Parasite Antifilter rhythm demo.

video upload by flightofharmony

https://flightofharmony.com

"A small example of using the Parasite Antifilter to generate a rhythm sequence. All sounds generated by the Parasite Antifilter, using a Facehugger control module for the sequencing transients, and LFOs from two Infernal Noise Machines for the other variations. Output audio routed through Plague Bearer filter initially, with ramp from INM controlling Gain. INM VCAs and Choices joystick used as level controls.

Initial Patch:
(1= bottom rack, 2 = top rack)
• Facehugger 1 Out to Parasite Antifilter In.
• Facehugger Gate 7 Out to Parasite Antifilter High Freq CV, but I forget to use this until after altering the patch so it's mostly unused.
• Facehugger 2 to Parasite Antifilter Low Q CV, but I forget to start the Facehugger, so it's inactive.
• INM 1 LFO Sine out to Parasite Antifilter Low Freq CV (through INM 1 VCA 2 for level control).
• INM 1 LFO Ramp out to Plague Bearer Gain CV (through INM 1 VCA 1 for level control).
• INM 2 LFO Sine out to Parasite Antifilter Mid Freq CV (through Choices for level control)."

Tasty Chips GR-2 Incoming

via Tasty Chips:

"There was the GR-1, then there was the bigger brother to extend the family, the GR-MEGA, and now there’s the GR-2.

The GR-2 is the direct successor of the GR-1. Similar size, similar price, but with a large touch screen, and many of the GR-MEGA’s abilities. As loyal readers of our mailing list, you are the first to know. We offer a limited amount of early bird units at 100 euro discount. We chose Kickstarter to reach a large audience and gauge interest, and you guys are the first the learn about it.

Visit us at Superbooth this weekend for a GR-2 demo, and of course you can also play around with all our other synths and effects.

For GR-MEGA owners: the GR-2 is like a little brother of the GR-MEGA. Both can run the same patches, and have largely the same abilities. The GR-2 has somewhat lower polyphony, lacks the amount of function-specific knobs and buttons, and lacks luxury interfaces like HDMI and balanced audio. The GR-2 firmware has the same “root” as the GR-MEGA’s. This means the GR-2 hitches a piggyback ride on the mature GR-MEGA for a great start.. and after a while the GR-MEGA will benefit from large amounts of sold GR-2’s: more user feedback, leading to more features, higher quality, and a large patch library.

If you want the best granular synthesizer and sound design tool out there, please support us.. and yourself. 🙂 Thank you! 🙏"

Additional details via Kickstarter.

The GR-2 is a granular synth, transformative sampler, and a portable sound design tool. It's ideally suited to stand-alone use. It can drone, you can use the touchscreen to play it like a live instrument. Attach MIDI gear or computer to use it like a traditional synth. Samples Samples want to be heard, but also seen, touched, and transformed. That's what the GR-2 delivers. Triggers, and manipulation are immediate. There's no setup, and there's visual feedback for everything.

Easy to use

The 7" touch screen, and high contrast GUI make life easy. There are spatially associated encoders along the the edges of the display. The most important settings are always visible, and they're big.

The most important settings are available from Quick Access (QA) menu buttons at the top. Using a touch gesture you can make them full screen. Deeper menus are accessible via the menu button. And rest assured, you're never more than 1 level deep + all GUI widgets are big and high contrast.

Power

The GR-2 is compact, no more than 25x19x7 cm, but it's powerful. While the touchscreen plays a large role, the knobs and fader are essential to the tactile, immediate, and precise nature of this synth.

Transformation is key. Load or record a sample, then mangle it through one of the many engines and effects. Long field recordings, transients, tonal material, the GR-2 eats them all. Make them unrecognizable, emphasize their inherent character, or add your own accents. Make them scatter in the granular engine, add subtle stutters, let it smoothly sustain forever, or make it whistle and bubble in the spectral engine. Using the many knobs and up-front menus, this quickly becomes like a second nature.

Polyphonic, multi-timbral, multi-engine, MPE capable, a dozen high quality effects, macros, and a deep polyphonic modulation matrix with over 120 destinations and 24 sources. Of course touch X,Y are mod sources. Our granular engine is the best you'll find in any hardware synth. A claim we dare make with ease. You can leverage the power of a touch screen, and play multiple notes and chords, along with gestural modulation accross 4 timbres. You can even record and transform touch gestures for modulation."

