bazillOS 0.9.2 Beta 1 | Punch Favourites, MIDI & Four Looks

video upload by Kid Bunka

"A quick look at bazillOS 0.9.2 beta 1 (bz092a) for the Polyend Tracker Mini.

Four theme and font pairings, seven assignable Punch Favourites in the Pattern Editor, and independent MIDI In and Out channel settings for all 16 tracks.

To set a Punch Favourite, go to Pattern Editor → More page 5 (Favs / More). Stop playback, hold and release one of the first seven soft keys, choose an effect with + / −, then tap the same key to save. While the pattern runs, hold a favourite to punch in on the selected audio track.

For MIDI, open Config → MIDI → Routing track. Set Track MIDI In and Track MIDI Out independently. USB MIDI In and Out passed on tracks 1 and 16 with the expected channels and no stuck notes. TRS MIDI was also tested on the Mini.

Beta, source and release notes
https://github.com/kidbee85-beep/bazi...

Website and handbook
https://kidbee85-beep.github.io/bazil...

The film uses software-rendered firmware controls with demonstration data, a MIDI routing diagram and a separate studio soundtrack. Music: 'Copper Orchard' by Kid Bunka.

#bazillOS #PolyendTrackerMini #TrackerMusic"

LACIMA DSP releases LACIMA CS-01, two early-'80s analog monosynths in one plug-in

Press release follows:

10 November 2026. LACIMA DSP, the audio division of LACIMA Tools, has released LACIMA CS-01, a plug-in instrument for Windows and macOS.

LACIMA CS-01 models two versions of a small battery-powered monosynth. The 1982 original has a 12 dB per octave filter and resonance on a two-position switch. Its 1984 successor has a 24 dB per octave filter and a resonance slider that reaches self-oscillation. A MODEL switch moves between the two, also on a held note.

The plug-in opens as the original did: one voice, no key tracking, the noise floor on. Each addition sits behind its own switch:

- POLY, eight voices, each a full copy of the circuit

- STEREO and BINAURAL

- KEY TRACK in two modes; mode II tunes self-oscillation to the semitone

- EG LOOP, and an LFO that reaches 2 kHz for FM-style tones

A single AGE control moves the unit from healthy to worn. A breath controller on MIDI CC 2 drives BREATH VCF and BREATH VCA. A preset browser holds 23 factory presets for both models.

Pricing and availability

LACIMA CS-01 is available now at lacimatools.com/dsp/cs-01.

Launch price: €9 / $9, 69% off, until 8 December 2026, 23:59 CET. Regular price: €29 / $29.

One licence covers two computers.

The free demo has no time limit. After two minutes it plays a burst of hiss about every 30 seconds until a licence is activated.

Formats

Windows: VST3 and standalone, 64-bit.

macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel): VST3, AU and standalone.

Product page and demo: https://lacimatools.com/dsp/cs-01

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Keysolutions Sounds - Traveler 1.3 MPE - A Film Composer's Dream! - One Patch Film Score!

video upload by Scott McAuley Sounds and KeySolutions Sounds

"This is one singular patch!, played completely live, recorded and sent straight to this channel.
The ability Traveler has to sound like an entire synthesis cinematic orchestra is mind blowing!

© Scott McAuley. All rights reserved. #custom #sounds "

TrackWerk 1.0 — Sampling, Synthesis & Live Punch-In FX

video upload by Kid Bunka

"A 1924 piano recording becomes a boom-bap beat in TrackWerk 1.0. Then hear broken UK garage and a continuous house performance while exploring the Source Sampler, Drumlab, Studio and live resampling.

TrackWerk is a free, open-source handheld music tracker by Kid Bunka.
Project, guide and device downloads
https://kidbee85-beep.github.io/Track...
TrackWerk 1.0 release
https://github.com/kidbee85-beep/Trac...
00:00 Intro and Internet Archive sampling
00:23 Sample Editor and slicing
00:34 Drumlab
00:47 Song, Chain, Phrase and M8 import
01:00 Radio rewind and SELECT help
01:13 Native synthesis, presets and granular
01:30 Live Punch-In FX
02:02 Resampling and mixing
02:15 Themes, grids and five handheld profiles

Music in order
“Side Door Press” · boom-bap, 88 BPM
“Paper Lanterns” · broken UK garage, 132 BPM
“Evening Relay” · house, 120 BPM
The arrangements used AI assistance and were sequenced and rendered in TrackWerk. Drums and breaks are from Kid Bunka’s sample collection.

