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For most of us, social distancing has been a part of our lives for almost a year, with various local rules and restrictions we must follow, as part of the global campaign against covid. As the world adapts to meet these tough challenges, one particularly hard-hit area is nightclubs and live music venues, where there...

Discover a new world of glitchiness in FRMS v1.3.0 with the release of the new ‘Glitches From The Heart’ preset pack by Perplex On! Following the success of FRMS’ first guest artist preset pack from Supremeja Music, we are excited to bring you another fantastic set of sounds, this time from the amazing creative tale...

When Lucas takes on a classic or iconic track to analyse and reproduce the same kind of sounds using DRC, there are a few signs and hints when he has done a particularly good job. The first and most obvious indicator is YouTube’s robot copyright police, AKA ‘Content ID’ flagging up the video with a copyright claim. ...

It’s almost time to say goodbye to 2020, and while it has been a challenging year, there are plenty of achievements for us to look back on with pride, as we prepare to push things forward in 2021. Right at the start of 2020, it was ‘out with the old, and in with the new’, as we said goodbye to 32 bit plugins, and he...

Over the years, Daft Punk have masterfully sampled many tracks by other artists, taking it as source material, then twisting, transforming and turning it into massive records of their own. In some of their tracks, the ‘borrowed’ elements are undeniably plain to see, like the guitar riff from the 'Human After All' tr...

‘Space - the final frontier...’ Don’t worry we’re not about to launch into a full-on Star Trek monologue, instead we’re going to use that snippet of iconic television dialogue as the launchpad to blast off into the world of space and science, as a source of musical inspiration. In terms of relevant band names, one s...

The godfather of disco and the grandfather of dance music are two terms that Italian synthesiser legend Giorgio Moroder is not particularly fond of. Yet these two titles are nothing if not deserved. Take the unforgettable bassline of Donna Summer’s ‘I feel Love’ - now try getting that iconic little masterpiece out o...

It’s the end of November which means it’s time for a sale. A mega sale! We’re offering 50% off all desktop products and mobile app purchases until the end of November! It’s not just a big Friday, we’re slicing our pricing in half - all products, all platforms. Everything is reduced until December! From today we’ve b...

We’ve just released FRMS v1.2.0 which is available to download now via our website and mobile app stores. This new version includes the following changes: New preset pack 'Sounds Of Saxophone' Layer GAIN parameter is now available in oscillator mode New LFO parameter 'OFFSET' New layer parameter 'OCTAVE' Added expor...

Vince Clarke is a synthesizer superstar. It’s fair to say we are big fans, as is evidenced by Lucas referring to Clarke as a “genius” right at the very start of today’s video! Before becoming one half of synth-pop legends Erasure, he was part of the almighty Depeche Mode, back when their sound was more electropop he...

Hi everyone, FRMS has been nominated for MusicTech magazine’s ‘Gear Of The Year’ awards 2020 as part of the ‘best software synth’ category! This is where you, our fantastic community come in - we’d really appreciate it if you could vote for FRMS, and help us win MusicTech’s ‘best software synth’ of 2020! To vote for...

The Pet Shop Boys ‘West End Girls’ wasn’t an instant smash hit, even though ironically, the band’s Neil Tennant wrote it while working as a journalist for the huge UK music magazine at the time ‘Smash Hits’. The original version was in fact recorded by record producer Bobby Orlando after meeting Tennant during a Sma...

This week our resident sound design master Lucas brings a whole new meaning to the term ‘racing jacket’ in honour of F1 motor racing returning to Portugal, after a 24 year hiatus! To celebrate the recent Portugal GP hosted at Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, Lucas was inspired to create some F1 car style sounds u...

Today we are delighted to share with you the latest functionality to be added to LK Matrix module; MIDI composition tools. Further enhancing Matrix MIDI clip composer, these new tools offer a variety of creative uses, alongside useful timesaving functions. In today's video we take a look at the melody generation and...

Today we’re launching DRC v2.5.0 with a brand new soundbank - Iconic Sounds Vol. 3! As well as a listening party live stream this Friday, we’re running a special offer on all Iconic Sounds packs for the next seven days: 50% OFF ALL ICONIC SOUNDS PACKS! To mark the release of the third installment in our ‘Iconic Soun...

“La da dee, la da da” - even without music or any pitch assigned to any of those words, if you are a house music aficionado, chances are you are already singing that truly iconic vocal hook in your head. Equally iconic and inseparable is the accompanying soulful organ stabs of this track’s unforgettable 90’s riff. T...