Native Instruments Introduces Komplete 26

video upload by Native Instruments

"Get everything you need to take your music from first idea to finished master, including instruments, effects, and sounds trusted by the pros. Komplete 26 gives you synths, sampled instruments, drums, sound design tools, and studio effects – all in one complete music production bundle.

Whether you're composing, producing, or designing sound, Komplete gives you the tools to follow your ideas wherever they lead."

Press release follows:


Berlin, May 05, 2026 – Native Instruments today released Komplete 26 — everything a music producer needs to take a first idea to a finished, release-ready track. With over 190 premium instruments, professional mixing tools from iZotope and Brainworx, and more than 180,000 sounds, it's the most definitive music production collection NI has ever made.

Trusted by the producers behind the records you know Komplete is used by millions of producers, composers, and musicians every month — from bedroom studios to Grammy-winning sessions. It's the instrument collection behind some of the most iconic tracks you know, and the ones you're about to make.

"I use Komplete in every single session. It lets me stay focused on the music instead of the tools, and whether I'm writing or tweaking, it's a fast way for me to transform my idea to something that feels finished." — Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth)

“Komplete has been part of my production journey since day one. I know I can open it and get exactly what I need, every time.” — Nick Hook (Run The Jewels, Hudson Mohawke)

"Komplete is a must-have for me in my studio. As someone who is always blending genres and pushing the edges of sound design, the versatility of Komplete allows me to have an entire sonic world at my fingertips at all times." — Malibu Babie (Megan Thee Stallion, Shania Twain, Sia)

New additions: sounds for every style and stage Newly added is the legendary semi-modular synth, Absynth 6, known for its evolving, otherworldly tones. Also included are Noire and Claire – sampled from rare grand pianos – and the ethereal vocal soundscapes of Moments: Vocal Clouds.

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Prophet 10 - Best Synth Ever? - Play Through (No Talking)

video upload by Toucan Studios

"SEQUENTIAL PROPHET 10 Rev4 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer
Reintroduced in 2020

A modern revival of one of the most iconic synthesizers ever made, the Prophet 10 Rev4 combines the legendary sound of the original Prophet 5 and Prophet 10 with modern reliability and expanded flexibility:

10 voice polyphony
True analog VCOs and filters
Vintage knob for variable era accurate character
Poly Mod and classic Prophet architecture
Velocity and aftertouch support

In this demo, we explore a range of inspiring presets and custom programmed patches, from lush pads and powerful brass to warm vintage leads and cinematic analog textures.

This video highlights the unmistakable sound and creative potential of the Prophet 10, showcasing why it remains one of the most revered polysynths ever created."

ESK - Improvisation 12

video upload by Metunar

"Jam with a Yamaha DX7s FM synthesizer trough a Digitech DHP-55 and a Qantec Yardstick 2402/F reverb effect. Direct recording with soft mastering."

http://www.metunar.ch

Meet Ziggy, the new desktop instrument from Buchla!

video upload by Buchla

"Meet the Buchla Ziggy - a new instrument formed around the famous Buchla “complex oscillator.” With a new, “unpatched” instrument experience, Ziggy offers quick, gestural means of assigning modulation and composing music. Ziggy incorporates many of the Buchla innovations that have long been taken for granted: digital control over the analog audio, additive synthesis, unique and musical interactions, and the focus on making an “instrument” rather than a “synthesizer.”

All sounds in the video were made with the Ziggy!

Learn more and preorder yours now at Buchla.com, a Buchla dealer, or Kickstarter!"

Update: additional pics via Perfect Circuit added below.

What is Ziggy?

The Buchla Ziggy is a new instrument formed around the famous Buchla “complex oscillator.” With a new, “unpatched” instrument experience, Ziggy offers quick, gestural means of assigning modulation and composing music. Ziggy incorporates many of the Buchla innovations that have long been taken for granted: digital control over the analog audio, additive synthesis, unique and musical interactions, and the focus on making an “instrument” rather than a “synthesizer.” Ziggy modernizes and simplifies a familiar Buchla tradition: composing music in a style of synthesis often associated with the western coast of America. Like any musical instrument, it can be played on its own, crafting sequences and sounds from its unique arrangement of controls. It pairs very nicely with a portable keyboard like the Buchla LEM218, but It also plays with a large range of third-party devices and DAWs through MIDI, USB, and 1v/octave CV.

