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.
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"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).
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"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.
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"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.
"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
"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."
"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."
"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.
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
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.
▬▬▬ 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.
"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."
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.
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
"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:
