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Free presets and patches
The free sounds, presets, and patches for all our plugin software products. Easy to install with a Windows Installer or zip file with identical presets. Check out Massive, Prophet, and Serum presets demos before you buy.
Prophet v3 unison basses demo - free presets
Arturia V Collection Prophet V3 presets. Free synth bass sounds. A free package with great basses for a classic in Unison mode for fatness.
New free Arturia Pigments 3 update
Now there is a new free Arturia Pigments 3 update with some great and useful updates making it a more complete synthesizer.
DCO 106 - A Roland Juno synthesizer model
Cherry Audio DCO 106 - A Juno 106 analog synth model with modern modifications. In 1984 Roland released a new six-voice digitally controlled analog synthesizer.
9 good chorus plugins
An article about Chorus effects. What is it and how to use it. 9 best chorus plugins for your DAW. Free and paid like TAL Chours LX, EchoBoy, Valhalla, Audio Damage Quatromod.
Top Free VST Plugins 2020
The best free VST plugins available in 2020. This article is about free high-quality plugins for music production in any genre. Valhalla supermassive, Saturation and Voxengo Span
Best delay plugins
What is the best delay plugins right now and how to use them? A review and comparison of some great VST delays. Valhalla Delay, Colour Copy and H-Delay
Best EQ VST plugins
What EQ VST plugins are good and for what. An article about equalizers and filters. A look at 16 different eqs from SSL, Waves Audio, Izotope inc, IK Multimedia and Cubase
Drum machines and samplers
How to make beats with drum machines and samplers. 4 sampler plugins and how to use them creatively for beat making, drum patterns, and drum programming.
How to build a pc for music production
How to build a PC for music production and making beats. Where you start and what does it take. Best music production software.
How to make a Kontakt Instrument
An article about how to make a custom interface for Native Instruments Kontakt. How to make the knobs, sliders, and background image. Kontakt Scripting tips.
New synths 2019 - pigments 2 vs massive x
A blog post about two synths released in 2019. Two of the best synthesizers. Arturia Pigments 2 and Native Instruments Massive X. Two very different instruments but are they worth using?
Arturia Pigments - modulation with functions
Arturia Pigments sound design - filter modulation with function 1 to 3 synth modulators. How to use function 1 to 3 creatively for modulating frequency and other parameters.
New Arturia Pigments update
New Arturia Pigments 2 update v 2.0.1.837. New features and Bug fixes. No more time limit on user samples. Sample loop is now correctly saved. Poly aftertouch is working again.
How to make your synth sound wider
How to get stereo width in your mix. A short article with some stereo tricks for impact and making your synths sound fuller and bigger.
Synthesizer design and programming lingo
An overview of analog and digital synthesizer design and how to program them. Synthesis is a synthesis method where oscillators generate waveforms and then filter out frequencies over time. VCO/DCO and filter VCF
Gain Staging in your DAW
Gain Staging is about controlling the levels of channels, busses/groups and master channel. K-14 helps you in the mixing process.
DAW Project Organization
Organization your projects with Cubase as a sample. A best practice article on organizing your DAW Projects for better and faster workflow before mixdown.
Mixing with reference tracks
Mixing music with reference tracks. How to set up and use reference tracks in your DAW. A best practice article for better mixes and better results.
Zero latency plugins
Composing and working with zero latency plugins. An article about plugins and latency and how it affects your workflow. Cubase latency and waves latency chart.
Synthesizers plugins and cpu usage
Synthesizers VSTi plugins and VST plugins CPU usage. What is latency and CPU usage? How to record real-time with latency-free plugins in your favorite DAW.
Massive X synthesizer is out
Massive X is the latest synthesizer from Native Instrumnts. It is a modern synthesizer with lots of modulation capabilities and steps up from the old Massive synth.
Arturia Pigments Quick Review
Plugin review. Pigments is Arturia's new synth from 2019. A modern Arturia plugin version of a hybrid analog vs wavetable synthesizer with extensive modulation. Check out our Arturia Pigments presets.
Massive is still alive
NI Massive is still alive? A new Massive X has been released but what about the old tried and tested Massive. Is it dead or alive?
Buyers guide to Softsynths
A buyers guide to synthesizers in 2019. A round up of the most interesting synths and some outsiders.
Renew Your Synths
New synth presets for your favorite synths. You probably already own enough software synthesizers for the production of 10 albums.
Arturia - Digital Synth - Analog Sound
Digital synths - Analog sound. Arturia V collection. The early versions of V Collection was emulaions of old vinage analog synths like Minimoog Model D, Jupiter 8, ARP 2600, Yamaha CS-80 and Modular.
Managing plugin user presets location
Managing plugin user libraries and directories for your instruments. Find the preset folder and content location for your synths. Where should you save presets for your favorite synthesizers? Omnisphere, Serum, Massive and Arturia presets
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Sitemap overview - all pages in he site. A liste of all pages with link to the page. Synth presets and sounds pages overview.
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Sell beats and sample libraries
How to sell music samples. Are you a content creator. sell beats, presets, and samples on 16 sounds webshop. Get a content creator profile here. Sell beats and plugins.