MONOCHORD in under 90 seconds (no talking) video upload by orph
"MONOCHORD is a dream machine, harmony workstation and chord instrument for macOS and Windows. It maps full chords to single keys, so chord progressions, melodies and arp patterns can be performed with one click or key press, no piano or theory training required. It ships with 600+ hand-voiced and adjustable chords (from simple triads to pianistic nine-note chords), 425 multisampled instruments in an 11.8 GB library recorded from hardware instruments from the 1980s to 2000s, 15 effect & modulation engines, MIDI output for routing to hardware and DAWs, and full audio and MIDI export and user multisample & chord import."
MONOCHORD is a chord instrument & harmony workstation for producers, composers and sound artists — 425 vintage instrument sounds captured in the character of iconic 1980s–2000s hardware, 600+ hand-voiced chords, 15 effect engines, full MIDI routing and audio/MIDI export. Build chord-based arrangements from a single key press or mouse click. What normally takes piano and harmony training, a chain of plugins and a slow setup happens here in under a minute, leaving only the music.
FORMATS
Standalone · VST3 · AU
macOS 10.13+ · Windows 10 / 11
Universal · Apple Silicon + Intel
64-bit only
"I released my new physics based generative MIDI app, Wind Chimes.
- Adjust the wind physics parameters.
- Strike the chimes yourself to play it by hand.
- Adjust each chime’s note and physics.
- Chime motion can also stream out as MIDI CC for modulation."
Unlock sounds that couldn’t exist until now with Lucid—our dream granular effect built for creating vivid textures, harmonies, rhythms, and transformations that stay in key and in time.
Explore over 350 presets across 13 packs, covering everything from harmonic layering and synced rhythms to shimmering spaces and total transformations—each built to get bold, track-ready results fast.
"Lucid is a next-generation granular effect that rebuilds any sound grain by grain into musical textures, harmonies, and rhythmic effects—always in key, in time, and fully under your control.
Lucid provides complete musical control over time and pitch, producing vibrant sounds that couldn't have existed before, always in key, without breaking creative flow.
Industry-first grain scale-locking automatically tunes every grain to your chosen scale, while timeline sync keeps stretching, freezing, and playback locked to your session. Together, they let you reshape pitch and time freely without losing the musical foundation, while additional per-grain effects provide detailed granular shaping capabilities.
With a music-first workflow, Lucid can be dropped onto any source and shaped immediately. From subtle layering to complete transformations, its presets, per-grain processing, harmonic tools, and deep modulation make it easy to start quickly and go as far as you want."
"The Tone Garden is a free generative synth in the browser. Fifteen voices, each hand-written in Web Audio, over a weather-driven ambient ground. Nothing to install, no signup, zero third-party requests — and the whole patch lives in the share URL, so a sound is a link you can pass around.
The licence on the page: anything rendered is free for anybody to use, monetized or not, no credit required — and it's forward-only, so if the terms ever change, whatever's already been made stays free permanently.
Plain fact, since your readers care about this one: the record behind the project was made with generative AI; the instrument has not one AI-generated byte in it. Both stated on the site."
Built from the original MEGAfm by the same designer, using the original firmware, schematic-derived analogue modelling and an audio-trained GRU output stage. Twelve voices of tactile four-operator FM — rebuilt for your DAW and standalone.
AU · VST3 · standalone · 109 factory presets · full MPE support.
Desktop licence includes instant macOS + Windows delivery and a personal serial by email.
Also available separately for iPad on the App Store.
"Mono Two by Monomono is a monophonic Max for Live synthesiser built around the semi-modular spirit of the Korg MS20, optimised for Ableton Live and fully operational on Push 3 Standalone. In this walkthrough we go from first filter sweep to full patchbay session, covering everything that makes this device tick. Monomono have expanded on the original MS20 architecture with dual filter circuit switching, tempo-synced LFO, bipolar and unipolar envelope modes, stereo spread, and a guided patchbay with attenuator and multiplier utilities.
