Sonicware is back with another quirky standalone synthesizer in its fairly crowded Liven line. The Liven Texture Lab was unveiled at the SuperBooth expo in Berlin and features a near-identical layout ...

Synthesizing sounds from scratch is all well and good, you just use a bit of maths. However, the latest build from [Daisy] eschews such boring concepts as additive or subtractive synthesis, instead ...

Arturia has been on a bit of a roll over these last few years. The company has always made top notch MIDI controllers and soft synths. But in 2020 it announced the KeyStep Pro and PolyBrute — ...

Granular processing has evolved from an esoteric experimental trick into one of the most versatile tools at the disposal of contemporary audio professionals. Its core idea—to slice sound into ...

Granular synthesis, a cornerstone of contemporary sonic manipulation, originates from the mid‑twentieth‑century quest to push the limits of what could be perceived as “audio.” Rather than treating a ...