INARA Brings Modern Control and Expanded Capabilities to Classic Synthesizers

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Troy, Illinois — November 11, 2026 — Five Lined Engineering, LLC announces INARA, a line of purpose-built MIDI controllers that bring modern capabilities to classic synthesizers.

INARA combines hands-on controls, expanded patch storage, and modern MIDI connectivity for musicians who want to get more from their existing instruments.

Far more than a generalized surface controller, each INARA model is designed specifically for the synthesizer it supports. Features include a customized control surface, real-time MIDI Control Change (CC) control, generously expanded patch storage through virtual cartridges, and USB-MIDI connectivity. Custom firmware enhancements also improve the experience of using vintage instruments; for example, optimizing the Yamaha DX7’s keyboard velocity response.

INARA eliminates the need for drivers, control-surface templates, and manual MIDI message editing: connect it and start playing. For hands-on operation, it features ergonomically spaced, full-size tactile buttons, 45mm long-throw faders, and a large LCD display. Its compact, lightweight design combines solid construction with rubber feet for secure placement on a synthesizer or other equipment.

“Five Lined Engineering is excited to introduce INARA to musicians who are as passionate about their vintage synthesizers as we are, ” said Gary Sommer, Managing Director of Five Lined Engineering. “It is striking how inspiring, accessible, and fun these synthesizers are when partnered with INARA.”

INARA models are available for the Yamaha DX7, Korg DW-8000, and Roland Alpha Juno.

Additional models are planned. For USB-MIDI connectivity, INARA is class-compliant and compatible with operating systems that support class-compliant USB-MIDI devices.

INARA is available immediately in the United States with each model priced at $299 through www.fivelined.com/inara/. Visit www.fivelined.com for more information.

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Home Concert 87 (Ambient liveset for rainy autumn evenings with Waldorf Crema, Protein, Super6)

video upload by Martin Stürtzer

"The wind was rattling the trees and the rain was falling against my windows while I was composing the music for Home Concert 87. I captured the noise from outside with a microphone and made it part of the music. The whole set was created using a layout with only eight channels:

1: UDO Super 6 (Parts 3 - 5)
2: Sequential Prophet 10 (Parts 1-3 & 5)
3: Waldorf Protein (Parts 1, 3, 5)
4: Waldorf Crema (Parts 1 - 4)
5: Field Recordings (Parts 1, 2, 4)
6: UDO DMNO (Parts 2 - 4)
7: Waldorf Microwave 1 (Parts 1, 2)
8: Roland JV 1080 (Part 5)

All patches, sounds, sequences and arrangements were made by a (cat assisted) human. No AI tools were used in the creation of the music, video and artwork.

🎵 Music on Bandcamp: https://phelios.bandcamp.com/
🌐 Website: https://martinstuertzer.de"

JUNiOr64, a Commodore64 vst JUNO synthesizer

video upload by Emanuele Martorelli

"JUNiOr64 out now: a synthesizer that desperately tries to replicate the sound of glorious Juno. It's fully compatible with the Music Maker keyboard. The cutoff, LFO, and detune parameters can be adjusted in real time. Contains various presets.

Free download here:
https://smartsoft64.itch.io/junior64

The JUNiOr64 is fully portable by simply bringing along a C64, an old TV screen, a desk, a petrol generator and a power supply. Enjoy"

JUNiOr64
A Pretentious Polyphonic Synthesizer

Fully portable by bringing along with you a C64, a color tv, a power supply and the Music Maker keyboard. Powered by Emanuele Martorelli with AI

A synth that recreates the glory of Juno (with the classic chorus filter). Features:

Polyphony
Arp mode
Chorus
Detune
LFO
Acid Filter (new!)

KEYS:
crsr up / right - move cursor
< > - change parameters
F7 - change chord arp mode (major, minor, sus, dim)

NOW in MACHINE LANGUAGE (after the BASIC version) to speed up your expectations!"

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TRoss 303 Acid Bass Synthesizer for Ableton Live / Max for Live

video upload by Ticco Ross

"Classic acid character with modern ways to create, transform and perform your basslines.

