He Turned His Car into a Drum Machine! | Android Auto Sequencer

video upload by HAGIWO

"I built a drum sequencer that runs on my car's Android Auto display.
Now I can make beats right from the dashboard!
Made possible with Android Auto Maker.

Vibe-coded with OpenAI Codex (GPT-6.1 Sol, High).
Built as an Android Auto developer app, featuring touchscreen controls and audio playback through the car's speakers.

For safety reasons, the app cannot be operated while driving.
This app is a technical proof of concept and will not be distributed."

DIY Polyphonic Desktop Analog Synthesizer Demo

video upload by Chris Synths

"Hi all! This is a (no-talking) demo of a DIY 6-voice desktop analog synthesizer I have been working on.

The hardware of each voice features two SSI 2131 VCOs, an SSI 2144 filter, a high pass filter, a wave folder, and ring mod.

All voice circuitry was made with SSI chips, op-amps, OTAs, and discrete components.

There is one effect, an 8-stage analog phaser.

There is an ST microcontroller for MIDI, voice control, display driving, front panel scanning, etc. Control voltages are produced by a DAC80501, as well as by the ST."

Behringer Open Source IGNITE 64-channel Multi-track Sequencer Incoming

via GitHub

There is a Creator in every human being. Our mission is to empower those who have not and cannot.

Source code for the Behringer IGNITE 64-channel multi-track sequencer.

Key features

64-channel multi-track sequencer with a song, scene, track and pattern structure

Patterns of up to 16 bars with 16 steps per bar, scenes of up to 200 bars, 96 PPQN timing

Real-time recording, undo, fill, solo/skip, gang and sculpt functions

Transpose control and up to 10 user-defined scales

Internal General MIDI sound engine

5 MIDI DIN in/out pairs, USB MIDI, and USB host MIDI for up to 5 devices

MIDI clock sync, MIDI Machine Control and remote control

8 CV and 8 Gate jacks with calibration, plus sync in/out

Wi-Fi connectivity

Release status

This repository contains the IGNITE application, its audio engine and hardware protocol, and the Buildroot tree for the Linux image. Material that could not be redistributed was removed, so some parts need your own replacements before they build (see the README in each folder). There is no official firmware release here yet.

Front panel
Touchscreen
16 RGB step pads, each with its own encoder
8 assignable knobs (A–H) and a jog wheel
ROW and BAR encoders
Transport, song/scene/track/pattern, and edit buttons
USB-A port (5 V, 1 A) with a USB STOP button

Bitbox Mk2 Custom Firmware Overview

video upload by Ville Walveranta

"I created a custom patch for the official 2.3.4 firmware that adds a screen saver, speed change without pitch change, vertical waveform zoom, and an easy way to reset parameters to their defaults."

Additional details via the developer:

"I’ve put together a free, unofficial customization of 1010music Bitbox MkII firmware 2.3.4, adding a few features I’ve wanted on my own module. The customized version identifies itself as 2.3.4+c.

What’s added:

Vertical waveform zoom: pinch/spread vertically to adjust waveform height from 25–3200%. This makes quiet samples easier to see and lets you shrink loud waveforms. Horizontal zoom still works normally. A stationary two-finger tap restores 100% vertical zoom and horizontal fit. This only changes the display, not the audio.

Optional screen saver: a black screen after 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes of inactivity. It’s disabled by default, under Tools → Disp. Playback continues while blanked. The first touch, button press, or encoder movement only wakes the display, preventing accidental edits.

Optional MIDI/CV-trigger wake: choose MIDI, CV triggers, or both. MIDI clock and active sensing are excluded. Unlike physical wake controls, the first incoming musical event still performs its normal action.

Pitch-preserving Speed: 50–200% playback speed, with a dedicated SPEED dial on the Sample-mode LFO/Spd page. It supports live adjustment and the normal INFO modulation editor, including LFO/CV modulation. At 100%, it uses native playback.

Double-tap dial defaults: double-tap a numeric dial to restore its default base value. Modulation sources and amounts remain intact.

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Prepping for tour; experiment combining Death LFO with Proximity Feedback Machine (Optical Theremin)

video upload by Tim Kaiser

Rainbow Looper, a looper for Ableton Move

video upload by KrazyBaldhead

"I created an 8 track looper for Move with the RNBO Move Takeover

Download it here: https://github.com/KBLiveSolutions/ra...

#abletonmove #RNBO #cycling74 #cycling74rnbo #ableton #livelooping #musicproducers #fenderrhodes"

How it works

The 8 loopers

Each looper is controlled by a column of 4 pads (bottom to top):

Red — Rec
Green — Play
White — Stop
Rainbow color — Select (also opens the looper's parameter page)
The first looper sets the base loop length. Every other looper is quantized to it: recording can start freely at any time, but playback always launches on a multiple of the first looper's length, so all 8 loopers stay in sync.

Step sequencing

Each looper has its own step pattern, controlled with Move's step buttons. Turning a step off mutes the looper's output at that point in the loop — the volume envelope for muting is shaped by the Attack and Release parameters.

