Modified / circuit bent Alesis DM5 drum brain module

video upload by circuitbenders.co.uk

"Modified Alesis DM5 electronic drum brain module running via midi.

Includes a 25 way percussion glitching patchbay, with 2 x 3 way patching multiples, 2 x patchable switches and a sample reclocking knob.

Theres no literally space anywhere on the front or back panel to route any wiring out of the case to mount mods externally, so the mods had to go in the case lid. Obviously it can't be racked anymore. See less"

'I Feel Love', & Moroder Free downloads for Circuit Tracks & FM-1

video upload by Guinan

"The original version of this track has always been one of my consistently watched videos. I asked subscribers which tracks they would like to download amongst my other pieces, but this is one I chose!

I hope you have fun with it - the structure is quite simple to follow and should make sense to even someone starting out with the Tracks (it was my first 'song' on the Tracks).

Download the Circuit Tracks pack with this song here,
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f0awjt..."

And:

GIO, The Album! (Circuit Tracks & FM-1) - FREE DOWNLOAD

video upload by Guinan

"Something a little different this time.

Download for FREE what could be the first ‘concept’ album produced for the Circuit Tracks. (Link below)

This is a tribute to the pioneering ‘space disco’ of Giorgio Moroder and many others.
Think of the music playing in every club the hero visits in SF movies...apart from maybe the Cantina in Mos Eisley (lol, 'space jazz' not my thing...).
These early tracks and others shaped our ideas of music for the future, and their influence can be found still hidden away in Trance, Synthwave etc.

Nine tracks..all in one Tracks pack.

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A Seamless Bridge Between Eurorack, DAWs, and Grooveboxes – Introducing Bastl 1999

video upload by Bastl Instruments

"Bastl Neo Trinity brought the groovebox-style, gestural modulation workflow into Eurorack. Now, 1999 bridges the worlds of Eurorack, grooveboxes, and DAWs, opening up new possibilities for hybrid setups that are easy to build and fun to explore. Let Eurorack do what it does best. Let your groovebox or DAW do what it does best. Bring them together seamlessly with 1999 and get the best of both worlds.

Bridge to a Seamless setup

1999 is a TRS and USB MIDI expander for the Neo Trinity modulation hub, turning it into a powerful piece of studio infrastructure and making it easy to integrate with external MIDI gear. The classic TRS MIDI IN and OUT bring MIDI connectivity to your modular setup, and the MIDI IN is optically isolated to help prevent USB ground-loop noise. The USB-C port switches between DEVICE and HOST modes, allowing you to connect a wide range of USB MIDI devices and even power hosted devices directly from your modular system.

Chain of Command
With the new 2.0 firmware, Neo Trinity becomes a versatile MIDI-to-CV and CV-to-MIDI interface: Record CV/GATE sequences directly from MIDI input or from external CV signals connected to channels E and F. Control Neo Trinity parameters via MIDI CC, send knob movements to your external gear, or turn CV/GATE pairs into MIDI note output.
You can also chain more than one Neo Trinity with 1999 to create an ultimate Eurorack control system.

A COMPLETE TRILOGY
1999 is the latest (and final, for now) addition to our Matrix-themed Eurorack Control trilogy, joining our previous release, Déjà Vu – Double Fader Agent.

Now you have a chance to get all three modules in different bundles at a better price! Just click on the pictures below to get the ultimate Eurorack Control setup."

“First Flight” ✨🚀🎛️ - Daphne Oram - Oramics

video upload by Stephano Gavilanes

"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 ✨

Hope you enjoy it! 🤙🏼

The App is available as a free download: https://signalfunctionset.com/project...

Music composed and recorded by Stephano Gavilanes.© Copyright 2026. All rights reserved."

Note there was also an Oramics for iOS by Strangeloop Limited back in 2011.

DFAP — Slow w/ Binary synth

video upload by Max Alyokhin

https://dfap.bandcamp.com
https://github.com/MaxAlyokhin/binary...
Update: Binary synth is from two years ago.

Binary synth

"Audio synthesis from binary code of any file"

"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."

Binary synth is the app

DFAP is the artist

HAINBACH's new plugin needs a bit of explaining | AudioThing Seconds

video upload by

"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."

Melodee for the MPC Sample: 16-tracks & multisample kits, plug-ins and 4-track looper (Not a mod!)

video upload by Keremimo

You might recall Melodee for the M-VAVE FM-1. It has now been ported to the MPC Sample.

