The producer revealed the gear and techniques behind several tracks from 2024's In Waves in a recent episode of the Tape Notes podcast ...

We pit five of today's most powerful, flexible and versatile synth plugins against each other to find out who comes out on ...

Step 2: Now we’d like to select a Software Instrument to use in programming our supporting chord sequence, to sit underneath our melody line. To browse GarageBand’s available instruments, hit the ...

“I used the Oberheim Eight Voice to make these really lovely synth chords. It’s like my favourite synth ever, because you can tune every oscillator,” Jamie says of the synth, which is ...

Throw a sample of a vocal or acoustic instrument into a granular synth of your choice and it will immediately turn into an interesting textural sound that’s great for pads and chords. Increase the ...

Now, it’s monophonic, so you can’t play big synth chords the way you might with a MIDI controller, but it had no trouble keeping up with groove metal riffs and mid-tempo pentatonic solos.

It contains a patent-pending chord voicing engine, three separate synthesizer emulators (a polyphonic virtual analog subtractive synth, an FM synth and a vintage reed piano emulation inspired by a ...

The B-side starts with the sudden addition of jazz elements and themes of self-identity in “Shotgun” — swung synth chords and hi-hat taps create a more grounded atmosphere as Lutz dials back his ...