Get TRoss 303

TRoss 303 combines a TB-303-style synthesizer and step sequencer with 64-pattern memory, pattern chaining, controlled random generation and MIDI export.

Its analog circuitry has been modelled component by component from the original schematics, capturing the interaction of the oscillator, filter, envelopes, accents and slides.

All controls are MIDI-mappable, so you can connect your favourite controller and shape the sound hands-on.

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Roland TR-808

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OMG ! THE BEST FREE ROLAND 303 EMULATION !

video upload by Sergio Frias

"rom here:
https://www.planetemu.net/en/rom/mame...

download synth here:
https://lemusdev.org/download

Many thanks for Lemus for developing this amazing skin"

Roland Juno-X JX-8P Model Expansion Synthwave Fun! Virtual Analog Synthesizer

video upload by Rik Marston Official

"*Watch in HD* *Turn it UP!* *No Talking!!!*
My Etsy store: AhnyxianSoundDesign
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selling Synthesizer Sample Packs, UP NOW!"

Roland Jupiter-08 & n/vision | SynthFest UK 2026

video upload by Sound On Sound magazine

"Roland talk us through the two latest synths to join their Boutique range, the Jupiter-08 and the n/vision."

Roland Boutique TR-08 Virtual Analog Drum Machine

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Roland SH-4D with Analog Case & USB cable [Three Wave Music] SN Z5P0687

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Bad Gear - THANK YOU so much!!!

video upload by AudioPilz

"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. Today we are going about the brand-new N/Vision. This compact wavetable synth demonstrates impressively that as long as Roland is in business this channel won’t run out of gear to review. Thank you so much!"

Roland SP-606 Sampling Workstation [Three Wave Music] SN ZV27185

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Roland JD-XI - "Berlin Legacy" Soundset 64 Presets & Sequences

video upload by LFOstore

"BUY: https://lfo.sellfy.store/p/roland-jd-...

♬ DESCRIPTION

LFO Store’s professional sound designers, Nick Klimenko and OttO K. Schwarz, have joined forces to create a massive soundset for one of the finest digital synthesizers of the last decade, Roland JD-XI - as you asked for a long time.

The 'Berlin Legacy' soundbank – a set of universal sounds that are suitable for writing ambient, cinematic music, classical electronics, and classic Berlin electronica with the spirit of sir Klaus Schulze!

Classic Leads
Modular Arps
Complex Berlin Sequences
Beautiful Polys
Evolving Pads
Massive Strings

♬ SPECIFICATIONS
Presets are suitable for Roland JD-XI synthesizer
In the product pack you will find 64 exclusive patches
All presets are royalty-free! And they are suitable for both studio work and live performances;.

♬ INSTRUCTIONS
Installation instructions are included in the product pack – how to load &hints of using our sounds with JD-XI controllers."

Synthfest | UK 2026 - The Roland System 700 Recreated

video upload by Starsky Carr

"Analogue Solutions have built a full-scale recreation of the Roland System 700, and it is enormous. This is the Series 700, demoed at Synthfest UK 2026 by Tom Carpenter of Analogue Solutions - in production, available to order now, and about £33,000 for the complete system.

It sits alongside the Colossus and the Maximus as one of those instruments most of us will only ever see at a show. I've had both of those in here, and this is the same league: wooden cabinets, full-size jacks, and a huge amount of custom-made parts because almost nothing off the shelf would do.

What Tom walks through:

The main cab - a complete synthesizer in its own right, partially pre-patched
The sequencer
The oscillator bank: six oscillators
Filters and VCAs
Accessory blocks: phaser, delay and extra filters
How you can start with the main block and add the side blocks over time
Why it costs what it costs

Crucially, this isn't vapourware or a crowdfunding promise. It's in production now.