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TyCoon Sequencer Part 4: Transpose

video upload by TheAnalogmonster

All parts

DIY Eurorack Modules: Tin Man Synths - Music China 2026

video upload by sonicstate

"We spoke to Andrew from Tin Man Synths about his range of DIY Eurorack Modules, a set of simple through-hole designs built around accessible analogue and digital circuits.

The context was China's DIY synth scene, where importing synth brands and beginner kits can be difficult or expensive. Tin Man Synths focuses partly on making local DIY resources more available, alongside carrying other brands.

The range includes a transposing sequencer, which allows one sequence to transpose another, and clocking the two parts out of sync creates a longer rolling pattern of 32 to 64 steps. Other modules include dual attack-release envelopes, a side-chain VCA, matrix mixer, output stages, a semitone voltage-offset processor, the Radius 2164-based filter, voltage-controlled slew, a 40106 VCO, a voltage-controlled LFO, and Daisy Seed-based delay and granular effects.

The modules use through-hole construction, with bare PCBs around $10 and full kits around 400–500 RMB, or roughly $50–60.

Availability is currently mainly China and Southeast Asia."

“AI Is Theft”, Unless It Benefits You

video upload by Scott's Synth Stuff

Note, some of his points are how many feel about Behringer making "clones", especially of gear currently in production.

"Musicians attack anyone who uses AI in music, then cheer when someone vibe-codes new firmware for their synth. Is that a double standard?

In one weekend in October, three different aftermarket firmwares hit the $60 M-Vave FM1. One made it a virtual analog synth, one a four-track groovebox, and one a Roland-style drum machine. Most of them were built by non-programmers using AI tools like Claude Code. Then M-Vave released an official open-source SDK, and Akai and Behringer are moving the same way.

In this video I look at where the creative community draws its line on AI, and why that line seems to move depending on who gets hurt:

Why AI-coded firmware gets cheers while AI music gets attacked
AI code is trained on decades of human developers’ work, just as AI music is trained on artists
AI clones of the Adobe suite, and illegal Hydrasynth emulators that run stolen ROMs
The real risks: a bricked MPC2000, DSP timing bugs, possible malware and abandoned projects
Why manufacturers are now handing firmware development to their users
My own AI use, including my thumbnails, and where I draw the line

This video isn’t against AI and it isn’t for it. It’s about being consistent. Where is your line, and does it still hold when the thing on offer is free?"

A Simple Complex VCO

video upload by Dylan B.

0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Feature Overview
4:51 - Background
5:39 - Outro Jam

ACID FREQ synth

video upload by e j

"9V DIY ACID SYNTH! 🧪🎛️

A little box of squelchy, unpredictable acid goodness, perfect for synth DIY workshops, electronic music enthusiasts, and curious sonic explorers!

Features:

PLL-based VCO (square wave)
Squeaky, squelchy VCF
Random shift-register-based CV sequencer
Built-in VCA

Controls:

Frequency and glide
Filter cutoff and resonance
VCA control (modulated or fully open)

All powered by a humble 9V battery, ready to unleash some wonderfully weird sonic adventures.

Twist the knobs, push the resonance, embrace the randomness...

ACIIIIIIIIID! 🧪🔊"

Can you build a playable synthesizer in a single afternoon?

video upload by Illegal State Of Mind

"Can you build a playable synthesizer in a single afternoon? Here's my attempt: a DIY synth built from a basic ESP32 I had lying around.

At its heart is a DCO: a digitally controlled oscillator. The waveform isn't generated in code. It comes straight from the PWM outputs, while the code only sets the pitch, pulse width and modulation. The result is a fat, raw, monophonic sound with accurate notes and no tuning headaches.

How this ESP32 synth works:
• Two PWM signals from GPIO 18 and 19
• A simple resistor mixer and a capacitor on the output
• MIDI input built around a 6N137 optocoupler, three resistors and a socket (powered from the ESP32 board)
• Pitch Bend and Modulation over MIDI
• Pulse width and detune of the second oscillator controlled by knobs

What this synthesizer doesn't have (yet): an envelope, polyphony and a filter. They can all be added later in the analog part of the signal path, and I'll start working on them soon."

TyCoon Sequencer Part 3: Quantizing

video upload by TheAnalogmonster

"Short demo of quantizing CV sequences and invoking additional MIDI out."

See TheAnalogmonster label below for addtional posts.

Oral Histories - Warren Burt

video upload by Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS)

"Warren Burt arrived in Australia in 1975 and the landscape of Australian electronic and experimental music changed forever. An encyclopaedic repository of works and theories in the field - Warren has been educating and inspiring generations for half a century. His work spans almost all conceivable genres and modalities ranging from his Aardvarks series of pieces (that are also devised instruments) to works exploring incompetence as a paradigm and even compositions designed to propagate in gasses other than oxygen! Since his arrival he has been an almost constant agitator and organiser, creating new performance contexts and ways to educate people both within and outside of the institutions that have been lucky enough to have him on staff.

