As any synthesis enthusiast will know, we owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Dr. Bob Moog, who distilled the concept of subtractive synthesis into a convenient format which became the benchmark for ...

Oli Larkin is responsible for VirtualCZ, a plugin emulation of Casio's classic CZ hardware synths from the '80s. Who better, then, to explain the science behind the phase distortion synthesis methods ...

Over the years controversy has raged back and forth on whether brick wall filters used in digital audio (namely for CD playback systems) exhibit phase shifts in the audio band (20Hz to 20kHz). Audio ...

For the last 15 years or so, software synths have slowly yet surely replaced those beatboxes, drum machines, and true synthesizers. It’s a loss for old hardware aficionados, but at least everyone with ...