Overlooked Module #18: ARC (Analogue Research) D6

video upload by Musical Miscellany & More

"I met the folks from Analogue Research (ARC) at Knobcon 14 (2026) and really liked this 3hp module. It's like a logic module met a random source. The D6 is basically the electronic equivalent of a die roll.

Learn more about the D6 here: https://www.analogueresearch.com/prod...

Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/musicalmisce...
Join my Discord Community: / discord"

"ARC’s D6 is a 3hp pseudorandom logic generator that models rolling a six sided die. When a pulse is sent to the 'roll' input, one of the six outputs goes high (approx 6v). This logic high is held until another pulse is sent to 'roll.'

The D6 is a built on 20th century CMOS technology - no code, no firmware, no microcontrollers. Output 3 and 4 have a higher chance of being rolled than outputs 1, 2 and 5, 6. It is possible that the same output is rolled on consecutive pulse inputs, in which case no change to the high logic output will be noted.

Add indeterminacy to your patches, or several D6 can be patched in an analogue computer to automate dice rolling for tabletop roleplaying games like Shadowrun... I guess?"

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INFIDEL low fidelity DIY modular synth from DenverSynthLabs

video upload by manmade madman

"INFIDEL shown here put through its paces.
This is an intentionally non-musical demo to show the power and sound of INFIDEL. It gets loud. If you don't like it, good.
The point is, you've never heard a VST sound like this, ever.
What we make hasn't existed before.
So, stop chasing other people's sound, and make something that's your very own for a change.
With roughly 1/3rd of the available modules shown here, you can tweak until morning.
Just make sure you get some sleep sometimes!

store.denversynth.com"



"INFIDEL is a full modular synth built around one idea: every module runs its own cheap sign-magnitude DAC, at its own sample rate and bit depth, so the whole rack can sound exactly as broken as you want it to — on purpose. You don't have to earn that sound with a soldering iron or a twenty-minute boot sequence. Hit INIT FULL and you've got a working 47-module, 81-cable patch across four buses — lead, drone, texture, drums — before you've turned a single knob. Hit EZ on any module and it rolls a new setting that's checked to never go silent. Cables snap to the nearest free jack, drop onto an existing cable to insert a module inline, or swap one module for another while keeping every cable that matches by name. It's fast to get a sound out of, and it stays deep — a 53-module library and KEY-locked lo-fi clocking mean there's always one more place to take it.

- 53 user modules across Sources, Filters, Effects, Drums, Utilities and Logic — including an 8-model VCF BANK (CS-80, IR3109, SSM2044, CEM3320, SSM2040, STEINER, EMS DIODE, WASP) and effects ported from SpringBoy, BucketBoy, Thermion and Ironwall

- Every module runs its own cheap lo-fi DAC — RATE 1–32 kHz, BITS 2–16 — and KEY locks a module's clock to the last note played, so the grit tracks pitch instead of just buzzing underneath it

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Darkglass Electronics Axioma: Monophonic Synthesizer

video upload by Darkglass Electronics

"An axiom needs no proof and a voice needs no permission to change history. Both are driven by conviction. Axioma, our long awaited mono synth plugin for the Anagram platform, is made of it.

More on Axioma: https://www.darkglass.com/en-eu/pages...
More on Anagram: https://www.darkglass.com/en-eu/produ...

Track:
Composed, interpreted, and produced by Sebastian Pinilla:
Soundcloud: / kylo-rec
Instagram: / kylorec

Co-writer: Jesse Mäläskä
Instagram: / jessemalaska
Youtube: / @jessemalaska"
Anagram´s AXIOMA Synth! Deep dive

video upload by Bass Fox aka Quincas Moreira

"Everything you need to know about the long awaited, highly anticipated new SYNTH block for the Darkglass Anagram!"

"Inspired by vintage synthesizers, our monophonic synthetizer plugin for Anagram lets you explore the sound of blending different wave shapes, mixing two oscillators, sub oscillator, shape the overall response with multiple filters, and turn notes into repeating patterns with the arpeggiator."

