Enter an organic sound machine that will take you to an imagined sound world somewhere between a temple garden and a half-awake dream. ENDOGEN is a dazzling tool, built in Max and SuperCollider, that explores notions of lowercase synthesis. There's a lot to cover as far as what it can do -- but you should also feel empowered to play and get lost.
Serum 2: Advanced Hybrid Synthesizer
The original motivation for creating Serum was to have a dream synthesizer that did not exist: a wavetable synthesizer with a truly high-quality sound, visual and creative workflow-oriented interface to make creating and altering sounds fun instead of tedious, and the ability to "go deep" when desired - to create / import / edit / morph wavetables, and manipulate these on playback in real-time.
Serum 2: wavetable champ becomes much more in huge, free update - CDM Create Digital Music
Serum 2, 11 years in development, is here. And it looks ready to take on its rivals, with an updated interface, arpeggiator expanded oscillator architecture (phase distortion!), granular and multisampler and spectral oscillators, new effects features, and - surprise, even a clip sequencer. It's really an all-in-one synth now without sacrificing its trademark accessibility. Here's everything in a nutshell.
DIY synths database
Curated collection of DIY-friendly hardware synthesizers and related musical equipment you can build on your own. All open source.
Finale - How Music Software Dies
Finale - How Music Software Dies
Classic Synth Sounds in Bitwig
This Bitwig Course covers classic sounds from electronic music that you can create with simple subtractive synthesizers and a few tweaks, without complex fx chains. If you start making music, you should know these classics, because every other sound is more or less an fork or alteration of these classics!
A dispatch from the dawn of the electronic music age | Aeon Videos
These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it
The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music
Explore the astonishing amount of music available to AI developers.
Bespoke Synth
Bespoke is a software modular synthesizer. It contains a bunch of modules, which you can connect together to create sounds.
Patternflow — An LED synthesizer
Patternflow is an open-source LED synthesizer. Play light with your fingertips.
HiChord - Pocket Chord Synthesizer
Write songs anywhere. Instantly playable, deeply featured. Play chords with one button.
synopsis-04: lobe ui
lobe ui // 2000 undulant interface for genetic music manipulation system. a tool for professional music synthesis, lobe needed a ui that would allow composers and producers to string together very large networks of processing nodes, each with some number of adjustable parameters and each with potential connections to one, two, or three other nodes. because depicting the node network at full detail would require thousands of times more screen space than is available, the ui invents a technique called "local quantized zooming" in which a single node can be caused to fold or unfold levels of detail, thus requiring more or less screen space. the work was also an opportunity to exercise two important interface design principles: (1) transitions between states -- animation -- can be information-bearing and context-preserving; (2) quiet, pseudoperiodic motion can disambiguate relationships that might otherwise be too dense or subtle to apprehend. designed and implemented for seminal music production studio 'tomandandy'. genetic music algorithms by jay hardesty and andy milburn.
“It’s unfamiliar, intimidating, and seemingly impenetrable for producers raised on DAWs like Ableton Live - but it can unlock a whole new world of creativity”: I tried a music tracker and it rewired my brain (in a good way)
Beloved by artists from Aphex Twin to Deadmau5, trackers swap the trusty piano roll for a text-based, vertically-scrolling interface that looks like something out of The Matrix. Let's find out how deep the tracker rabbit hole goes
copych/AcidBox
ESP32 synth: all-in-one acid combo of two TB303's, a drum machine with fx chain, cd-quality