There are a number of unique ways to shape your sounds internally and externally. The Cycler is an original modulation source that acts like the combination of a clock, envelope generator, LFO and random generator. With it, you can modulate pitch and timbre and/or trigger the gate envelopes. Other modulation sources include an “extra” slow LFO and external MIDI control. Rather than using cumbersome patchcords, modulation is assigned with switch selection and dialed in with the encoder or its own associated sliders.The modulation oscillator acts as the primary modulation source at low frequency or audio rates to modulate the Complex Oscillator with AM or FM modulation, and is often blended as a second sound source. The Envelope for the Low Pass Gate (a combination amplifier/filter) can be shaped by selecting common envelopes and manipulated in time and amount, rather than attack, decay, sustain, release.

Creatively, it is easy to quickly make music and design sounds with Ziggy. Assigning modulation to different parameters is made with simple gestures of holding buttons and moving sliders. Surprise is certain, with a source of “uncertainty” available for the Cycler’s attributes. Sounds are easily saved with the simple preset system. Glowing LEDs indicate assignments and modulations. Its unique analog sounds are sure to delight and entertain. Special chaotic modulators can be accessed from the menus, driving the sounds in unusual ways. Scales and alternate tunings expand your musical universe while pitch sliders can be quantized to scales to make them melodically playable

Musically, Ziggy is versatile. With two analog oscillators, multiple modulators, a variety of tunings, envelopes, and wavefolding and shaping, there’s a variety of sounds to be made. While Buchla is often associated with the purely experimental, there’s strange strings, wonderful drums, exotic leads, plucky percussions, and deeply felt basses that can be synthesized from Ziggy.

Practically, Ziggy fits well in a small studio. The patchcord-free design, simple USB-C power, and comprehensive MIDI control makes it easy to add to your kit; its handsome, durable enclosure of oak and steel with classic Buchla style makes it belong. Configure the device through its simple menus or using a web browser and the web app.

Update: additional pics via Perfect Circuit

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Bloop Groop Weekender Pics & Upcoming Event

Pics from the last events are currently up on Bloop Group. It looks like they had a fantastic event with over 160 people in attendance. They sold out their last three events. If you'd like to go to their next one, you might want to get a head start on it: Bloop Groop 16: Hang, Jam, Play Friday 24 April 2026 18:30 21:30.

On a side note, Caroline Swords of Bloop Group will be an official SUPERBOOTH 2025 Attendee.

Pink Parrot QuadTrack Dynamic Performance Sequencer

Quad x Quad - QuadTrack Compilation video uploads by MrDataline

Find out more about QuadTrack on this link: https://pinkparrot.studio/quadtrack

"QuadTrack is a Standalone 4-track Dynamic Performance Sequencer, based on the legendary Commodore Amiga Computer architecture and sound. The limitations of Amiga system has been carefully converted into a creative and unique rhythmical playground, to bring the forgotten charm & sound of retro home computers to modern systems.

Built for Mac and PC via emulating a super-powered Amiga by FS-UAE - no installation or setup required. Also available for any Amiga with 68040 cpu, 2meg chip ram & 2meg fast ram.

4 Track Sample Sequencer with individual Step Length, Division and Playback Direction

640 Samples, divided into 10 SampleSets
Step Probability
Trig Tools
Tron Sequencer FX engines
Pitch & Sample modulation Sequencer
Realtime Snapshot saving, loading and sequencing
2 Player mode
Performance oriented keyboard controls"

1 screen interface
no Menus
everything available anytime

4 tracks with individual step length, division, sequencer direction
3 levels of trig probability
4 types of trig tools

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PolyFreq Introduces Phonon Plug-In Debut as Precision Granular Laboratory for Sonic Alchemy

video upload by PolyFreq

Press release follows:

PolyFreq pitches availability of Phonon plug-in debut as precision granular laboratory for sonic alchemy

BRISTOL, UK: boutique musical tools-maker PolyFreq is proud to announce availability of Phonon as its debut plug-in — pitched as a precision laboratory for sonic alchemy, built around a high-quality sample granulation engine with root note detection, four keyboard follow modes, and legato giving it real versatility as a playable instrument — as of May 5…

Acting as a musical synthesiser first and foremost, Phonon is designed for very intentional, controllable reconstruction of one source, leaning into synchronous granular or ‘graintable’ synthesis. Sub-sample grain scheduling and separate grain rate and density controls open new vistas of repeatable, controllable timbre and tempo across macro and micro parameter ranges. Reality dictates that where other granular synths default to randomisation or multiple sources, Phonon provides users with complete control over every grain — from classic textural clouds to malleable ‘grainwave’ synthesis. Indeed, it is equal parts laboratory and playground.

