"An ambient lofi machine on 64 of its author's own pedal recordings: three synths, each with a piano roll, eight patterns, its own reverb, delay or tape echo and motion; huge shared reverbs, colour and old media over the whole mix; a chord machine and an arpeggiator, sixteen scenes, a song mode"
"Introducing a Sequencer that set's your musical spirit free, no menu diving, no mouse clicking, just pure unadulterated Jamming. Join Patrick as he gets into this incredible new Behringer Sequencer."
"Bring the power of one of history's most legendary sequencers into your modern setup with the 1601 Sequencer from Behringer, a flexible CV and MIDI sequencer with desktop or Eurorack functionality. This sequencer maintains the same layout and versatile performance capabilities as the original while expanding its design to interact with MIDI and Eurorack CV ranges. There are sixteen steps in total which can be used sequentially, or in a split mode for functionality as two discrete eight-step sequencers. Each step of the sequencer provides a three-position switch which correlates to the three corresponding CV gate outputs for easily crafting multi-part sequences. An additional gate output has been included, which adds AND logic to the first switch position, allowing you to create accents for your sequences without any additional programming required. Modulate your sequences in real time with the FM and Pulse Width sliders and CV inputs, allowing you to affect the sequencer speed and gate length respectively. There are a variety of CV outputs to choose from to get the most out of your sequences, including both quantized and unquantized CV outputs, which can be used simultaneously. The unquantized version outputs raw 0V to 10V depending on the position of the slider on the current step, while the quantized output produces a two-octave voltage range for use with 1V/Oct inputs. Both the quantized and unquantized outputs are split into A and B sections, giving you the same exact functionality when splitting the sequencer into dual eight-step operation.
Included with the 1601 is a powered enclosure for desktop use, but it can be removed and installed in a Eurorack case as an 80hp module for seamless integration into your system. In addition to the 5-pin MIDI output on the front panel, the enclosure includes 5-pin MIDI input and thru, along with a USB jack for sequencing your USB-MIDI compatible gear and software. If you crave the hands-on playability of an analog sequencer, the 1601 Sequencer from Behringer brings the best of the past and present into one versatile sequencer.
1601 Sequencer Features
Three-position switches per-step with individual gate outputs for each position Manual or CV Step and Reset controls for hands-on performance 16-step or dual 8-step sequencer operation Discrete quantized and unquantized sequencer CV outputs Quantized jacks output 2-octave pitch range, and 0v to 10V unquantized Inputs for running external CV through the internal quantizer Clock frequency, FM, and pulse width controls Internal, USB, MIDI or external CV trigger clock functionality Both Sequential and Random sequencer behavior Onboard one-to-three CV multiple Expansive variety of CV inputs and outputs MIDI in, out, and thru jacks Functional as a standalone Eurorack module (enclosure included) Product Details
Eurorack module Width: 80hp Depth: Includes: module, enclosure, PSU Current draw: MIDI: 5-pin input, output, and thru Current draw: USB: MIDI input and output Current draw: Dimensions: 3.4" x 16.7" x 5.3" / 86.9 x 424.4 x 135.6 mm Current draw: Weight: 3.75 lbs (1.7 kg) Current draw: Module current draw: 240mA @ +12V, 240mA @ -12V, 0mA @ +5V Current draw: Power: 12V DC, 1000ma center-positive (PSU included)"
"Phonemer is a speech computer for the Eurorack format. It reimagines classic text-to-speech technology, featuring a real-time synthesis engine, algorithms for shaping intonation and emotion, a built-in pronunciation dictionary of 144,000 words, and a powerful, versatile effects suite. It offers exceptional flexibility, with CV inputs and macro knobs that allow a single modulation source to control up to eight destinations—each with its own dedicated attenuverter. Complete with USB keyboard support, a refined audio path, an array of intuitive physical controls, and a smooth, immersive GUI—all integrated with buttons and encoders—Phonemer is designed for a truly engaging and fluid creative experience!"
"Ambient as a living window: cherry petals on a river, koi in a pond, fireflies under a real moon, and every movement a note. Set it down and let it play; the keys play along, the knobs shape the scene."
"Today I'm pumped to share in the launch day festivities for the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Iota - a pedal shaped synth with big sound and bigger features. Hang out while I go through the controls and then do a play through and exploration!"