About the sound: same problem as my Loom video - my radio mic had silently reset itself to not record, so Tom's audio is gone. I've subtitled his side of the conversation instead. Apologies, but the synth is worth seeing."

discoDSP TDminator 2 TB-303-style Analog Bassline and Acid Sequencer for iOS

video upload by discoDSP



"A 303-style analog bassline and acid sequencer. Program patterns on a piano-roll grid, generate acid lines in a tap and play them on the built-in 303-style analog model with Devil Fish-style controls. With a Behringer TD-3 connected (every color variant: TD-3-BK, RD, SR, AM, BU, WH…), TDminator also edits its patterns and sends them to the hardware.

Version 2.0 adds the bassline, MIDI pattern switching and a 64-pattern factory bank. Patterns can be edited while they play: notes, accents and slides change on the next pass."

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tdminat...

iPad version left, iPhone screens below.

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Sinister Sounds for Halloween on the Oberheim FVS

video upload by Electro-Classic Orchestra

"A sinister improvisation on a Gilbert & Sullivan opera "The Sorcerer". The song is 'Sprites of Earth and Air' and is played heavily on the Oberheim Four Voice Synthesizer (FVS) from 1976 with its incredible state-variable multi-mode filters, one of the first truly polyphonic synthesizers ever made. Also featured are three Moogs, a Third Wave, a D50 and a vocoder!" Polymoog in there as well.

See the Halloween label below for additional spooky posts.

Techno Jam with PWM Malevolent/Roland MC-707

video upload by ghostradioshow

Enjoyyy :-)

AceTone Rhythm Ace FR 8L Sound Variations with Roland SDE 1000 Digital Delay

video upload by SUBTOKYOSHOP Music Gears

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Noesis // Chamber of Circuits

video upload by Erica Synths

"A performance of Noesis by Latvian composer Anna Fišere, written for eight performers and fourteen synthesizers, bringing together musicians from Latvia's classical and electronic music scenes.

Inspired by Plato's concept of noesis - the highest form of knowledge achieved through direct, intuitive understanding - the composition challenges the boundaries between academic and electronic music. Combining contemporary composition techniques with the chamber orchestra format and electronic instruments, Noesis examines the relationship between human intuition and the algorithmic precision of machines.

Developed in close collaboration with Erica Synths, the piece brings together analogue, digital and modular synthesizers, using repetition, modulation and spectral harmonies to create an evolving musical structure.

Performers of Noesis: Rihards Plešanovs, Reinis Rabenau, Sonja Misiņa, Kaspars Tobis, Ansels Kaugers, Error, Madara Ozoliņa, Edgars Tomševics, conductor Artūrs Gailis.

Set design: Artūrs Virtmanis.

Produced by the cultural organisation Artes Liberales.

Read an interview with composer Anna Fišere: https://garage.ericasynths.lv/article..."

Analogue Solutions Series 700 Modular Synthesiser

via Analogue Solutions

"The Roland System 700 is a very rare and desirable modular synthesiser. It was and still is a premium professional system. They fetch over £150,000 on the second hand market, and that’s even if you can find a full system. If you can find a Roland System 700, usually it is only a partial system and finding the remaining blocks is near impossible.

The Analogue Solutions Series 700 is as close to the Roland System 700 as you can get. We aimed to replicate the design as closely as possible, keeping the look and layout the same.

We had knobs and slider caps custom made, and also custom ordered switches and potentiometers.

There are mechanical changes inside, which of course do not change the sound.

Using modern hindsight there are now better ways to build this internally and externally, and different choice of circuits types and layouts would be made in a synth now, but we stayed with the original spec.

Almost every circuit has been reproduced from original schematics. We kept changes to a minimum, only changing where necessary. The original uses many components that are discontinued. So changes were only made where it is impossible to find parts.

We resisted the urge to change the spec or feature set. The only change we made was to add a basic single channel MIDI to CV converter. This primarily for syncing the sequencer to MIDI.

Physical size is identical. Though we don’t plan to sell loose single modules, they are the same size as the original system, though a space may be required, and the power connector would need adapting.

We supply complete systems. However, one could buy the system in parts, starting, say, with just the Main block, adding the other blocks as money allows.

Or single blocks could be bought to fill gaps in an incomplete system."