Sonicware Ambient Ø Review
Jul21

Sonicware Ambient Ø Review

Ambient music is easy to make badly and brutally hard to make well, which is why most instruments aimed at the genre end up as reverb vomitoriums. The Sonicware Ambient Ø is a $279 plastic box that actually understands the assignment: four independently sequenced layers, an engine built specifically to keep tones from ever settling, and seven tuning systems that matter enormously once your notes start lasting forty seconds. Then you look at the front panel and realize Sonicware spent all its brilliance on the sound and almost none of it informing you what the machine is doing, which is either a dealbreaker or the price of admission depending on how badly you want what’s inside…

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Native Instruments x A.G. Cook SuperStarSaw
Jul16

Native Instruments x A.G. Cook SuperStarSaw

At SuperStarSaw’s core are two independent 16-saw oscillator banks. A 4-corner X/Y Morpher captures four distinct patch states and allows continuous interpolation between them, turning what would otherwise be extensive automation into a single performance gesture…

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