Control Your Vintage Synths with INARA | Knobcon 2026

video upload by CatSynth TV

"We get a tour of the new INARA controller series from Five Lined Engineering at Knobcon 2026. These special-purpose controllers are designed to expose the deep parameter sets of vintage synthesizers as physical controls and MIDI CCs for use in live performance and with DAWS. There are three current models, supporting the Korg DW-8000, Yamaha DX7 family, and Roland Alpha Juno, respectively.

For more info, please visit https://www.fivelined.com/"

Patreon: / catsynth | https://shop.catsynth.com | https://ko-fi.com/catsynth

Monomodule -1.0.1-Beta (Elektron Monomachine emulator)

video upload by Ticco Ross

"Another different emulator. It emulates the sound engine of one monophonic voice per track. All the various machines and effects featured in the Monomachine are present.
Private Beta. Soon in your DAW of choice.
The only file needed is the original Elektron_SFX6-60_OS1.32B.syx you can get @ Elektrons official web"

From the developer: "I'm the developer of this, it is currently only released in the form of a private, invite-only beta, but the full public release coming next week will be free and open source."

9/15/26 (2050 test) 2050 + MFB OSC-02 & dual ADSR + Ladik S-143 & U-202 + CXM 1978 + MIDIVERB II

video upload by Cfpp0

"9/15/26 (2050 test) Jakub Jasiński 2050 + MFB OSC-02 & dual ADSR + Ladik S-143 & U-202 + CXM 1978 + Alesis MIDIVERB II

If you came for metallic falcon screams, jump to 1:19. This unbranded 2050 module was made custom by Jakub Jasiński for the previous owner. It’s plugged in a 4ms pod, but it’s getting 5v DC externally. It’s not a clone, but it seems to have been based on the Zerosum Inertia 6550-99, which is probably the greatest voltage controlled oscillator of all time. The Ladik S-143 (through the U-202 and multiplied) is sequencing the 2050 tune input and pulse input, as well as the MFB OSC-2 CV1. The triangle on the OSC-2 is running to the sync input on the 2050. An envelope from the MFB dual ADSR is running to the 2050 drive input. The delay is from the Peavey DDL-3 and the reverb was blended on CXM 1978."

Meet param8 - a Small Customizable MIDI Controller Designed for Ableton Live

video upload by KrazyBaldhead

"param8 is a small MIDI controller designed for Ableton Live with a different idea"

via param8

Control. See. Perform.

Features

Visual Feedback & Precise Control

See parameter names, values, and button states instantly on the dual 256×64 OLED high-contrast displays.

The 8 push-encoders always stay in sync with your DAW, so your controls are always correctly positioned with no pickup issues. Press to toggle buttons, turn to adjust values.

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Build Your Own Audio Plugins, No Code Required, With Amorph AI Driven Plugin Platform

Build Your Own Audio Plugins, No Code (Amorph v1 Beta) video upload by Artists in DSP

"Amorph is a free audio plugin. You build, play, and share your own tools inside the DAW — the sound, the knobs, and the code sit on your computer.

This is the full how-to. Install. The window. Three ways to build. Remote. Lock. Share.

A patch can be an instrument, an effect, or a MIDI processor.

Download Amorph v1 Beta:
https://artistsindsp.gumroad.com/l/am...

Getting started:
https://artistsindsp.com/get-started-..."

Modular Town : a synth hidden in a town (Amorph)

video upload by Bungle Society

"Modular Town — a synthesizer town, drawn by hand.