Dual oscillator architecture with waveform selection, pulse width, and ring modulation K35 versus OTA filter circuit comparison and real-time switching Filter sweep with peak resonance and highpass filter in action LFO shapes, free and synced modes, phase reset, and tempo sync Envelope Generator 1 with delay, attack, and release for frequency modulation Envelope Generator 2 bipolar and unipolar modes, hold, and legato switching Modulation visualisation on dials showing scope and depth of applied modulation Stereo spread control from full mono to wide stereo Patchbay walkthrough with attenuator, multiplier, and guided orange-highlight routing Push 3 Standalone patchbay navigation and sample-and-hold patch demonstration
Melbourne Instruments Backs Its Motorized Controls With a 10-year Warranty
Guaranteed to feel the same in 10 years as it does on day one. Every motorized rotary control that Melbourne Instruments builds is now covered by a 10-year warranty.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Melbourne Instruments today announced a 10-year warranty on the motorized rotary control components in every product it builds, covering NINA, DELIA and ROTO-CONTROL. The cover sits alongside the standard product warranty and is activated by registering the instrument.
A conventional knob uses a wiper dragging across a resistive track, and that contact is what wears, collects dust and eventually fails. Melbourne Instruments' controls remove contact from the assembly. Torque passes from the motor through a magnetic field rather than a gear train. Position is read optically, with nothing touching. There is no wear surface anywhere between the motor and the player's fingers.
That has benefits beyond durability. An endless encoder has no fixed position, so the knob sits wherever the last hand left it and the true value lives on a screen or LED. Its detents soften over time as the disc and wipers wear. Melbourne Instruments' knobs drive to the exact preset position, hold detents and switch positions under the hand, and change character on demand - stepped, smooth, or switch-like. No gears between the motor and your fingers. The knob moves the instant the sound does.
The motors have been tested 50 million times, far more than a lifetime of playing could reach. The 10-year warranty is not the limit of the mechanism. It is the point at which Melbourne Instruments stopped counting.
Customers who bought before 17 August 2026 have until 17 February 2027 to register at melbourneinstruments.com and activate their full 10 years, running from the original date of purchase. The terms and scope are the same as for a new purchase.
The warranty launches with a campaign called "A decade of play", running across Melbourne Instruments' channels and dealer partners from 17 August. The line appears on a 10-year motor warranty roundel supplied to retailers alongside product artwork and spec listings.
Claims in the first 2 years go through the customer's place of purchase, as they do today. From year 3 to year 10, claims come directly to Melbourne Instruments, with service points in Europe, the USA and Australia. Cover applies to the motorized rotary control components only and requires registration.
"We're excited to partner with Novation at the upcoming Novation Creator Lab: Bitwig Edition in Los Angeles.
Join us Saturday, August 22, 2026, for a fun and educational afternoon of hands-on production, hybrid performances, live sets, and interactive workshops with Bitwig artists, producers, and Certified Trainers. The event will focus on integrating Bitwig Studio with Novation controllers to create flexible production and live performance setups.
Sessions include Hybrid Hardware Workflows (Peter Nyboer), Creative Mixing in Bitwig Studio (3am), Audio and Visual Performance (Dernovan), and more."
Polyphonic D50 sampler synthesizer with ESP32 in YAMAHA DX21 Hardwer :)
video upload by László Róbert Kasza
"Unfortunately, the motherboard of my dx21 synth is broken beyond repair. So she got new electronics. I have uploaded a code I wrote using Roland D50 sound samples.
So what everyone feared has come true. The Yamaha Roland DX-D50-21 :)
Abilities:
-4 d50samples
-TVA Envelope
Course, Fine, Keyfollow
-The sampling frequency is 48000Hz.
Signal on 16 bits or more
-The device is polyphonic up to 10 tones
2 LFO controlled 2 parametric EQ
-Upper Lower Choruse
-Reverb engine
-Roland D50sysex compatibility...
-hd44780 compatible LCD Display (Not implement more)
-https://data.dynareg.se/breadandbutte...
(If we are bored, we can listen to internet radio on it.)
"The Tendrils Patch Planner is a browser-based interactive tool created by Tendrils Cables that lets Eurorack modular synthesizer users virtually map out cable patches, calculate required cable lengths, and generate cable lists or a shopping cart directly from mock-ups of their racks, cases or other instruments.
Key Features
ModularGrid Integration: Upload a screenshot of your rack/s from ModularGrid or paste a direct rack link and the planner will fetch the image.
Scale Calibration: Set accurate dimensions by clicking two points across a module and inputting the size in centimeters so cable length estimations remain precise.
Smart Cable Drawing: Use a click-and-drag crosshair tool to sketch a route. The tool automatically curves and smooths out the line.
Multiple Cable Types: The standard right angled Tendrils, Stakkas stacking cables, Mutants (3.5mm to 1/4") and straight barrel cables are all available and can be switched out by pressing "c" (Colour Picker) and "t" (Type Picker) in edit mode.
