We’ve created two workshops with TAL-NoiseMaker – one on designing transition effects and the other on using it as a drum synth, to get you up and running. Built-in effects such as a reverb, bitcrusher and Roland Juno-style chorus mode make for some fat and heavy patches. Despite its simplicity, with three oscillators, several different filters and a pleasing amount of modulation capabilities, it can make some seriously powerful sounds. NoiseMaker builds on the success of TAL’s Elek7ro synth and is a relatively straightforward virtual analogue soft synth. We’ll be bringing you some tutorials on how to use Surge very soon, too! Surge has some built-in effects, including a reverb based on all-pass filters and delays, a flanger with extreme tuning and feedback options, and Rotary Speaker, which models the iconic Leslie Rotary cabinet. Each patch is split into two Scenes for layering up different textures. The subtractive hybrid synth features three oscillators per voice with eight oscillator algorithms plus oscillator FM/ring modulation to quickly mutate your sounds.
Used by the likes of Roger Linn, Surge is a free, open-source software synth that was, until 2019, a paid product.