Piano source in 'Side Door Press'
'Armour Avenue Struggle' by Jimmy Blythe (1924). TrackWerk exported the 14-second region 00:01.100–00:15.100. Phrases were cut, processed and rearranged for the beat.
https://archive.org/details/JV-981-19...
Archive listing: CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdom..."

Roostbox - Play a groovebox like a game (Free iOS app)

video upload by e y l v y

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/roostbo...


Roostbox is a groovebox that looks like a retro arcade cabinet and plays like one. It makes techno and other electronic music live, by hand: fly a ship through a beat, ride the faders, flick the stick, and every gesture you make is recorded and loops with the beat.

It is a different way to play electronic music live. There is no step grid to program and no timeline to edit. Everything on screen is a control, you play it with two thumbs, and the loop keeps what you played.

Two kits are in the box, and everything is free: both kits, the whole performance surface and the AUv3 plugin. No purchase, no account, no ads.

Play it standalone on iPhone or iPad, or load it as an instrument inside AUM, Loopy Pro, Cubasis, Drambo or Logic Pro for iPad.

TWO KITS IN THE BOX

SPACE: fly a ship through a beat. Where the ship goes picks the groove: four-on-the-floor, backbeat, offbeat, broken, sixteenths. The cockpit page holds the mixer, a stick for filter and grit, overdrive, pump, tape, delay, reverb, crush and a DJ filter. A 303-style acid bass and a drum synth make the sound.

PLIVKA: a four-track techno box. Kick, bass, snare and hat, each with a pattern control and a hit control, laid out over five pages: Rhythm, Sound, Perform, FX and Mix. The bass line is a Turing machine that mutates as much or as little as you let it.

UNDER THE HOOD

- Euclidean rhythm generators, a Turing machine sequencer and a trigger sequencer drive the patterns.

- A drum synth and a 303-style acid bass synth make the sound. No samples.

- Every fader move is recorded as motion and loops with the beat. Undo and redo if you change your mind.

- Scenes: snapshot the whole kit and switch on the next sixteenth, beat, bar or pattern.

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Retromulator 2.4 - Nordic 2 Nord Lead 2 & 2X Factory Audio Demos

video upload by discoDSP

https://www.discodsp.com/retromulator/

"The Nord Lead 2 from 1997, running on Nordic 2, a clean-room C++ recreation by discoDSP that needs no firmware or ROM data. It follows Nord Lead 2 OS 1.04 as measured on the unit and as its manual describes, with 64 voices in place of the unit's 16, Performance mode with four slots, the Shift functions and kits.

Nord Lead 2 and N2X banks load as they are, and its own editor shows below the rack. With a Retromulator license, Engine Oversampling runs the oscillators at 2x or 4x for playback and bounce, as on Nordic. Sessions made with the earlier N2X core open in Nordic 2."

Retromulator 2.4 - Nordic 2 Nord Lead 2X Factory Audio Demo

video upload by discoDSP

"The Nord Lead 2 from 1997, running on Nordic 2, a clean-room C++ recreation by discoDSP that needs no firmware or ROM data. It follows Nord Lead 2 OS 1.04 as measured on the unit and as its manual describes, with 64 voices in place of the unit's 16, Performance mode with four slots, the Shift functions and kits.

Nord Lead 2 and N2X banks load as they are, and its own editor shows below the rack. With a Retromulator license, Engine Oversampling runs the oscillators at 2x or 4x for playback and bounce, as on Nordic. Sessions made with the earlier N2X core open in Nordic 2."

Nord Rack previously featured here, and Discovery Pro in posts here.

Retromulator 2.4 - MiniD Moog Core Audio Demo

video upload by discoDSP

https://www.discodsp.com/retromulator

"MiniD is an analog three-oscillator monosynth voiced from measurements of analog hardware, with a ladder filter, filter and loudness contours, poly, unison and double voicing, and a Factory bank of 49 presets."

