And it was successful because of that. This was a big moment in a polyphony race that has lasted to this day – even the soft ...

We’ve used discoDSP’s free OB-Xd soft synth to approximate the sound here. It probably comes as no surpise – being originated by a guitarist rather than a keyboard player – that this triad ...

GForce Bass Station is the 1993 classic 303 clone ‘on one’, and a synth that will easily transport you back to those dark and dinghy warehouses or fields, or to a future genre where sixteen 303s are ...

RipplerX is based on two existing synths: Sai'ke Partials, an open-source modal synth, and an early version of AAS Chromaphone, one of the best-known physical modelling synth plugins. The developer ...

A vital intro to the new synth-pop movement this was the springboard for Soft Cell themselves. Backed by Phonogram, who let Some Bizarre boss Stevo Pearce call the creative shots, the duo’s ...

I still need something simple and polyphonic for strings and chords. I already wrote a simple interactive sequencer in Perl, so why not try to roll my own soft-synth? It's a lot more fun to tinker ...

In the 1970s, guitar-centric rock culture largely looked at synthesizer players as nerds who needed to get a life. The following decade, it was the revenge of the nerds. Suddenly the ball was in ...

The "waveform" knob (and CV input) switches between 16 (8-bit) waveforms. The interpolate button lets you interpolate between those waveforms, wavetable synth style. I like the harshness of no ...