"I built OZMA, a free groovebox for handhelds in open beta. Its MORPH instrument turns a sound into something you can play as notes. The sampler lets you slice and sequence sounds alongside synths and effects. Version 0.9.2 adds a folder for your own WAVs on the SD card.
"OZMA is a groovebox for handheld consoles. Chop a sample, build a beat step by step, then launch clips and jam live with your handheld’s controls.
Make music on your handheld
Sequence beats and melodies. Set velocity, chance and timing for individual steps.
Chop samples. Slice sounds and build patterns around them.
Play live. Launch clips and shape the jam with performance effects."
"Finally the famous belgian filter as authentic FX-plugin.
After endless hours of measurement of the original V1 hardware and comparing and finetuning over and over again i can proudly present it to the public.
Please get your copy here.
"A dual-filter effect shaped by hardware measurements.
Verman Dualfilter is an audio effect for macOS by verstaerker, inspired by the Sherman Filterbank. It grew out of extensive hardware measurements and direct listening comparisons, with particular attention to the interaction of input drive, resonance, saturation and modulation.
"A stripped-down version of Serum for the M-VAVE FM-1.
Firmware for the FM-1, an editor in your browser, and a VST3 for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Firmware V1.06 · Guide version 1.0 · November 2026
Get it, play it, install it: shrub.audio
Made by Steve Duda, with a lot of help from the people who tested it early and told us what was broken. Thank you, all of you.
Questions, bugs, ideas, love letters: steve@xferrecords.com, or the Feedback button in the editor (it fills in the details we need).
SHRUB is copyright 2026 Xfer Inc. All rights reserved.
SHRUB is free. It isn't made, sold or supported by M-VAVE, and installing it is at your own risk (the installer only writes the part of the FM-1 an update is meant to, and you can always go back to M-VAVE's firmware). Serum is a trademark of Xfer Records. M-VAVE and FM-1 are the trademarks of their owners. VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH."
"Raw analogue tone with modern reach. Sit back and hear 10 patches from the GForce Oberheim OB-1, played straight through with no talking.
In 1978, Oberheim released the OB-1, the first programmable monophonic synthesiser. Our emulation keeps its vintage character, then takes it somewhere the original never went: up to 16 voices, from a synth that originally had one.
X-Modifier Technology adds deep parameter modulation through the X-LFO and X-ADSR. It includes chorus, delay, reverb, and a high-pass filter, plus an arpeggiator and a 16-step sequencer with macro automation and probability.
"Meet bazillOS 0.9.3 beta 1 for the Polyend Tracker Mini, by Kid Bunka.
A new SPECTRA spectral synth, musical PREVIEW on all twelve engines, expanded presets and a phosphor redesign. This film explores the new voice, menu cells, engine views, PERC kits and demo-scene boot/shutdown graphics.
0:00 A new culture
0:07 The new look
0:17 SPECTRA
0:30 PREVIEW
0:41 All twelve engines
0:53 More drum cultures
1:04 See the sound
1:16 Screensavers
1:26 Fixes underneath
1:38 Keep the culture growing
Music: 'Phosphor Bloom' — an original Kid Bunka studio score. Spectral parts use the released SPECTRA DSP and factory presets; drums, bass and mix processing are host-produced. This is not an audio recording from the device.
Visuals: native source-rendered UI previews with host font/icon stand-ins, plus editorial feature graphics. Not device camera footage.
Device testing of bz093p was reported passed by Kid Bunka. The released source was independently rebuilt byte for byte. Back up your SD card before updating; keep matching project backups when returning to earlier firmware. Older builds cannot open SPECTRA projects.
Independent community firmware. Not endorsed by Polyend. See the bundled component licences.
"I built a free browser emulator for the M-VAVE FM-1. It plays the
stock firmware plus 200+ community firmwares with no install or
flashing, and includes a "How does a synthesizer work?" course that
uses the real firmware sound. Built on Joakim Eriksson's MIT-licensed
fm1-emu; not affiliated with M-VAVE.
"Sometimes all you have is a simple beat, a dry synth or a handful of found sounds. MIDGAR takes a few minimal sounds and turns them into moving, multilayered sound carpets or a dirty barrage of shimmering glitchy delays.
MIDGAR features a chain of cleverly interacting effect sections (each one can be dialled in separately) which can be used for intricately glitched drums, massive lush ambient shimmer reverbs, and lots of creative stuff in between.
- The Phrase Delay records rhythmic snippets of your sound, plays them back at various speeds and bounces them across the stereo field, optionally introducing stuttery glitches.
- DS-1 then dirties up the resulting stacked sound with a modified guitar effect (if you want).
The Sequential Prophet VS was a masterpiece in design and sound in 1986. 4 digital oscillators that you could mix between in realtime via a handy joystick forever changed what a synthesizer could sound like, all running through analog filters downstream. It wasn't really a wavetable capable synth, but it felt like it and sounded like it. It was digital, with an analog heart. Unfortunately, it was released during the heyday of the Yamaha DX7, and that won the publics heart. It was Sequential's final synthesizer, before the company went into bankruptcy. Dave Smith would eventually go to work for Korg, where he would design the Wavestation, a fully digital synth that was a next-gen version of the VS. Whether you know it or not, you've heard its sound on early NIN Pretty Hate Machine era and even rock bands entered the synth domain with its sounds.
Enter VICTORY: the ultimate evolution of Vector Synthesis.
"Scaler 3.4 is here! Discover a whole new world of harmony.
