Month: May 2025

Additive, subtractive, concatenative, waveguides, FM, granular, phase distortion, karplus-strong, LA, scanned, vector, wavetable… We have all these different ways of making noise, but we haven’t come up with a new one since the late 90s. Why is that? The simple answer, of course, is obvious: interaction matters more than sound. See, even a drop dead…

Why do people say the filter is the heart of an analog synth, when it’s only one of several components that make up a synth’s sound? People genuinely think that if you put an MS-20 filter in a Minimoog, it’ll sound like an MS-20, despite synths like Diva that can do this and actively show…