PLUGIN WEEK 2025: When surveying today's synthesis landscape, to say that we’re spoiled for choice would be a serious understatement. On the hardware front it's like the 1970s all over again, with ...

You might think that the talents of the legendary synth pioneers – Bob Moog, Tom Oberheim, Dave Smith, Wolfgang Palm, and many others – lay in their deep knowledge of electronics and sound synthesis.

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: Synths are some of the most powerful tools available to sound designers, and there's never been a broader range of wildly inventive software-based tools available to the modern ...

Neural DSP is best known for its high-quality amp models, whether that’s its $1,850 Quad Cortex floor modeler or plugins for your DAW. Its latest offering is the €139 (roughly $142) Archetype: Rabea ...

There's still no replacement for having good taste and finely attuned ears — but when it comes to the tools of production, ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: With the physical constraints of hardware cost, weight, size and how much power they use removed, it's safe to say that today's modern synth plugin designers have got it easy ...

We pit five of today's most powerful, flexible and versatile synth plugins against each other to find out who comes out on top in 2025 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...