Sampleson Backgrounds is a new soundscape creation tool that lets users combine words and ideas on a canvas to generate evolving cinematic atmospheres.

The Haas Zone Processor enables chorus, flange, phase cancellation, doubling, ADT, waveshaping and other effects.

The Roland D-50 Editor Librarian is available now as a free, browser-based application. 

Kaona B.A.C.H. is a four-voice composition generator that creates melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures in real time for Eurorack and MIDI systems.

Audacity 4 is a major rebuild of the free, open-source audio editor, introducing a redesigned interface, new editing workflow, customizable workspaces, rebuilt effects and expanded plug-in support.

At Knobcon 2026, Mike from SISKworks was showing the Cassettone, described as a “poor man’s Mellotron”, and the Modified Tape Player Prototype, a motor-controlled cassette instrum…

The explosion of unofficial firmware mods for classic hardware continues, with free mods for the Akai MPC 2000 & 2000XL. 

The Fluxophone turns anything into “a haunted musical instrument.”

The event is designed to bring hardware and software makers, musicians and the wider electronic-sound community together.

Våld Labs TRESSE is a two-layer software synthesizer with 39 sound engines, generative sequencing and extensive modulation.

At Roma Modulare 2026, Adam Miski, founder of Adamsynths and designer of the innovative Warthog Eurorack system shared an intro to the Warthog Total Recall system.

Phantom Sun is a semi-modular iPad synthesizer designed for generative patches, experimental sound design and expressive touch performance.

While Osmose 2.3 offers a lot of new features, we’ve seen some owners express frustration with the upgrade process. 

Voidscan Parasite is an experimental FM synthesizer plugin built around three-operator synthesis, extensive modulation and deliberately degraded sound processing.

Wave Oracle combines oscilloscope, XY, spectrum analysis, tuning, metering, audio-responsive visualization and integrated learning functions in a single module.

Buchla Ziggy is a compact analog desktop instrument built around a complex oscillator, low-pass gate and flexible digital modulation system.

Degauss is designed to provide access to sounds from rare vintage hardware in a software format, without requiring the original instruments.

Overtonium is a free, open-source 32-partial additive synthesizer that gives each harmonic its own channel-style controls for tuning, envelopes, modulation, stereo placement and level.

Ocean Swift Wave Editor is a standalone audio editor for Windows and Apple Silicon Macs, combining sample editing, looping and offline DSP processing.

Woovebox is a pocket-sized music workstation combining synthesis, sequencing, sampling, effects and mastering in a highly portable hardware device.

Wave Emulation is a software recreation of the classic Waldorf Wave, a hybrid wavetable synthesizer known for hybrid synth engine, featuring gritty digital oscillators paired with analog filters.

Polyend Loop combines four independent audio loop tracks, four sample-based drum tracks, a hardware sequencer and more than 100 effects in a standalone instrument.

Elektron has announced that it is banning discussion of firmware mods from its official forum, Elektronauts, because of concerns over protecting its intellectual rights and the potential for &#8216…

Nagi’s workflow combines a visual node editor, Faust DSP code and an interface designer in a single application, with an integrated audio preview that lets users hear a patch before compiling…

Befaco ARK is a 40HP Eurorack workstation developed with Tesseract that combines a 16-track sequencer with synthesis, sampling, CV generation, MIDI, harmony tools and internal mixing.

The software essentially creates a virtual machine that can run the official firmware, and handle the input and output needed to be used on your computer.

In his latest video, synthesist Starsky Carr pits a vintage legend against a modern contender in an 8-voice analog polysynth matchup. 

Arturia has release v5 firmware for the MiniFreak, adding user sample and wavetable import, plus a new Factory Bank v5.0 with 23 new presets.

If you’re an Octatrack owners, Octabam promises to give you new effects, expanded MIDI functionality, additional sound-design options and bug fixes that aren’t available in the stock fi…

Patch Base is a collection of editors and librarians for 85 hardware synthesizers.

GlitchShredder is a glitch and stutter effect for iPhone and iPad that combines stereo audio chopping, tempo synchronization, probability-based segment manipulation, bitcrushing and drive, with sta…

Give it a monophonic MIDI melody and it writes harmony parts around it, working out the voice leading.

Dirtywave M8 Music Tracker brings the M8’s eight-track tracker, sequencer, synthesizer, sampler and MIDI-controller workflow to iPhone and iPad.

Tapechild UDS-16 is a 16-voice drum synthesizer with four synthesis models inspired by the Lel UDS and Formanta Rockton, plus a Tapechild-developed engine, with all sounds generated in real time ra…

DX7 AI Studio promises to make creating DX7 patches fun.

Developer Masaki Ono has created a free, web-based sound & sequence editor for the KORG volca fm2 synthesizer.

Noise Engineering has released 16 new firmware options for its Legio Eurorack module platform.

Nopia is a compact hardware instrument built around chord-based interaction, with a hybrid sample-based/virtual-analog sound engine, four sound modules, MIDI connectivity and gesture-based controls…

The Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo is coming back to NY next month. The two-day event pops up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, October ?17–18, at a 7,000-square-foot warehouse turned immersive playground…

The macro oscillator is “an underrated gem of modern synthesis.”

Full Bucket Music has introduced FB3, a free software instrument for Mac & Windows.

The Bob Moog Foundation is excited to announce its upcoming series of livestream events, From the Source: Live Conversations with Iconic Music Innovators. The series will feature exclusive “Ask Me …

Knobcon is back for its fourteenth edition this weekend, September 11 – 13, at the Hyatt Regency in Schaumburg, Illinois.

The Antonus 3620 is a MIDI/CV keyboard, sequencer and controller inspired by the classic ARP 3620, with 37- and 49-key versions, velocity and aftertouch, split operation, an arpeggiator, step seque…

Elektron Outbox 8 is a versatile eight-channel audio/CV breakout box and USB host/device designed to expand your connectivity, with creative possibilities to boot.

The Bob Moog Foundation has announced its latest fundraising raffle for a vintage Memorymoog Plus synthesizer and a brand new Moog Muse synthesizer. The Memorymoog Plus, serial number 3067, will be…

Bjooks is celebrating 909 Day with a “major milestone for drum machine lovers”: physical copies of the highly anticipated BEAT GEMS: Drum Machines in Modern Music will begin shipping th…

XILS-lab’s MemoryTone is a 16-voice software synthesizer built around three oscillators per voice, a 24 dB/octave self-oscillating ladder filter, expanded modulation, MPE and an advanced arpeggiato…

The N40 is a MIDI-compatible music box that has a built-in pickup and audio output.

ASICS is fully sysex compatible with the Andromeda A6 and supports bi-directional control.