Virtual Studio Technology allows you to incorporate a variety of effects and instruments into your recording projects. VST effects and instruments are called plugins, and are implemented within a ...

Xfer Records' Serum can do percussive sounds as well... When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Soft synth plugins such as Xfer Records' ...

The advent of the VST plugin is arguably the most pivotal, important development in shaping the way we make music on our computers today. When Steinberg made its VST technology freely available to any ...

Fully functional support for the VST plugin standard is one of the most important remaining problems for the Linux audio world. VST plugins are ubiquitous in the Win/Mac audio worlds, they are ...

Hi! My apologies if this is the wrong forum. I figured the A/V club would know an answer to this. I have some great guitar sounds set up with Amplitube and GR5 on my big fat studio computer. I want to ...

Let’s not sugarcoat it – things have changed. There was a time when if you wanted strings on a track, you had to call a quartet. Horns? Hire a session player. Even a simple piano line meant booking ...

There are some very capable free synths out there and we’ve covered a fair few in this series. Nevertheless, they do tend to follow established synthesis methods, and this may not be particularly ...