TrackWerk 0.9 — One Jazz Find, Two Grooves | Hip-Hop & Drum and Bass

video upload by Kid Bunka

Formerly Pocket Tracker Extreme

"One archive find. Two grooves. A handheld tracker built for making music.

Follow a complete jazz phrase from TrackWerk’s Source Sampler into a laid-back hip-hop arrangement and a rolling drum & bass flip. Hear the original bass and harmony breathe while newly programmed drums give the same passage two different rhythmic roles.

The film follows search, preview, IN/OUT, WAV import and phrase audition, then visits the synth controls, categorized presets, FX rack, Punch banks, Drumlab and internal resampling. The two arrangements play through TrackWerk’s native engine. The workflow is edited for clarity; the gentle, pitch-preserving 85-to-86 BPM sample preparation was done outside the app. Studio browsing is separate from the continuous musical playback.

TrackWerk 0.9 beta is free and open source. The illustrated English guide covers supported Android handhelds, Trimui Brick with KNULLI, Miyoo Mini and Miyoo Mini Plus with Onion OS. The normal Mini is offline; Mini Plus uses the separate online build. See device notes for tested behavior and remaining checks.

DOWNLOADS, TUTORIAL AND COMPATIBILITY
https://kidbee85-beep.github.io/Track...

SOURCE CODE / RELEASE
https://github.com/kidbee85-beep/Trac...

SUPPORT THIS FREE PROJECT
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?busine...

CHAPTERS
00:00 Archive to instrument
00:27 Keep the musical phrase
00:40 The hip-hop groove
00:56 Studio presets and FX
01:18 Drumlab and double time
01:36 Ghost notes and another engine
01:52 Performance tools and resampling
02:04 Save the take

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Anukari 1.1: Strings, Tubes, Wind, and 1,000+ New Presets

video upload by Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer

The Making of the Modulosphere: Behind the Springs

video upload by Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer

Press release follows:

Anukari 1.1 Brings Strings, Tubes, Breath, and Over 1,000 New Sounds to the 3D Physics Synthesizer

The first major update since launch is built almost entirely from user requests, and it's free for every existing owner

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Nov. 10, 2026 -- Anukari, the synthesizer that makes sound from a real-time 3D physics simulation, today released version 1.1, its first major update since leaving beta in June. Where Anukari 1.0 let musicians build instruments from masses, springs, and mallets, 1.1 adds resonating strings, bars, plates, membranes, tubes, bells, a mouthpiece that lets players blow into their creations like a wind instrument, more than 1,000 new factory presets, and dozens of other additions. The update is free for everyone who already owns Anukari.

Almost everything in the release started as a request from someone playing Anukari. Resonators were the most-asked-for feature by far.

“After 1.0, I read every message people sent me, and the same ideas kept coming up,” says Evan Mezeske, Anukari’s founder and creator. “Version 1.1 is basically that list. Resonators were at the top of it, but nearly every feature in this release exists because a user asked for it.”

Resonators are virtual objects that ring like real ones do: a string that can be plucked or bowed, a metal bar, a plate, a drum membrane, a tube, a bell. Each one can be struck, rubbed, or blown, and each can be wired into the mass-and-spring contraptions Anukari users were already building. So, a bouncing weight can drum on a plate, or a swinging structure can vibrate a string.

“The palette of sounds in Anukari just got dramatically bigger,” says Mezeske. “Between the resonators and the mouthpiece, there are so many kinds of sounds and crazy ideas you can explore now that simply weren’t possible before. And because resonators connect to the mass-spring systems people already know how to build, it isn’t additive, it’s multiplicative. Every old idea suddenly has a hundred new versions.”

The new mouthpiece exciter brings breath into the picture, letting players drive tubes and other resonators with air, the way a player’s breath drives a clarinet or a trumpet. New spring types let objects collide and bounce off one another or hold rigid shapes, which opens the door to things like wind chimes, rattles, and clattering machines. The bow, mallet, and plectrum all gained new, much richer physical models as well.

