#synth

If you love big, lush, slightly weird 70s polyphonic sounds, this one is a treat. FB-3100 from Full Bucket Music is a free software synth that recreates the Korg PS-3100 polyphonic synthesizer from 1977.

I stumbled on this one yesterday and I have not stopped thinking about it. Expetri is a synth that lives in a petri dish. Instead of a wall of knobs, you get living sound cells that drift around, split

If you have ever wanted a proper old school sampler without paying for one, this is the one to grab. TX16Wx from CWITEC is a free software sampler modelled on the classic hardware samplers, with Yamaha's

I grabbed BloopMachine the day it dropped and I have been poking at it ever since. Fingerlab built a little monophonic wavetable synth with a resonant filter that takes its cue from the TB-303, then pushes

If you love that woozy early electronic sound, this one is a treat. Bucket Pops from Full Bucket Music recreates the Korg Mini Pops-7, a little analog rhythm machine from the late 1960s that ended up all

Okay, this one landed yesterday and it is Warsaw Wave's first synth, after three years of work. Revolt Patchable Synth puts everything on one page and then lets you rearrange it. You pick your panels,

If you have ever wanted a piece of late 70s Korg polyphonic weirdness without tracking down a rare and very expensive vintage synth, FB-3200 by Full Bucket Music is a great free grab. The original Korg

Okay, this one got my attention for a weird reason. Genator from Sound Overflow does not ask you to build a patch knob by knob. You describe the sound you want by picking a family, an ambience, a mood

If you love the sound of a Roland TR-909 but you do not have a few thousand bucks lying around for the real thing, DR.89 by Sender Spike is a seriously fun freebie to grab. The 909 is the drum machine

So Pittsburgh Modular finally went software, and they did not mess around. The Microvolt 3901 is a component level emulation of their old Microvolt 3900 semi-modular, except it is bigger, meaner, and fully

Okay, Massive is back, and this one actually feels like a step forward instead of a fresh coat of paint. Massive XL from Native Instruments landed yesterday, and it builds on Massive X with a bunch of

Okay, this one got my attention fast. ASYX from Isla Electronics is a software recreation of the Alesis Andromeda A6, and if you have ever priced a working Andromeda on the used market, you know why a