“Phonon’s development was inspired by the great creativity of early granular work from composers such as Wishart and Roads, and the deep listening of Oliveros, with a desire to make this wild, creative territory more accessible to electronic music production and sound design, without stripping away what makes it strange and inspirational.” So says PolyFreq founder Nick Mariette by way of an illuminating introduction. It aims for ease of use, with a simple drag-and-drop workflow for modulation, and most features are immediately visible, with minimal menus or hidden options. And a flexible array of audio-rate modulation sources provide huge scope for patches that respond and evolve, including LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators), envelopes, sample metadata, sequencers, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) control data, and various noise flavours.

Features additionally worthy of the edited highlights treatment here include Phonon’s granular engine — eight voices of polyphony with up to 256 grains per voice and sub-sample precision that bridges the gap between classic textures and sharp ‘graintable’ synthesis; effects — shape sounds with a character-driven signal chain, from saturating drive to resonant filtering, as well as a utility reverb for glue or depth; presets — easily capture, export, evolve, and share sonic creations with sample embedding and eight-way snapshots; and drag-and-drop workflow in a resizeable interface for easy enjoyment as a standalone instrument or for plug-in-based DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) production.

Phonon’s uses are almost endless — think time stretching; pitch shifting; sample mangling; sound design; classic textural, granular clouds; synchronous, tuned granular tone creation; creating a synth from any sample; rhythmic grain generation, synced to host; beat retiming and timbre distortion; and more besides. Back to Nick Mariette: “Phonon is intended for reshaping beats and designing synth leads as much as for losing time in ethereal granular atmospheres; I hope it will connect people to listening differently, discovering the sounds within sounds.”

Anyone attending SUPERBOOTH26, May 7-9, FEZ-Berlin, Germany is hereby encouraged to swing by Booth H116 there, where PolyFreq will be showcasing Phonon to the musical masses assembled and Nick Mariette himself will be on hand to personally provide a warm welcome with an open invitation to discover those sounds within sounds. Spanning chaotic clouds to precise synthesis, controllable sonic alchemy is there for the taking so why not take this hands-on opportunity to discover and delight in vibrating matter differently with Phonon!

Phonon is available to buy as a standalone or VST3 plug-in for macOS (10.13 or later) and Windows (10 or later) at a 33% launch discount — duly rising thereafter to its full price of $89.00 USD (excluding tax)/€76.00 EUR (including tax)/£68.00 GBP (including tax) — directly from PolyFreq here: https://www.polyfreq.com/products

For more in-depth information, please visit the PolyFreq products webpage here: https://www.polyfreq.com/products

LFOs + Logic = Ace! // Halo from Vostok Instruments

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video upload by DivKid

"Here we have the new 'Halo' from Vostok Instruments and a video that is a demo of Halo and also a load of use cases for LFOs in a modular system going from more simple to more advanced applications. I hope you find the techniques useful for a range of LFOs and that it gives you ideas about Halo with its 4 LFOs and multiple output logic section."

Halo is a compact quad LFO designed to provide a large amount of modulation in 10HP.

The module generates up to 16 simultaneous signals covering a wide range from classic triangle and square waves to complex logic-based sources.

Each channel is built on a CV-controlled analog core and offers two selectable frequency ranges, finely tuned to cover most applications.

The Logic section creates new waveforms from each channel pair using analog boolean circuits for AND, OR, and XOR operations, as well as a mix of both channels.

Halo counts with the classic Vostok design layout, making it friendly and accessible to any user, yet also deep and powerful in functionality, allowing you to create an entire array of modulation goodness in a compact form.

Features

Four analog CV-controlled LFOs.
Manual and CV-controlled Frequency per channel.
Triangle and Square waveforms per channel.
Selectable frequency range from >2min to 80Hz.
Dedicated Logic section adding 8 extra modulation outputs with AND, OR, XOR, and MIX operations for each pair of channels.
16 simultaneous modulation outputs covering a wide span of complexity in 10HP.