Mezeske’s own favorite addition is the Modulosphere, a sphere that can float through the scene and change whatever it touches. “Anukari has this whole 3D space, and the Modulosphere is the perfect expression of that,” he says. “It’s a way of shaping sound that only makes sense in three dimensions. It really takes advantage of Anukari’s virtual 3D world in a unique way.”

Big ideas in Anukari can mean big structures, and building them by hand can be painstaking. Version 1.1 adds tools that generate whole shapes and duplicate pieces in patterns. It also lets musicians bring their own AI assistant. Anukari has no AI built in, but anyone who already uses an AI assistant on their computer, such as Claude or ChatGPT, can now connect it to Anukari, describe the contraption they have in mind, let the assistant build it, and then see and hear the result in a fraction of the time.

“Some of the most fun things to make in Anukari are huge and complicated, and that can be incredibly involved,” Mezeske says. “If you already use an AI assistant, you can now point it at Anukari, describe whatever you’ve dreamt up, and hear how it sounds much sooner. There’s no AI inside Anukari; it just gives your assistant the controls. It’s a tool for exploring crazy ideas faster. And if you’re not a fan of AI, I completely respect that. You don’t need to use it. The new pattern duplication is super powerful on its own.”

To show off the new possibilities, 1.1 ships with more than 1,000 new factory presets across four new banks, including a collection of orchestral instruments built entirely from physics, along with a redesigned preset browser with search, filters, and favorites to make them easy to find. Playing has improved too, with legato and glide, editable envelope and velocity curves, and steady, incremental reductions in CPU use.

Since 1.0, Anukari has also arrived on Linux, fully supported alongside macOS and Windows, and gained gravity and turbulence controls that let structures fall, sway, and drift.

Anukari 1.1 is available now from anukari.com as a VST3, AU, AAX, and LV2 plugin, and as a standalone app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is a free update for all existing owners. To celebrate the release alongside Black Friday, Anukari is 50% off through December 4. The free 7-day demo has also been reopened for everyone, including people who already used up their trial on an earlier version, so anyone curious about what’s changed can try it again.

MTRX-1K – Oberheim Matrix-1000 Emulation | VST3 Synth

video upload by Synth Cloud

MTRX-1K – Complete Walkthrough | Matrix-1000 Emulation & Features

video upload by Synth Cloud

▬▬▬ Download Link ▬▬▬▬
🚀 MTRX-1K: https://www.synthonia.com...
"Explore MTRX-1K in detail with GPR Music Project: a complete walkthrough of its synthesizer architecture, sound editing capabilities, modulation system and integrated effects.

MTRX-1K is a VST3 synthesizer and standalone Windows application that recreates the classic Oberheim Matrix-1000 (1987) through firmware-based emulation.

In this extended presentation, the developer introduces the software's features, explains its synthesis architecture and demonstrates how MTRX-1K can be used for detailed sound programming and electronic music production.

Firmware-Based Synthesizer Emulation

MTRX-1K runs the original Matrix-1000 firmware version 1.20 on an emulated Motorola 6809 processor board, controlling six modeled CEM3396 voice chips.

The software reproduces the instrument's synthesis behaviour while offering selectable 6, 12 or 24-voice polyphony, stereo spread, voice detuning and polyphonic unison.

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UVI Introduces Twin 88 Keys

video uploads by UVI

"Twin 88 Keys - Acoustic and Electric Piano, Together

Twin 88 Keys blends two pianos you know by heart on one keyboard, with deep creative controls to shape every nuance. Play a chord, and the pristine strings of a concert grand and the iconic tines of a vintage electric piano answer together. The sound that rises between them is one you’ve never heard, yet it feels familiar from the very first note.

Discover a new instrument that brings a pristine concert grand and an iconic vintage electric piano together on a single keyboard."

https://www.uvi.net/twin-88-keys
Also included in SonicPass ➡️ https://www.uvi.net/sonicpass

Playlist:

1. UVI Twin 88 Keys - Performance by Mattia Vlad Morleo

Hear “Stitches” by Italian composer and pianist Mattia Vlad Morleo performed with the new Twin 88 Keys, which brings a pristine concert grand and an iconic vintage electric piano together on a single keyboard.

