The '80s had no shortage of massive-sounding synthesizers, but many of them have either gone out to pasture or are prohibitively expensive on the secondhand market. Software companies often try to ...

When Native Instruments first released the virtual synth Massive in 2007, it quickly took the music production world by storm. Producers loved the three oscillator wavetable synth plugin -- with its ...

The Berlin-based music technology company Native Instruments, also the parent company of iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and ...

In the pantheon of great soft synth plugins, Native Instruments’ FM8 ranks pretty highly, so what if we told you you could currently pick it up for the rock-bottom price of just $10/£12/€12? Sounds ...

The trailblazing soft synth that we’d all but given up hope on has made a glorious comeback, but how does Absynth fit into a ...

For in-the-box producers, the return of Native Instruments’ best-loved synth is well, massive. To put it into context, at a time when music technology headlines seem always to be stolen by hardware, a ...

The quality of home studio recording has rivaled that of commercial facilities for years. That shift is evident in pop albums like Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, SZA’s Ctrl, ...

Berlin, Germany-based musical instrument software developer Native Instruments has announced the release of an update to its virtual analog synthesizer, Pro-52. Now called Pro-53, the software ...

Sequential has released a new instrument called Forum, its most affordable synth ever. The compact piece of hardware is a 4-voice analog synthesizer with polyphonic aftertouch, built on the voice ...