About Oral Histories:

Storytelling is an essential part of what it means to be human. When we share our stories we create space for real exchange and a deeper sense of empathy toward one another. At MESS we are conscious that so much of what has happened in Australian electronic music was never written down. Even when things are documented formally in books and journals - that very process can create an orthodox history which is inevitably incomplete and riddled with unconscious bias. So what we are doing is sitting down with the people who have made a lasting contribution to the form and asking them to tell us about their experiences in their own words.

The Oral Histories project was funded initially by a local histories grant from the Public Record Office of Victoria.

Filmed and produced by Jonnine Nokes

Find out more at http://mess.foundation"

Is Behringer Responding to the FM-1 Revolution?

video upload by PhilipsKnobs

"behringer has put the KICK source code on github, and it got me wondering if the FM-1 has helped kick off something bigger in the synth world.

in this video, i take a look at what they've actually released and why i think it's interesting. is open-source software the future of music hardware, or am i reading too much into it?

obviously, we don't know if this has anything to do with the FM-1, but i'd love to hear what you think.

github: https://github.com/MusicTribeOpenSour..."

Behringer's Open Source Synth will Change Everything | THAT SYNTH SHOW

video upload by SYNTH SAMURAI

UGLY MPC by Behringer…does anyone want this?

video upload by SON WU

"A NEW and UGLY MPC, but not made by AKAI! It seems like Behringer has the first prototype of their MPC One clone ready and is asking for your help to bring it to life by open-sourcing the firmware. What do you think about this sampler? And how long will it take until they actually release it?"

"Behringer KICK (BE 0700-AAM)

Source code for the Behringer KICK.

Key features

AI camera for gesture control
Touchscreen
16 RGB pads, 8 banks
Sampler with sample editing, step sequencer and looper
Over 300 built-in effects
4 assignable knobs and a jog wheel
MIDI in/out, USB and 4 CV / Gate jacks"

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Analog Tube Jam - Recodrum + Tube Bass

video upload by Arthur Joly

M-VAVE SMK-37 PRO / Elite Open-Source Firmware｜Workbench & Operation Guide

video upload by M-VAVE

You can find the M-Vave SMK-37 Pro on Amazon.

"🎹 Explore open-source possibilities with the M-VAVE SMK-37 PRO / Elite MIDI keyboards!

• Open-source workbench interface overview
• Open-source firmware flashing tutorial
• SMK-37 PRO / Elite operation demo
• Projects & Tones feature overview

🌐 M-VAVE Open-Source Workbench:
https://open.m-vave.com/"

Wing Pinger: Meng Qi Music - Beijing Modular 26

video upload by sonicstate

"Meng Qi *from Meng Qi Music gave us a look at *Wing Pinger the new handheld version of the resonant analogue instrument. He explained that the earlier 2019 version used a larger wooden enclosure - the new version has a smaller metal enclosure with a touchscreen/keyboard.

Wing Pinger uses two analogue resonating filters which can ping each other through logic circuits including a shift register, and they support direct frequency modulation. The touchscreen supports fast response, gesture control, latching and note panning. A Q envelope changes the response from pad-like to more percussive sounds. It also includes tape emulation, noise controls and an internal delay with the filters in the feedback loop.

Availability is expected around November or December, with pricing hopefully around a couple of hundred US dollars.

More Info: https://www.mengqimusic.com"

Custom MIDI Controllers: Entropy Music - Beijing Modular 26

video upload by sonicstate

I believe this is the first post to feature Entropy Music, not to be confused with Entropy & Sons.

"We spoke to Muyang from Entropy Music about their range of *Custom MIDI Controllers*, including a compact motorised fader unit and several bespoke controller examples.

They explained that the range includes ready-to-ship products as well as one-off builds. The four-channel motorised fader controller supports MCU and HUI protocols, so it works with Pro Tools, Logic and other compatible DAWs. It also includes a system mode with 16 banks, and it can control orchestral library expression and automation.

The custom side of the range allows different controls, layouts and enclosure styles to be combined. Examples included magnetic connections, button-based controllers, a GLM controller for mapping functions in Genelec’s GLM software, and VU meter modules. The meters can display audio level, MIDI CC values or other data, including OSC where required.

A web editor assigns parameters and stores them in memory. Entropy Music also offers pocket-sized controllers, including models used with iPad live sets. Products ship internationally, with custom builds made in small quantities using 3D printing, wood, stainless steel or aluminium.

More Info: https://entropymusic.cc"

POSIN: 'One-Stop' fabrication - Beijing Modular 26

video upload by sonicstate

Note this apepars to be the first post on the site to feature POSIN.

"POSIN offers a complete 'one-stop shop' service for manufacture of electronic products, covering PCB production, metal panels, FR4 panels, SMT assembly, enclosures, full assembled samples and printing.

The workflow starts with the customer supplying design files. Production takes place in-house rather than being split between separate suppliers. Small prototype quantities are supported, so a design can go through testing before moving into larger production runs. Wendy said a typical sample or prototype might be turned around in about a month, including PCB work, panel production, engineering checks and testing.

More Info: http://www.posinpcb.com/"