Massive has been perennially popular with producers of all electronic genre’s.

I love modulating the WT Pos with an LFO and then drawing some unique shapes for next level wobbles:Īlso check out the Serum synth preset packs available at Loopmasters. You can also tempo sync your envelope settings by double clicking on the time value and entering your grid settings (eg. The FX section goes above and beyond anything I’ve seen before (multi band compression in a synthesiser?!?), and drawing your own customised LFO shapes is loads of fun.

To me it’s the (unofficial) follow up to Massive, it’s really simple to use on the face of it and the bundled presets sound great, but if you want to go much deeper and start creating your own custom wavetables by importing audio (or even images!) it’s all possible. Jonny takes each of these synths for a spin (in no particular order, we’ve just numbered them for easy navigation), with audio examples, highlighting why they’re special or distinctive and picking out some key tips and tricks for getting the most out these favourite synths. Here, techno producer Jonny Strinati aka Strinner takes us through his selection of some of the best synth plugins available for all types of modern electronic music production, with an emphasis on techno, house and other punchy electronic genres.

Everybody has their favourite synths, their go-to’s for particular types of sounds or for working in specific genres, and there has never been such a great selection of synth sound sources to choose from, whether you’re looking to create the most crisp and cutting-edge lead line or the warmest and most characterful analogue bass groove.

Fm8 synth