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Straight outta Katowice, our friends at D16 Audio Group are celebrating 20 years with an all-new stereo delay: Echolite. And don't let the "lite" in the name deceive you: this all-new giveaway has some power beneath its simple UI.

GForce has updated their site, branding, and pricing (now with both lifetime licenses and subscription options). And there are two freebies, time-limited through the end of November: a Mellotron M400 instrument, and the one I suspect most readers will be…

Roland has one more announcement -- a 1.5 update for its flagship TR-1000 drum machine. That includes note sequencing, a must-requested keyboard mode for playing bass and melodic parts on the gear, the ability to swap patterns and kits with effects on…

If you feel at sea in a starless night, Ancient Future might summon charts from the ancestors, fragmented through samples and voltages, a hauntology of modular deconstruction.…

Cycling '74 has a surprisingly packed Max 9.2 update out now, with improvements and additions for Jitter, the Web, V8 (JavaScript), buffers, video on Windows, Gen, and the Ableton abl collection. It's a slew of nice stuff for patchers.

Okay, class: today's reading includes a short but inspiring passage by Estevan Carlos Benson, who has lately been suggesting we treat our musical listening biome in the same way that we do our gut.…

No, we do not all want to be reduced to brains in a jar. Music has always been about gesture, whether embodied in the breath or touch. So now is the perfect time for the LinnStrument, the human-scaled expressive grid from Roger Linn.…

teenage engineering, the company that made news for slipping in an interview that it isn’t making new synths (maybe), might also make news for making its synths do new things.…

The myth of Drexciya is getting its moment at the Toronto Biennial, as retold by Underground Resistance. That's free through December 20th if you're in Ontario, but let's kick off a watery weekend with the accompanying playlist, too, courtesy UR and…

20-year-old Palestinian producer Abed Eyad is making beats from the rubble, surviving amidst genocide. He talks to us about what that's like, what drives his productions, and how to support his music.

The kawaii look of the mini Rolands in the Boutique series has returned. There's one vintage remake -- the JUPITER-08, this time with full polyphony and then some (up to 32 voices). And there's something new: the n/vision wavetable synth.

It's not just some extra keys or minor feature tweaks. Arturia's MiniFreak 49 has evolved the range into a synthesizer you can freely explore just by playing, not programming. It's a fusion of tactile experience and sound, right when we need that.…

It's the size of a standard guitar pedal. It needs no power It's... covered in jacks. It's Mulch Box, the first hardware from Go Outside, and it's a stunningly simple idea for signal routing any of your gear, minijack and full-sized jack alike.

Forget any associations you may have with additive synthesis. Monomono's Niseko takes that harmonic content and makes it accessible and expressive, via the UI or an input (including Push and MPE).

Something special happened when Unfiltered Audio untethered their effects section from their mind-blowing drum machine Battalion: this delay and reverb opened up to creative rhythmic use everywhere. And for some reason, they're giving it to us for free.…

The library for the free and open source VCV Rack has been on fire lately. But this one is a standout: 4ms has a sprawling library of ROMpler modules based on classic drum-machine samples.…

In a world that's definitely trying to make us dumber and more depressed, let's grow our brains instead. Our friends over at Derivative have a free course that finally makes it easy to start working with POPs -- the Point OPerators that enable all that…

Deep in the forest of Superbooth earlier this month, Korg showed off some up-and-coming gems, if you knew where to look. That included a compact NTS mixer, updated Sinevibes effects for Korg gear, and add-ons for the phase8 "acoustic synthesizer,"…

There's something magical about playing sounds with polyphonic expression. It means translating sound ideas directly to your hands and improvising live, rather than having to go back and edit those ideas in later or take your hands off the keyboard to…

It's Memorial Day in the USA, Whit Monday in Germany and other parts of the West, and since what's truly sacred is shopping, that means some deals running through the end of the day.