Our latest FREE update introduces a completely redesigned Discover & Variations experience, Dynamic Sketch Lanes, 30 new Explore chord constellations and powerful new creative tools to help you discover, develop and transform your musical ideas.
🎹 What's New in Scaler 3.4?
🔹 Discover & Variations – Explore inspiring chord possibilities with intelligent Diatonic, Borrowed and Adventurous suggestions.
🔹 New Chord Voicing Modes – Explore Dynamic, Inversions, Open, Guitar, Drop 2 and Drop 3 voicings & edit chords in the Variations Page
🔹 30 New Explore Constellations – Discover 10 new genres, including Neo Soul, Afro House, UK Speed Garage, Melodic Techno and Indie & Dream Pop, each with Bright, Dark and Neutral variations.
🔹 Dynamic Sketch Lanes – Create, audition and develop multiple chord progression ideas with improved chord editing and flexible arrangement workflows.
🔹 Enhanced Chord Editing – Refine individual chord notes, explore alternative harmonies and take advantage of improved MIDI editing.
🔹 More Creative Freedom – Enhanced MIDI Bind, Motion drag-and-drop, custom default presets and numerous workflow improvements.
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There's never been a better time to get Scaler 3.
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Whether you're starting a new track, exploring fresh harmonic possibilities or refining an existing arrangement, Scaler 3.4 makes it easier to turn inspiration into music."
"Brand new from DMT Audio is Tapped! A versatile delay with 16-taps and 3 output buses, along with CV-controlled delay time, multiplier and spread controls!
A few patches showcasing the different sounds and textures that you get with Tapped in combination with other modules.
Tapped is the latest effect to join the DMT Audio collection, although it's actually the first effect I started working on in 2023! Originally to be based on the ultra-rare Buchla 288 Time Domain Processor, recreating the looping section was getting too complicated, so I eventually stripped it out, and expanded on the tap side. This module has 16-steps, 3-buses to send each tap to, CV-controllable delay time and multiplier/spread controls for messing it all up!
Inputs, Outputs & Controls
Gain Sliders - Controls the volume of each tap. 100% is full, 0% is completely off.
Bus Selection Switches - Determines which of the individual BUS outputs to send the tapped signal to.
"The All-New U-He Diva Presets by Best-Selling Ultimate Patches (no talking).
Available Now (FREE or paid) only at https://www.ultimatepatches.com"
"Ultimate Patches, creators of well-received factory presets (JN-80 Banks A-E, Polyeight Bank A, UB-1, Pro-VS-Mini, Uno Synth etc.) has unleashed a total refresh of the U-he Diva synth: U-he Diva Ultimate Patches — Volumes 1+2 is the all-new collection of high-quality Diva presets that bring the synth new life with vintage and modern polys, leads, and basses — plus classic non-synth instruments including electric guitars, electric basses, string sections, brass, percussion, acoustic pianos, wurly and rhodes electric pianos, organs including B3 and farfisa, voices, orchestral, and world instruments.
The new collection spans the genres of 70s, 80s & 90s synth classics, plus vintage pop & rock, modern pop, retrowave, R&B, orchestral, cinematic, hiphop, vaporwave, trance, retrocade, latin, reggae, jazz, chiptune, reggaeton, tech house and deep house.
Pricing & Availability:
Available now as an instant digital download at ultimatepatches.com with Black Friday prices of $14.99 per volume or $24.99 for all 150 Patches.
"First session using the Daphne App, a software version of the Oramics composition technique developed by electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram based on drawings-to-sound originally using 35mm film and the Oramics machine👌🏽
This app not only exports the audio recording, but also generates the midi file of your drawings. I used both files to further compose this track using my own samples, and processing as experimentation. The final outcome feels like a dream experimental collaboration between Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire ✨
"A web-synthesizer that generates sound from the binary code of any files (databending-instrument). It can synthesize sound directly in the browser, or be a generator of MIDI messages to external devices or DAWs, turning any file into a score. All the application code is written in Javascript and along with everything you need is packed into a single .html-file of about 450kb. The synthesizer doesn't need internet, it can be downloaded and run locally on any device with a browser.
The application reads the file sequentially, and due to the high speed of reading and random deviation of reading duration, we can get quite unpredictable generation of timbre nuances, and at certain settings we can switch to granular synthesis."
"Filterbanks - few things in audio that I love more! It's little wonder that I made my dream studio filterbank with my friend Carlo at AudioThing, Seconds. But I see filterbanks being misunderstood as fancy graphic EQs. That is only to be expected, as few people got their hands on them. These are rare tools from the beginning of experimental music, oftentimes taken from signal analysis rather than audio departments. Only the resurgence of modular has made them a bit more known. So in this video I am using Seconds to show a few techniques on how I like to use them beyond simple filtering, and what lovely tools they (and of course Seconds) could be for your audio and sound design experimentation.
Buy Seconds here: https://www.audiothing.net/effects/se..."
"Seconds is a spectral sound design effect that uses bandpass filters, ring modulation, saturation, panning, and sample rate reduction to creatively shape any signal.
At its heart is a bank of 48 bandpass filters tuned in “seconds”, or whole-tone steps. Cut up sounds, sequence their spectrum via MIDI, or freeze the spectrum of one sound and apply it to another.
From lush modulation and rotary effects to harsh metallic tones, booming bass drums, and glassy pings, Seconds is a rich toolbox for experimental sound design."
"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.
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.
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.
"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!
"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 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.
