SYNTHMASTER PLAYER

It’s our Synth Special so what better plugin to give away than KV331 Audio’s SynthMaster Player? Here’s how to claim it and use it!

It’s got 1800 ace, tweakable synth sounds – here’s how to get ‘em

KV331 Audio’s SynthMaster has been reviewed in ComputerMusic no less than half a dozen times and on every occasion bar one has scored a massive 9/10. It’s the mothership of a synth range that includes the cut-down One and Player. There has been a free version of Player available as a download for some time – complete with 550 solid presets – and it appeared in our 100 Best Freeware Apps in 281). But this is the first time the full version of Player, with its massive 1800 factory presets, has ever been free. And it’s yours, so rejoice!

Never has a synth been so well named as SynthMaster. It truly is, as one clever reviewer once noted, ‘the master of synths’, managing to combine several engines, great routing and an incredible sound into a package that, while not massively easy to use for a synth newbie, is about as easy it can be, considering the power. It is, as we also point out on p36, one of the finest softsynths ever released.

SynthMaster Player essentially gives you a ‘best of’ SynthMaster, a wonderful showing off of those engines, with 1800 incredible presets, and just enough controls to have you tweaking those onboard sounds to make them your own.

Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that we already give away SynthMaster CM each issue. Well that is a different beast, with more tweakage and less sounds. Player is your showoff noise maker to SynthMaster CM’s more thoughtful approach.

Over the next few pages we’ll show you how to install, register and make the most of SynthMaster Player, and also make the most of – and tweak – some of its astonishing presets. You can also read a special interview with KV331’s Bulent Biyikoglu on p8.