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Few realms of music technology can eat into your hard earned savings quite as rapidly as modular synthesis. Modular synths can be powerful things and are nearly endless in scope, but those possibilities come with serious cost. Pick up an some oscilla

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Although they come in many flavors, types and capabilities, oscillators have one thing in common: they are the core voice of your system. Before any modulation, filtering or mixing, the oscillators provide your patch with the fundamental tone you wor

For many modularists, the filter is the go-to tool for sound-shaping on the fly, which is why so many filters have an oversized knob for the cutoff. In essence a filter is a module that takes incoming audio and removes a controllable portion of the f

TUTORIALS | MODULAR While other categories we've talked about fall into neat groupings, utilities cover a wider range of uses. The clock divider is a common one. This does what the name suggests – breaking an incoming clock into subdivisions, so a si

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Chunks of rap, rock, and electro get thrown in the blender, mixed with phat drums, weighty basslines, and incessant bleep and bloops, alongside heart-starting FX loops, risers and every other drop-filling sonic you'll need to glue it together. Fans o

The studio dons at AT have once again delivered a laser-focused collection of single hits as part of their PURE series sample pack concept. It's 100% claps this time. And for the task, they've recruited a who's who of iconic, legendary, prized and so

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Maxwell Bidstrup, known in his native Sydney as MXXWLL, delights with his G-funk friendly rap compositions. Outside Oz, his beats have turned heads of US OGs like Snoop and Jazzy Jeff, thanks to his slick synth skills. On this, the first of his new a

Reaching for a phaser, chorus or flanger effect doesn't have to involve an acid trip every single time. There are some more restrained ways to use these plugins that we'll show you here with some high-end drum flanging and some chorus reverb modulati

There's usually a bit more to a modulation plugin than just basic controls. Here's how some of the other parameters that you might find work… ‘Voices’ refers to the number of copies of the original signal that the modulation effect creates. For examp

You'll still find phasing, chorusing and flanging available mostly as separate plugins, but there are some options for getting those three effects out of a single one. Waves MetaFlanger, for example, offers flanging into higher rates that cover choru

1 A comprehensive analog-style phaser with two LFOs for sweeping, and Center and Phase controls. Choose your number of phasing ‘stages’ to deepen the effect. The use of dual LFOs is one of Fazortan's best features, letting you dial in complex movemen

Orchestral instruments can benefit from modulation effects. Though there's nothing more realistic than real instruments played together, you get some of the way using a chorus or flanger effect with light settings. But for best results, use these plu