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It’s one of those 80’s synth-pop lead riffs that is forever tied to the preset/patch being used to play it, the two married together in our memories. The hook from Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown boy’ has a catchy simplicity, such that it treads the line somewhere between melody and arpeggio. Its pleasant musical phrasing...

We’re back with another FRMS ‘from scratch’ tutorial video and this week we really do have two different, unrelated/random objects as sample sources. Here at Imaginando we’re lovers of both cookies and also looking our best, so it wasn’t too much of a stretch to find an empty cookies tin and a hairdryer lying around...

Taken from his debut album ‘Built from glass’, Chet Faker’s confusingly titled track ‘1998’ was first released as a single in May 2014. Very positively received by both music critics and fans at the time, the track’s popularity continues to grow as more and more people outside of the ‘Faker news’ bubble discover it...

It gives us great pleasure to announce that we are now officially six years old! So in keeping with our traditional annual anniversary celebration, we’ve got another brilliant Birthday promotion to introduce our brand new desktop ‘bundles’ with a bang: 60 Euros discount on all desktop bundles Plus mega mobile saving...

Welcome to another FRMS ‘from scratch’ tutorial video, the sound design series that thinks outside of the box, while considering how it might sound from inside the box too. Each video we encourage you to search out the unconventional when looking for sonic inspiration, by sampling whatever takes our fancy. This week...

By the time we reached the 20th century and the advent of the electronic age, sound creation had been elevated into a science in its own right. By now, we had a plethora of new techniques with which to craft new sounds and instruments. The invention of computing and digital-signal processing would truly revolutionis...

Have you ever wondered what happens when you cross granular synthesis with FM, add a little subtractive synthesis and then apply it in four courses?Whatever the answer, Imaginando FRMS is the result of this merger operation.FRMS simply stands for "frames".But can you really use granular oscillators for FM?

Sheffield, England, has produced a fair amount of electronic-pop partnerships and acts over the years, from the synth-pop and new wave of 80’s groups like The Human League and Heaven 17, to the early 2000’s funky, disco-house flavoured offerings of today’s featured artist Moloko. Founded in 1994 and disbanded ten ye...

Have you checked out our latest video series on YouTube yet? Following on from our popular DRC Sound Design Tutorials, we’re now bringing you a fresh slice of creativity in the form of our FRMS ‘from scratch’ series. Each week we sample some interesting sound sources and then get granular with the results to create ...

Not everyone has a ‘Thunder Toy’ just lying around to sample. If you watched our last FRMS tutorial video and were sad that you couldn’t give it a go yourself then there’s some good news for you this week - all you need is a ruler, a desk and a tin can. (Of course you also need some way of recording/sampling them to...

YouTube tutorials are back! After a brief hiatus, our tutorials return with a brand new video and a fresh new format for FRMS. It’s a real journey of sound design from start to finish, showing the whole process of creating a multi-layered sound from scratch, combining granular and FM synthesis. The inspiration behin...

Hi everyone, Today we’re releasing FRMS v1.0.3 - with significant improvements to overall performance! Since the release of FRMS - Granular Synthesizer last month, we’ve been busy crunching the code in order to optimise system performance across all platforms. After a couple of weeks of hard work we’re pleased to br...

Hi everyone, It goes without saying that these are challenging times, and lockdown restrictions are affecting all of us. So because of this, we are extending our FRMS half price launch offer to include the whole of April. Just in case you weren’t aware, FRMS, our latest granular based synthesizer launched at the end...

After a great launch, we’ve been busy fixing several little things which we think will make you all as happy as we are: - Adds iOS file system audio files import mechanism (iOS) - Adds Apple Pencil support via Menu -> Settings (iOS) - Fixes solo crash on AUv3 (iOS) - Quantized master transpose knob - Fixes MIDI chan...

It’s been quite a week. With our entire team all working remotely, we’re enormously proud of how the FRMS launch went, and the warm reception it has been met with in the community. Today we’d like to share with you some of our personal highlights from the past 7 days, and hopefully inspire you with some positive ene...

We’re really excited to announce the launch of our brand new virtual instrument: FRMS - Granular Synthesizer FRMS (pronounced frames) gives granular synthesis a musical edge by mixing it with subtractive and FM synthesis to produce a wide variety of possible timbres. From heavily-dense ambient drones, to glitchy mec...