Velvet Machine is a little plugin that makes a big sonic blur
Velvet Machine is simple but not ordinary. It is one of several plugins designed by Yuri Turov which manipulates a sound by stretching and blurring it, somewhat similar to continuous reverb.
iOS synth Zeeon sparkles on the Mac too
The best kept secret of the iOS platform, Zeeon from BeepStreet runs like a charm on Mac and macOS too.
Plunging into the nerdy world of the Audulus synthesizer environment
Audulus is a very flexible synthesizer programming environment. It’s a toolbox for creating your own synthesizers, sound effects, filters - anything that has to do with creation or manipulation of sound
Other Desert Cities is the wildest reverb machine on Earth
Even with the most basic, out-of-the-box settings, I’ve never heard anything as odd and freaky from a reverb plugin as what I made from passing simple chords through the reverbic chaos of Other Desert Cities.
Making interstellar ambient loops with SpaceFields
5 Mag reviews SpaceFields, a fascinating and useful app for making pulsating, rhythmic sound structures in deep reverb space.
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5 Magazine presents The Legend of Paul Johnson
A 5 Mag special issue on the life & music of a beloved Chicago House Music pioneer.