"Iota is a tone generator, which is to say, a synth for your pedalboard. It is designed to make playing easy: regardless of your skill level or familiarity with synthesizers, you’ll quickly be making fun sounds, and running them through all your favorite effects. Pick the character of your sound, some notes, and some parameters for how Iota moves through those notes, then set it in motion. Music theory? Sound design? Fret not, just have some fun!
Iota has:
Presets
Expression control over every knob
MIDI control over everything in the pedal, including tempo via MIDI clock and root note via MIDI notes
Mono or stereo output
Aux footswitch for manual triggering of notes, tap tempo, or preset switching
Controls include:
A bank of 12 pushbuttons to set your root note, scale intervals, or one of 12 onboard presets
Osc, Noise, Octave and Volume to shape the core sound
Rate, Range, and Direction to control the speed, range, and direction Iota moves through its sequence of notes
Skip and Hold to create random or patterned skips within the sequence
Bend, Glide and Swing to add a bit more interest to the way the notes move
Env Length, Shape, and Mix to set the way each note swells in or out
No talking, no tutorial—just sound, evolving patterns, and a few turns of the knobs.
I built Crown out of a dream to create a musical companion for my guitar jams: something that could suggest ideas, explore different styles, and surprise me with just a handful of controls. Its five Crowns shape different aspects of the music, turning a few simple choices into a wide range of possibilities.
An Arduino Nano handles the knobs, displays, and controls, while a Teensy handles the sequencing, musical logic, and generation of notes and drums. The instrument is still a working prototype, evolving with each experiment.
The visuals come from PHOSPHOR, an audio-reactive app I created specifically for this purpose.
An experimental generative synthesizer that creates melodies, rhythms and textures for spontaneous musical exploration.
Overview
I created Crown out of a dream to build a musical companion for my guitar jams—something I could switch on, explore, and play along with. I wanted to make creating music feel intuitive, with just a few controls to shape the sound and discover different musical styles without getting lost in menus or endless settings. That idea became the five Crowns: five distinct musical personalities, each offering a different starting point for improvisation. Crown brings fresh ideas and unexpected turns to a jam, leaving me free to pick up my guitar and follow wherever the music leads.
The Build
Crown is built around two microcontrollers: an Arduino Nano handles the user interface—knobs, displays, controls, and parameter selection—while a Teensy handles the sequencing, musical logic, and generation of notes and drums. This lets the Teensy focus on making music while the Nano keeps everything hands-on and accessible. A future Sampler Extension, based on the Tsunami Super WAV Trigger, will expand Crown’s sound palette with sampled instruments, atmospheric layers, and other recorded sounds.
The Philosophy and why Crown?
I think of the five Crowns as the guiding forces behind the music. Each one is an abstract control that shapes a whole set of musical decisions, letting me explore different styles and moods with just a few gestures. The name comes from that idea of influence: each Crown rules over part of the musical world, and together they give it its character. My goal was to make something I could play by feel, letting a few meaningful choices open the door to unexpected music.
"A Minimoog Model D used by Billy Joel has a new home in the Bob Moog Foundation Archives!
Imagine the melodies, rehearsals, and performances that might be part of its history. Accompanied by a letter signed by Joel confirming its use 'on tour and/or in the studio,' this instrument offers a tangible connection to one of popular music’s most celebrated songwriters and performers.
Collector Eric Crawley generously donated the Minimoog so that more people could enjoy it. After years of playing it and sharing it at synthesizer events, he has entrusted its next chapter to the Bob Moog Foundation. Read more about Billy Joel's Minimoog ➞
Now, you can see it for yourself. Billy Joel’s Minimoog will be on view at the Moogseum November 12-16, 2026, during 'Minimoog Through the Ages,' alongside other remarkable instruments with stories of their own."
"Alecto is a dual-voice analog drum synthesizer combining powerful sound design with polymetric sequencing. Each voice features two oscillators, a noise source, dual filters, and two envelope generators, delivering everything from punchy percussion and deep bass to evolving sonic textures.
Two independent trigger sequencers create complex, ever-shifting rhythmic patterns, while the versatile patchbay and Eurorack compatibility open up endless possibilities for sonic exploration, whether as a standalone instrument or part of a modular system."
"Introducing the RD-765, a Drum Machine that packs a decade of classic Drum Machines into one box. A Hybrid drum machine with 176 drum sounds, sample recording, a 64-step sequencer and a dual-mode analogue filter.
Join Patrick as he jams it up and goes through it's features."