Modular Town is a single Amorph instrument: a hand-drawn village you scroll through, where every knob, step-sequencer and jack is mounted on a building facade wired by hand, just like real hardware. 🏭 Filter (Cutoff/Resonance) on the factoryVCO1 / VCO2 on the vending machinesDetune and Attack/Decay/Release tucked into the houses🥁 A 16-step drum machine (Drums Volume, Accent, Drive) running through its own sequencer🍜 Ramen Bass Shop, a mono bass synth with its own 16-step piano roll, playable live or sequenced. A day/night cycle you flip from a shop sign. Delay (Time/Feedback/Mix) on a canal-side wall. A full patch panel route LFO, ENV and random modulation across the whole village with real cables✨ Reverb, aged-paper texture and film grain for a sketchbook feel"

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Free Round Robin VST Sampler - Robin Control Lite

conduit.dsp - Robin Control Lite - Randomized Sampler Audio Plugin Prototype Features
video upload by conduit dsp

via the maker:

"I made a free VST3/AU plugin called Robin Control Lite. It's a simple monophonic round robin style-sampler that features controlled randomization for all parameters. It's a simple concept, but I created it primarily to facilitate the sample randomization for sound design projects.


Here's a link to the product and the following are some bullet point features:

Dead Simple UX/UI: Every MIDI key triggers the current sample pool at its natural pitch, with controls designed for quick, intuitive adjustments.

True Monophonic Round Robin Playback: Samples cycle intelligently in series or random order so no two hits ever sound identical — essential for natural-sounding SFX and percussion

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Samplotron Keypad Version – DIY ESP32 Sampler & Loop Player | Live Demo

video upload by Illegal State Of Mind

"Meet the keypad version of Samplotron — my DIY hardware sampler and loop player built around the ESP32.

In this demo I’m using Samplotron to trigger samples and loops live. Some of the sounds are my own recordings, while others come from publicly available sample sources.

What you hear is the direct audio output from Samplotron — no post-processing, EQ, compression or additional effects were added to the recorded audio track.

You can also see another one of my DIY projects in action: a small oscilloscope I built, displaying the audio waveform in real time.

Want one? Build your own!
Full interactive build guide:
https://jakubthedeveloper.github.io/S...

Source code and project files:
https://github.com/jakubthedeveloper/...

Hashtags:
#Samplotron #DIYSampler #HardwareSampler #Sampler #LoopPlayer #ESP32 #ESP32Audio #DIYSynth #SynthDIY #DIYMusic #ElectronicMusic #SampleBasedMusic #LiveSampling #MusicTechnology #AudioElectronics #EmbeddedAudio #OpenSourceHardware #OpenSource #DIYElectronics #Oscilloscope #HardwareMusic #ExperimentalMusic"

Korg Prophecy emulation playing a couple patches from Prodigy's Fat of the Land

video upload by Joe Landers

B52: 303 Growler
B00: Space Adventure

https://github.com/joelanders/profligacy

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ROM EXPANSION – For EPROM Drum Machines by DUCKTRONIC

DUCKTRONIC has made a ROM Expansion currently compatible with Oberheim DX and Linn drum machines. You can find the user manuals for each on a Google drive here.

The following is the intro in the DX manual: "The ROM EXPANSION extends the Oberheim DX with 104 sounds, most of which originate from the early 1980s. This makes it possible to recreate the sound of drum machines from that era. It is also possible to save custom-assembled soundsets and load them again at a later time.

Installation requires the CONTROL BOARD with the "Sound Control" software, the CONTROL PANEL, and six EPROM BOARDS with EPROMs. If only individual instruments are to be modified, fewer EPROM BOARDS are required accordingly.

Installing the ROM EXPANSION does not require any mechanical modifications or irreversible changes. The original state of the Oberheim DX can therefore be restored at any time."

You can find a YouTube playlist with demos here.

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Behold DigiTaur - a DIY digital bass synthesizer

video upload by Mute State

"A teensy based digital bass synth heavily inspired by Moog Minitaur, with a few twists of my own."

Note Mute Synth brought us the Semiotic Sequencer – Online Text Based Sequencer just posted below.

Phantom Exposure Interphase Cartograph Sound Demo - Casio VZ range emulation expanded

video upload by Runningonair

"In this video I test out the new Interphase Cartograph from Phantom Exposure.

https://phantomexposure.org/instrumen...

This synth is based on iPD synthesis as used by the Casio VZ range, but it has been significantly expanded."

