22 published posts
Three modular manufacturers announcing new hardware inside seven days isn’t a coincidence, it’s a squeeze. Make Noise, Erica Synths and...
I have been waiting for someone to do this properly. Mutable Instruments Plaits is one of the most influential macro-oscillators...
A particular frustration comes with ambient pads. You spend an hour dialing in something gorgeous – warm, wide, moving –...
On a roughly quarterly basis someone in a group chat asks the same question: if you had to wipe your...
u-he doesn’t move fast, which is exactly why its firmware drops land differently than the usual plugin churn. When a...
The test I run on free plugins before they get to stay on my machine: I open a real session...
Every record I finish comes back to the same argument: the kick and the bass both want the same octave,...
The hardest thing about ambient music isn’t making something pretty. It’s making something that stays alive across eight minutes without...
I’ve had both Serum and Vital sitting in my template for years, and I still get asked the same question...
Pigments has been my ambient workhorse for years now, and version 6 didn’t just add features – it changed how...
Serum has been sitting in my default template since 2014. It’s the synth I reach for when I need a...
Two EPs in, and the granular plugins that survived aren’t the ones with the biggest feature lists. They’re the ones...