"RD-765 Hybrid drum machine with 176 drum sounds, sample recording, a 64-step sequencer and a dual-mode analogue filter
Classic drum sounds, plus the ones you record yourself.
The groove is nearly there. The kick sits right, but the snare needs a sound nobody else has. With the RD-765, you record that sound yourself and give it a channel in the kit.
176 sounds and your own samples The RD-765 holds 176 drum sounds. Record new samples through the user sampling menu and assign them to an instrument channel. Tune any sample over a range of 24 semitones up or down.
Shape every hit The Wave Designer attack control adds punch to the initial transient. The dual-mode analogue filter runs as low-pass or high-pass, and you can assign it to single voices. A bitcrusher lowers the bit depth of samples when you want grit.
Write patterns your way Play beats in real time or set them step by step, across up to 64 steps. Swing runs from 25 to 75. A per-voice probability setting lets notes come and go, so a pattern keeps moving. Record filter cutoff moves into the pattern as you play. MIDI and USB link the RD-765 to the rest of your setup."
"I've checked out DUB-1 and NACHTFAHRT - here's my take on the idea. The inspiration this time is the 'father of disco', Giovanni Giorgio Moroder.
It's time to relive the futuristic electronic disco sounds of the '70s, '80s and '90s with GIO-1, new firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1. It is generative: it writes music in these styles as it plays. Pick a song, play along on the keys and let the lead answer you, drop in effects, and nudge it in the direction your feelings take you. Try all 9 presets. Feel love and enjoy!
This is at a very early stage (think of it as PRE-Alpha) - although the firmware is installable on the website below I would not recommend it unless you are very experienced. Only TWO FM-1s have had this installed so far - they lived to tell the tale and have since installed other firmware and gone back again to GIO-1. The firmware was built at all stages to try and avoid bricking devices. Your mileage however may vary.
"ECHOFIELD turns short samples into evolving clouds of sound, shimmering textures, strange loops, ambient soundscapes, and much more. It's a different way to explore the FM-1, built for experimentation and making sounds you might not expect from this little device.
In this video, I'll show you how ECHOFIELD works, explore its different granular modes and performance effects, and take a look at the companion browser app and built-in emulator.
You can even record audio directly from the FM-1 into the app, edit it, and send it back to the device.
ECHOFIELD is free and experimental. Make sure to read the instructions before installing custom firmware, and back up anything you want to keep."
"ECHOFIELD turns the M-VAVE FM-1, a tiny FM synth, into a granular sampler. It reads tiny pieces of a sample (grains), dozens at a time, each with its own pitch, place and fade, and overlaps them into a sound that keeps moving. It started as a granular sampler for the R36S handheld and was rebuilt here, from the ground up, for the FM-1's own chip.
Six modes: CLOUD, DUST, TAPE, BLOOM, PULSE and DRIFT, each a different way of playing the same sound.
Playable: the keys play the cloud at any pitch, with velocity. Chords work too, and the DRIFT ORACLE picks notes in a key you choose.
Performance effects: hold FX and the black keys become freeze, reverse, octaves, stutter, tape stop, delay throw, shimmer and more, for as long as you hold them.
RANDOM with locks: ARP rolls new settings that still sound good. Lock the knobs you love, and undo if you went too far.
RESAMPLE: record up to five seconds of what you hear into a new sound, then granulate that.
LISTEN: hear any sample as it is, before the grains change it.
14 factory sounds, all CC0, and 16 slots for your own.
Both of the FM-1's cores render the grains, so there are no dropouts when you play hard.
"SpectraPad is a powerful spectral synthesizer designed for creating rich pads, evolving textures, shimmering atmospheres, and sounds that sit somewhere between the familiar and the completely unexpected.
Rather than relying on conventional oscillator shapes alone, SpectraPad lets you build sounds from their harmonic structure. You can shape the balance and character of individual partials, spread energy across the spectrum, introduce formant-like qualities, add movement and modulation, and transform relatively simple harmonic material into complex, evolving instruments.
With a conventional synthesizer you often begin by choosing a waveform. With SpectraPad, the waveform is effectively the result of everything you do to the spectrum.
That makes sound design far less predictable — and considerably more interesting.
You can start with a familiar harmonic structure, pull energy towards the lower or upper harmonics, introduce unusual frequency relationships, change the spectral character, add formants and movement, and very quickly arrive somewhere completely different.