Music/Support: New Album, BandCamp, Spotify, Merch, PayPal

Interphase Cartograph

"Interactive phase distortion, the Casio VZ engine rebuilt and then extended — two modules per line, one bending or ring-modulating the other, with AM and through-zero FM added.

Interactive phase distortion — iPD — is the technique behind Casio’s VZ-series synthesizers of the late 1980s. Rather than mixing raw oscillator waveforms, it pairs two sound-generating modules into a line and lets one shape the other: bending its phase, or multiplying into it as a ring modulator. The character sits between subtractive and FM — glassy, bell-like, vocal or metallic, and equally capable of plain tones when the interaction stays subtle.

Classic reproduces the original four-line, eight-module architecture with eight iPD waveforms and eight-stage envelopes. Extended adds two more lines, twelve modules, a sixteen-waveform bank, and two interactions the hardware never had: amplitude modulation and through-zero FM. The two are switchable from the header at any time.

Around the engine sit a sixteen-route modulation matrix, a bipolar pitch envelope, patch vibrato and tremolo, an arpeggiator, microtonal tuning with historical temperaments, six performance macros, unison, two LFOs and a randomiser that can roll a whole patch or mutate the one you have. The display is drawn in an OLED style with cyan and amber themes."

AE Machine | Architecture For Drums That Never Repeat & Oxide Virtual Tape Processor

video upload by Emiliano

"One practical note: listen to this on monitors or proper headphones. Most of what the machine does lives in the low end and in the stereo field, and laptop speakers will simply delete it. Loud is not necessary, full range is."

This one was spotted and sent in via Ivan Trajkovic aka deejayiwan. There are 21 videos in the playlist above. They mainly focus on AE Machine as a whole, but video 7 is focused on Oxide. You'll find the full video descriptions for the first and seventh videos further below. You can find full details on AE Machine at https://www.peamarte.it/ae - Oxide in chapter 52 of the user manual.

In short, AE Machine (estimated release date of October 2) consists of:

"Eleven synthesis voices built from scratch at sample level, five samplers, two free-running pads. A sequencer where a 16 × 16 Markov matrix decides which step may follow which, a note sieve that re-orchestrates the pattern when you transpose it, a chaotic modulation matrix reaching 271 parameters, morphing between any two presets, and a stem recorder that writes twenty-six files in one press. It runs in Max/MSP 9 on macOS and Windows, and playing it requires no paid Max license: an unlicensed copy of Max opens and runs the machine in full.

This is not commercial software in the ordinary sense. It is my working method, the environment I built night after night for my own music, packaged so that you can play it. When you get it, you are getting research: the reading, the listening, the failed versions, the decisions. The manual is a hundred pages and it is already here, whole, free to read. Trust your ears over any paragraph in it."

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Classic vibes and analog mojo in 6 drum modules from GRB Instruments

video upload by bajjjan records

"6 New GRB Instruments drums for eurorack.
The modular analog drum machine with a classic vibes is almost ready!
There are 11 patterns/jams in this video."

GRB Basic Kick & GRB Hi-Hat || Modular DEMO

video upload by bajjjan records

CYMBAL

Sound is synthesized by a system of oscillators based on Schmitt triggers, that recreates the classic, complex sound of an analog cymbal. The sound is synthesized by a system of oscillators based on Schmitt triggers, operating at different frequencies. The mixing of these signals creates the rich, chaotic, and metallic spectrum.

You have direct control over the resulting texture. The TUNE knob shifts the overall frequency range of the metallic noise, while DECAY sets the length of the sound's wash and sizzle. The TONE control further shapes the character of the ringing, allowing you to fine-tune the brightness and timbre. This combination of controls lets you sculpt everything from a short, bright metallic click to a long, decaying noise.

For dynamic performance, the module features an ACC input (0V to +5V) to modulate the accent level and is triggered via the standard GATE input (+5V to +12V). The final, complex cymbal sound is available at the OUT jack.

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Catoff LFG. Variable Analog LFO.

video upload by temaniak - click CC for subtitles once the video begins.

