Heavy modulation of oscillator pitch or filter cutoff can sound a little over-the-top if applied to the entire duration of a sound. Many synths allow a ‘fade in’ to be applied to modulation routings ...

Manipulating the pitch of synth drums, particularly toms, can throw up all sorts of interesting sounds. Route velocity to pitch or select alternative (non-chromatic) tuning scales. Sometimes you’ll ...

Korg has announced the prologue, its new flagship analog synthesizer that comes with full-sized keys and will be available in two models: the 16-voice 61-key prologue-16, and the eight-voice 49-key ...

Ask any chiptune artist and they’ll tell you: Music just sounds better when it’s piped straight out of the headphone jack of a gaming device and into a cranked PA system. Classic Game Boys may be the ...

The second major update to Logic Pro X in 2015 adds the well-known Alchemy synth and the ability to publish directly to Apple Music Connect. Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming Dan ...