Kicking things off in fine style this year is Japanese manufacturer Sonicware, best known for its highly affordable synths, samplers and grooveboxes, who has just released a fantastic-looking drum ...

So the first plugin in the chain needs to be a flexible parametric EQ with frequency analyser. Raw drum hits, whether live or drum-machine-generated, can be annoyingly lacklustre, and they often ...

Whether it’s an EQ plugin to help shape the space of your mix or a brand-new synth plugin for an extra creative spark, there’s a massive selection on offer for relatively little money. We had a look ...

It’s a music-making environment that’s programmable in Python, runs on your big computer or on an ESP32-S3, and comes complete with some nice sounding synth engines, a sequencer, and a drum ...

Putting a MIDI synth into a MIDI plug is something we’ve seen a few times before. In fact, [mitxela] did the same thing a few months ago with an ATtiny85, and [Jan Ostman]’s DSP-G1 does the ...