2. UVI Twin 88 Keys | Preset Showcase

Discover a new instrument that brings a pristine concert grand and an iconic vintage electric piano together on a single keyboard.

00:00 - Cinematic Full 00:15 - Kaleidoscopic 00:24 - Radio Compact 00:34 - Octave Dream 00:41 - Autopan Two 00:53 - Space Dyno 01:02 - Steady Tines 1 01:14 - Twintasia 01:22 - Small Movements 01:33 - Reactor 01:44 - Complex Numbers 01:54 - Still Seventh 02:04 - A Point 02:12 - Raccoon City 02:18 - Lullaby 02:31 - Vill Hamelin

3. UVI Twin 88 Keys | Overview - Video credits: Venus Theory



Built from two pianos you know by heart blended on one keyboard, with deep creative controls to shape every nuance. Play a chord, and the pristine strings of a concert grand and the iconic tines of a vintage electric piano answer together. The sound that rises between them in Twin 88 Keys is one you’ve never heard, yet it feels familiar from the very first note.

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Tropica Nova: The 8-Bit Island Synth 🌴🎮 (Official Trailer)

video upload by Slime Green Beats

"🌴 Get Tropica Nova: https://slimegreenbeats.com/products/...

The 8-bit island synth by Slime Green Beats. Two pulse waves, a triangle bass and a noise channel, straight from a classic game console, plus the tools modern producers need.

🎮 In the trailer:
• Twin pulse waves with 4 duty cycles
• Triangle bass in the Authentic 8-bit engine
• Tracker-style chord arps: hold one key, get a full chord
• Noise drums + Metal mode
• Pitch sweeps for lasers and kicks
• Starlight Echo wide stereo delay

128 presets · Clean + Authentic engines · VST3 + Standalone · Windows 10/11"

"Turn any beat into a retro video game soundtrack in seconds.

Remember the music from the old game consoles? The hero theme you hummed for days, the coin sound and the boss battle music? Tropica Nova puts that whole sound in your DAW. Load a preset, press a key, and your track sounds like a game cartridge from the golden age of gaming.

It's built from the four voices of a classic 8-bit console: two pulse waves, a triangle and a noise channel. Then it adds the tools today's producers want, so your chip sounds are ready for a real mix.

Play a Whole Chord With One Finger

The old game composers faked chords by flipping through notes super fast. Tropica Nova does that for you. Pick a chord type, hold one key, and you get that shimmering chiptune chord right away. You don't need any music theory.

128 Presets, Ready to Drop In

You don't have to build anything from scratch. Pick a sound and start making music. There are 8 categories with 16 presets each:

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Audio Damage Introduces Sandbender FM Performance Synth

via Audio Damage

"FM synthesis has always had a bit of an image problem. Everybody loves the sound, but nobody wants to program it, which is why most of the FM you've heard in your life was a factory preset that nobody dared to touch. (Touching it was a fast way to turn an electric piano in to a fax machine.) With Sandbender, the four operators are where a sound starts. They're all here, in ten factory algorithms or any routing you feel like drawing, but every operator has a wave shaper of its own, there's a wavefolder, a sub oscillator, and six flavors of noise alongside them, and the whole lot runs through a proper filter and a low pass gate. If all you want is a nice FM bell, I'm happy to report that Sandbender makes a very nice FM bell. It just seems a shame to stop there.

We also tried to make the programming part less of a chore, since that was the whole problem in the first place. Modulation is drag-and-drop: grab a source off the rail (envelopes, LFOs, a couple of function generators, a step sequencer, the macros, and all the MIDI and MPE stuff) and drop it on pretty much any knob. And if you'd rather not program at all, nobody's going to blame you. The GENETICS page breeds new patches out of whatever you're playing, and PERFORM gives you two nodes to shove around the screen, plus a gesture recorder for when you stumble on something good. Six of our effects sit at the end of the chain, in whatever order you like, and there are 260-odd presets in the box to get you going.

Same as the rest of our catalog: Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS. No DRM, no subscriptions, no dongles, perpetual license."