SpectraPad has been designed so that you don't need to understand spectral synthesis to enjoy it. You can simply explore the controls and listen. But for those who want to dig deeper, the individual harmonic and spectral controls provide an enormous amount of sound-design potential.
Whether you're looking for a warm pad behind a mix, an evolving cinematic atmosphere, a delicate bell, a synthetic string ensemble, or something you have never heard before, SpectraPad gives you the tools to create it.
SpectraPad features a built in stereo arpeggiator and gate effects, as well as well as stereo delay, stereo echo and cloud effects. Many parameters can be automated to create an even more complex presets."
"Join us as Howard Moscovitz shares first-hand stories from his time working with Don Buchla in the early 1970s. In 1972, Howard had just received his masters degree in electronic music from Mills College, which had become the new home of the San Francisco Tape Music Center where Buchla developed his new modular synthesizer in the late 1960s. That same year, Don Buchla was hired as the “Technical Wizard” for the Electronic Symphony Orchestra, a pioneering and highly experimental effort to combine custom modular synthesizers with traditional orchestral instruments. Howard joined Don’s team as an electronics technician to help with the project.
The Electric Symphony Orchestra was essentially an attempt to electronically amplify and distort all of the traditional acoustic instruments in an orchestra. Howard will present his own very amusing firsthand accounts of Don’s efforts to “electrify” a traditional symphony orchestra and the somewhat disastrous outcome of those efforts, which culminated in a single infamous performance in Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall later that year.
The Buchla Machine
As part of his presentation, Howard will also present and discuss several historical artifacts from his own collection that he has generously placed on loan at EMEAPP. One of these is "The Buchla Machine," a simple yet fascinating distortion amplifier made with the first commercially available transistor. Don told Howard that The Buchla Machine was the first circuit he ever built, which of course makes it a very interesting object. But the way Howard came to possess it is even more interesting — and he will share that story as well.
Howard's tales offer a unique first-hand perspective on Buchla’s way of inventing and interacting with people during what is a very little-known time in Don's career (actual factual information on the Electric Symphony Orchestra and Buchla's work with it is very hard to come by). This presentation offers a rare chance to hear firsthand about a very special time in the history of electronic music.
Throughout the evening, Howard's stories will be interspersed with performances of new music played on some Buchla instruments, including new and vintage Music Easels as well as a software version of the Buchla 700. Howard will introduce his new Balsam synthesizer, a contemporary homage to Buchla’s instruments made in Durham, North Carolina. The musicians that will join Howard for the performances include Jil Christensen, Bill Fox, Joel Izquierdo, Doug Llewellyn, and Jared Stack.
There is no registration fee but donations are encouraged and gratefully received."
"A free unofficial OS modification by Deep88 with help from ChatGPT
I wanted a Track Mute page on my MPC3000. Nearly twenty years later, I finally made it happen, with ChatGPT's honestly insane help and a whole lot of trial and error.
I first used an MPC3000 back in 2007. Over the years, I started appreciating the newer MPCs, especially for the Track Mute page. I love building a song by muting and unmuting tracks, like on a big mixer, using Track Mute. The first MPC with a Track Mute page was the MPC2000, which got it through an OS update, using a Shift + button shortcut. From the MPC2000XL onward, it became a signature of the MPC family. Naturally, I wanted it on the 3000 too.
A couple of weeks of tinkering, using MAME's MPC3000 emulation for the first tests, and here we are. This update is based on OS 3.12, with Track Mute and a few extra features thrown in.
It's a bootable update only. There won't be an EPROM version, and I will never sell it. I made it as a gift to myself, and I'm sharing it for free with anyone who wants it, in the spirit of the old internet. If you feel like improving it or hacking in more features, grab ChatGPT, or whatever exists by the time you read this, and give it a shot.
Simply insert a floppy with .sys inside or use a gotek floppy emulator with .hfe or .img and turn it on."
"The OP-XY has also been hacked using AI. So new we are getting new firmwares, with new synths & fx daily. In this video I am showcasing a firmware by https://foundmotive.com/opxy/ with acoustic guitars, chord mode and a teenage engineering choir."
"All Trackers are getting a major firmware update with tons of new features and fixes you've been requesting for years. Plus - Tracker is now OPEN SOURCE!
"A generative dub techno machine that plays itself from the moment it is on: chord stabs into a tape echo, FM pings, a sub bass on five grooves, a ducking kick, crackle, and an eight-bar arrangement with breaks and fills."
