Other songs double down on the entropy while never sparing the groove. “Happy in the Wrong Way” (what a title) is essentially a metallic jam. Imagine if the Grateful Dead had been a noise band. A song ...

“It’s a great record,” says the 17-year-old electronic experimental artist, an Animal Collective devotee who performs expansive, lively synth music at open mics across the city under the ...

We’ve kept a close eye on the progress of Telepathic Instruments’ debut synth Orchid since it was first announced earlier this year. The company, which is founded by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, ...

It contains a patent-pending chord voicing engine, three separate synthesizer emulators (a polyphonic virtual analog subtractive synth, an FM synth and a vintage reed piano emulation inspired by a ...

It boasts three synths – a polyphonic virtual analog subtractive synth, an FM synth for modulations and a “vintage reed piano emulation”. Users can experiment with several modes, with the ...

The Orchid has been shaped by Telepathic Instruments’ co-founder Ignacio Germade, following an idea that Parker had over a decade ago to harness a chord generator with a powerful synth engine (the ...

This is the source code that accompanies the book Code Your Own Synth Plug-Ins With C++ and JUCE by Matthijs Hollemans. This 360-page book teaches step-by-step how to design and build a software ...

In the 1970s, guitar-centric rock culture largely looked at synthesizer players as nerds who needed to get a life. The following decade, it was the revenge of the nerds. Suddenly the ball was in ...

Specifically, The Orchid is powered by three separate synths: polyphonic virtual analog subtractive synth for classic tones, an FM synth for modulations, and a “vintage reed piano emulation” complete ...

JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, RTAS and AAX audio plug-ins.