ANAMORPH - THIS YAMAHA AN1X FREE VST EMULATION IS OUTSTANDING !!

video upload by Sergio Frias

ANAMORPH Analog Physical Modeling Control Synthesizer. Not to be mixed with Isla Electronics' recently revealed VAN1X.

"ANAMORPH is a FREE vst EMULATION of the AMAZING Yamaha AN1X

sounds demonstration at 3:05"

No link or additional details at this point.

Update: word is this emulation vibe coded, required the AN1X ROM, but was abandoned by the developer.

ADC26: Open University - Additive Synthesis Supercomputer

video upload by sonicstate

"We spoke to Alan at Audio Dev 26 about an Additive Synthesis Supercomputer, a research project focused on high-partial-count synthesis and a more practical way to describe complex evolving sounds.

The project is at an early stage and now produces musical material rather than only test tones. It is not a real-time synth. Instead, it uses a distributed systems approach, where many computers can share the calculations needed for additive synthesis. Current simulations already handle a few thousand partials on a basic laptop.

The system uses the Hertz L language to define sounds. Code changes can be reflected on the next loop, depending on complexity. Rendering can also start from an arbitrary point in the audio, rather than requiring a full piece to render from the beginning.

Features include polyphonic operation, partial-by-partial morphing between harmonic, noisy and percussive material, and spatial placement for individual partials. Playback is effectively sample playback, while the rendering stage handles the main computation. CPU cores, GPUs, Apple silicon, x64 systems and local compute clusters are all relevant to the project's direction.

More Info: https://musiclab.stem.open.ac.uk/"

Keysolutions Sounds - Traveler - MPE Arps are so much more expressive! #osmose #traveler #MPE

video upload by Scott McAuley Sounds and KeySolutions Sounds

"Patches will be available at https://www.orano.co.uk/shop or http://www.synthsounds.co.uk

© Scott McAuley. All rights reserved.
#custom #sounds"

Synth Show - Ep244 - Obsession Vol 2 - OB-X8 Release

video upload by GEOSynths

"To celebrate the release of my follow up Bank for the OB-X8 - Obsession Vol 2, I’ll be dedicating the Show to it, playing some sounds, updating you on GEOSpace Plugin and some general Synth Chat.

https://github.com/GEOSynths/GEOSpace.... (Select 'Releases' on the right)"

Obsession Vol 2 posts

GForce Oberheim Matrix-12 - All Factory Presets Playthrough (No Talking)

video upload by Abel Mendoza Productions and Abel Mendoza

"Took some time to sit down with GForce Oberheim Matrix-12 and play through every factory patches. Hope you enjoy!

Get GForce Oberheim Matrix-12 here!
https://www.gforcesoftware.com/produc...

Check out my sound store.
http://thatworshipsound.com"

VAN1x - Yamaha AN1x Emulation from Isla Electronics Incoming

via Isla Electronics

"Looking for AN1x CURRENT OWNERS for beta testing.. apply by support ticket.."

Isla Electronics of course brought us the well recieved Asyx Alesis Andromeda A6 emulation.

Squark Box - Free 16 neuron feedback synthesizer

video upload by e y l v y

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/squark-...


Squark Box is a sixteen-neuron feedback network you can play, built in the spirit of the analog neural-network synthesizers of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

It is a small cybernetic system where every neuron listens to the others and answers back. Think pulses, drones, chirps and slowly shifting rhythms, held somewhere between equilibrium and chaos. You don't tell it what to play; you steer it, and it steers itself.

• 16 neurons on a live round screen. Tap to rewire them, or turn the seeds for a new network.

• Feedback everywhere: neurons pulse, resonate and pull each other into step or out of it.

• A rungler: a shift-register pattern generator, for patterns that repeat or wander.

• Twin resonant filter peaks that sing.

• Modulation: any neuron can move any knob, so the network can turn its own controls.

• Rest, to break chatter into clusters, and STRIKE, to jolt the whole network.

• A spring tank and a blur, for space.

• Four memory slots.

• Mutate nudges a few knobs; Dice randomizes the whole box, cables and all.

• AUv3 for AUM, GarageBand, Logic and Live, as well as a standalone app.

Free, with no ads, no account and no data collected.