no other reverb software offers and for which you'd need a handful of ...

Erik wrote: ↑Apr 21, 2025 3:34 pm Have you been using any of them, Piet ?

Yes, like Tanuj: all the time. Well, almost all the time.

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Another nice little instrument from Somerville: the Prototype Gentle Vibes. ('Prototype' is the name of their donationware series.) It's not a full-blown vibraphone, but a smaller instrument for marching bands. Recorded with three different mallets. Somerville suggests $5 as a donation. Which is ...

In the days before it was possible to record music and then distribute it on vinyl or digitally, in short: before the 20th century and the arrival of mass media, many pieces of music — symphonies and (popular tunes from) operas especially — were often transcribed for piano and/or small ensembles so t ...

AudioDeluxe currently has a good price on Tokyo Dawn's Special Filters bundle ($39 instead of $80). If you wonder what the appeal or use is of these filters and what they offer that you can't already do with a good EQ, I strongly suggest watching Dan Worrall's excellent introduction video (below ...

Demoed it for a couple of days last week. Not going to buy it. It does a few nice things — and I'm sure, or at least: I hope, that it does a lot more nice things when you send living audio through it instead of samples — but unless you explore the more extreme settings, at which point you get that al ...

The Windows version of Altiverb 8 has been released. This new Altiverb adds amongst others a new scalable UI, VST3, and support for Dolby Atmos, including surround pan following reverb clouds. If you purchased Altiverb after December 2022 you already have your Altiverb 8 license or you can get it by ...

https://audiodeluxe.com/cdn/shop/files/recycle-screenshot-1000px-cropped.6216a4cd2b0b_5000x.webp?v=1722573626 ReCycle (and the REX-format ) may no longer be as big as they used to be — there was a time, late 90's - early 2000's, when ReCycle fully deserved its epitheta 'ground-breaking' and 'game-c ...