Bezier Curve Editing: Click a cable head to select it, then adjust connector locations, re-shape the cable path or add additional handle points to bend wires neatly around crucial knobs, controls and displays.
Load Multiple racks: Load additonal racks into the workspace and patch between them to plan out full live performance setups! Images of any device (Drum Machines, Outboard Synths, Mixers, etc) can be added if you match the scale of the MG images.
Shopping Cart Sync: Once your virtual patch is finished, you can click a button to seamlessly add the exact lengths and styles of cables used directly into the web store cart, or export the cable list to text file for future reference or ordering from other retailers."
There are some sound examples through-out the video, and some more focussed ones in the middle of the video, followed by the new workflow features and the updated CC4 / foot-control behavior.
A fair amount of oscillator-core optimization also went into making the additional processing possible while keeping CPU use under control.
Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:11 Background 01:04 Changes and new capabilities 04:28 Sound examples 05:25 New workflow features 06:06 CC4 / foot-control improvements 07:11 Summing it up
Curves & Membranes 1.3.5 is a free update for existing owners.
"I'm so excited that the first custom panel has been released! Meet AMBIOTICA by Charles Vestal, an implementation of his lovely iOs app/VST by the same name for Plinky 12. Its easy to create relaxing ambient beds with this panel and lots of fun to tweak and explore.
"AD-202 is a single-oscillator monosynth in the small-silver-box tradition of the early 1980s. One VCO with saw, pulse, sub, and noise running into a 24 dB ladder filter, one envelope, one LFO, and very little else. Every control is on the front panel, there are no hidden pages of options, and there is exactly one path from a knob to a sound.
Under the vintage panel it is a thoroughly modern instrument. Mono or eight-voice poly, per-voice analog drift, a tempo-syncable LFO with a delayed onset, MPE, MTS-ESP microtuning, and a post-VCA colour section with pre-filter saturation, filter drive, distortion, and a tilt EQ. The vintage part is the ergonomics. The rest of it is not vintage at all.
Same as the rest of our catalog: Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS. No DRM, no subscriptions, no dongles, perpetual license.
EDINBURGH, UK: readily representing its first ‘big’ release in over a year (when the temporarily out-of-circulation GLASS STRINGS was effectively re-released with a totally redesigned GUI and added features as the Edinburgh-based enterprise’s workhorse string library for a new era in more human-sounding music and scores, coinciding with rebranding itself with an aesthetic that truly realised company co-founder and composer Christian Henson’s heartfelt dream of encouraging people to make music and help them on their journey, regardless of whatever point they were at and wherever their journey began), The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of ARCANE STRINGS — taking the sampling rule book and ripping it up, ultimately resulting in a string library featuring amateur players in order to achieve an arcane, primitive, dislocated, microtonal, loose, and sometimes savage sound duly designed for media composers wanting to leave a truly characterful imprint on their next drama score, or, indeed, composers who want to gain extra devilish bite out of their existing string collections — as of August 14…
Typhon Unofficial Assistant - Demo video upload by Voidcontrol MIDI
"Voidcontrol MIDI has released the Typhon Unofficial Assistant, a software controller and patch librarian for the Dreadbox Typhon.
It brings the Typhon's sound onto the screen, adds full DAW automation, and keeps a library of your patches on your computer. Because the Typhon shares its sound parameters over MIDI but not its patch storage or internal routing, this is an Assistant rather than a full editor: it focuses on live sound control and patch management.
Features:
Live control of every parameter the Typhon exposes over MIDI, laid out by section
One-click read of the current sound from the hardware
Full DAW automation with real automation lanes, not just MIDI learn
A 32-step sequencer that locks to DAW tempo or MIDI clock and plays the Typhon, with per-step gate, tie, velocity and gate length, plus global division, swing and probability
A lossless patch library with naming, categories, favorites, search, and single-file or full-bank import and export
Preset export to .typhonpr for use with Dreadbox's own Preset Manager
A standalone version for use without a DAW
Init and randomize
Resizable UI, 50 to 300 percent
Windows 10 and 11, as a VST3 plugin and a standalone app. Requires a MIDI connection to a Dreadbox Typhon on firmware 4.2 or later. Tested in Ableton, Bitwig, Cubase, Reaper, Studio One, and Waveform. A Mac version is under consideration.
"Demonstrating the TR-6oh6 parameters of the TR-6oh6 controller
https://tubbutec.de/tr-6oh6-controller/
Clap sound adjustment
CY and OH decay
Flam type
Swing amount
Reslicer performance
Automatic reslicer"
