Month: January 2022

  • How I Use Warps

      Mutable Instruments has a lovely history of making outwardly simple modules that do plenty of things under the hood. I’ve already written about Clouds and Rings, and now it’s Warps’ turn. Welcome to my definitive guide to Mmorph but in mono hardware form! In its default firmware, Warps is technically just 7 different effects,…

  • How To Synthesize Real Sounds

      When I tell people I do sound design using synthesizers, I usually get one of 3 responses: “show me what you’ve done,” “how?” and “what’s a synthesizer/what’s sound design?” That middle one is what today’s post is about: how exactly do you synthesize real sounds using synthesizers? What defines a synthesizer? It’s first worth…