Low Frequency Generator

Advanced LFO with five standard waves (triangle, sine, inverted sawtooth, sawtooth, square) and two modified waves based on triangle and sine the morphing of which can be controlled by CV.

Frequency range: 0,1Hz-100Hz (X1 range mode) / 0,01Hz-10Hz (X0,1 range mode)
Output signal amplitude depending upon the position of the BIAS control:
BIAS= 0: -5v/+5v
BIAS=-5: -10v/0v
BIAS=+5: 0v/+10v
CV inputs responds: -10v/+10v
EOC (End Of Circle) signal level: +5v / 1ms
Trig and Reset inputs threshold: 4v

Controls and sockets:
RATE Pot - Waves Frequency
BIAS Pot - Polarity offset from zero
TURN Pot - Morphing of two modified waves
Waves outputs 3,5mm jack sockets: triangle, sine, inverted sawtooth, sawtooth, square and 2 modified waves
EOC socket: End Of Circle impulse
Input 3,5mm jack sockets:
Trig - resets the wave and holds the reset when the gate is on
Reset - resets the wave and immediately resumes. Сan work as Sync input

Twang CPP - Crossfader-Polarizer-Panner

video upload by temaniak - click CC for subtitles once the video begins.

"Универсальный аудио - CV стерео-процессор от Twang."

"A versatile stereo audio-to-CV processor from Twang."

Crossfader/Polarizer/Panner with a twist.

CPP is a powerful processor for audio, but it also can be used with CV signals. It’s a great tool to work with a stereo field particulary and with a sound design in general. It can be a multitrack bus or individual panner. For small systems it can be end-of-chain mixing tool with vc crossfaders, vc panners and VCA’s.

The module consists of 4 sections: 2xCPP, Mid/Side, 2xVCA.
The first two channels are identical and the module is named after them. We have two signal inputs going to the crossfader, controlled with the knob and cv input. Additionally, there is a handy attenuverter to make cv control easier. After crossfader the signal goes to polarizer, which is actually a bipolar VCA and can be used as classic amplifier, ring modulator or inverter. It can be bypassed symply by routing the signal with switch directly to panner, then it can work independently. There is a dedicated input C for it. Thus we can get 3 input mixer inside one channel. In addition, it has 5V offset switch wich can be useful while processing a cv signals. The final stage is panner. It also has cv input and send our signal to sum in stereo.

The second channel is identical to the first one.

The third section is a “secret weapon” of stereo sound design – Mid/side encoder-decoder. L and R inputs are transforming to Mid and Side signals and then can be transformed to wide stereo field. There is no knobs to control this, but there a lot of ways to use it with other on board sections or with other VCA, VCF or FX modules.

The last fourth channel is a pair of VCA’s. There is a signal input, cv input and signal output. Both are the same and have level control knobs.

Finally, all input signals are summing to master output with deficated level control knob. If we use a channel’s individual output, it will be subtracted from the main mix.

Before Void Trigonometry

video upload by bajjjan records

Timeline:
Introduction — 0:00
Functions Demo — 0:56
Sample Stereo Movement — 6:42
One Shaper For Two Voices — 7:21
Trigonometry On Drums — 10:18
Two Simple Voices — 12:23
Stereo Distortion & Textures — 14:07
Folded Sine Bass — 15:08
Trigonometry On Drums 2 — 17:41
Heavy Atmospheric Distortion — 19:37
One More Jam Session — 21:05
Drone Rhythmic Shaping — 23:51

"Unique multi-output Gilbert-style sine shaper. The shaper offers wave shaping, distortion, folding, phase modulation including through-zero, and imitation stereo. These effects take the sound into West Coast territory. Shaper shematic from NCS MSK-13 project."

Gilded Synthesizer Sound Demo

video upload by GraveyardWifi

"This is a diy analog digital 8-voice paraphonic synthesizer I designed and built over the past year. It features external midi control capabilities as well and an integrated keyboard.

More information on the circuit and build process can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14EuB...

All audio is captured directly from the synthesizer through an M-Audio profire 2626 interface and has no post processing aside from gain matching."

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