"Melodee is a free, open-source groovebox app for the Akai MPC Sample. It runs from the microSD card and changes nothing on the MPC itself.

This video walks through it: 16 tracks, one per pad, each a kit, a plug-in instrument or a MIDI track; MPC drum programs that load as a whole kit; multisampled instruments (SFZ, MPC keygroups, EXS, SoundFont) that stream from the card, with their zones laid out on screen; grain clouds; VST3 and VST2 plug-ins, with the Melodee Poly, PD and Chip synths; Keys with scales and chord layouts, and an arpeggiator; step sequencing with parameter locks, ratchets and Euclid; a piano roll; Motion recording, LFOs and macros; six-slot effect chains on every track, bus and the master, with sidechain keying; scenes and follow actions; a Song timeline with export to stems and MIDI; and a four-loop Looper.

How this was made: every screen and every sound comes from Melodee's own code, run on a computer with a scripted hand pressing the MPC's buttons, pads and knobs. It isn't camera footage, and the MPC Sample on screen is a drawing. The music is a demo project made for this video at 90 BPM: drums from the Dirty Drummer Demo kit, a Farfisa from Vintage Organs 3 Demo, a boys' choir multisample, and a Rusty Drums 3 kit loaded on camera; the bass and the pluck are the Melodee Poly plug-in.

https://github.com/keremimo/melodee-s...

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Mutable Dreams 2.0 | From a Biome to a Piece — M-VAVE FM-1

video upload by Kid Bunka

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"Thank you for the love you’ve shown Mutable Dreams. I started it because I wanted to make an instrument I could get lost in. Hearing the music you’ve made with it, reading your suggestions and seeing people take the time to test a build on their own FM-1 has meant more to me than I can put into a version number. I’m grateful to every person who has played it, shared it, reported a bug or sent a kind word.

You asked for sound worlds that felt further apart, clearer ways to build patterns and more room to make the instrument your own. Those conversations shaped 2.0. In this film you’ll hear the FM-1 moving between Biomes, keeping a voice alive as a Journey changes section, and turning a simple pattern into something you can keep exploring. The sounds and screens come from the instrument.

What’s new in 2.0
• 272 factory Biomes including Blank and 632 tone presets
• Journey Arranger, six-track Sequencer Grid and MIDI Learn
• Living Links, Biome Drift and USB Screen Mirror
• Six individual USB audio voices plus the stereo mix

Play in your browser, hear the examples or read the illustrated guide:
https://kidbee85-beep.github.io/mutab...

Download, source and hardware test notes:
https://github.com/kidbee85-beep/muta...

Mutable Dreams is free and open source for the M-VAVE FM-1. I’d love to hear what you make with it. Thank you for being part of this.

Kid Bunka

#MutableDreams #MVAVEFM1 #GenerativeMusic"

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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Elastic OSC 2.2 Is Out! Mod Animations, MIDI & New Presets

video upload by Elastic Instruments

00:00 Intro
00:20 New MIDI Features (MIDI Ports & MIDI learn) for mobile devices in standalone
01:13 New Presets - John Cohen
02:00 Mod Animation: New Dots & Lines show the modulation effects on a parameter
06:28 New Presets - The Unperson

Elastic OSC 2.2 Update brings a lot of great new features and comes with a bunch of great new presets again.

Added MPE, LPG & LFO modulation animations
Improved arpeggiator timing
Added presets by John Cohen
Added presets by The UnPerson
Added MIDI input port & channel selection (mobile standalone)
Added MIDI Learn / controller mapping (mobile standalone)
Added Ableton Link Sync & Link Audio integration (iOS standalone)"

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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Korg Pa5X System Update 1.5 | New Features Overview

video upload by KORG INC.

New Features of Pa5X Operating System 1.5.0

Flexible import of MIDI data into a Style

Pads can start in sync with Styles and Songs

Pads in “Lock” status continue to play when changing Style or SongBook Entry

Undo function in Song Edit mode, including history of undoable actions

Search with pre-selection of found items, without automatic selection

Info box with tooltips for detailed information on the Search results

Ellipsis (…) feature for showing longer file paths and file names without cutting the end of the name

Sound Range On/Off and Wrap Around controls added to the “Home” mode, for immediate access and Style tracks programming

Smart Fill control settings, letting the accompaniment tracks continue playing after a Fill is triggered after the first beat of a measure

Fast Play control settings, for letting MIDI Songs start immediately or playing back the setup measure as well

General system improvements

40 brand new Styles of different genres

noiz virus by SPIKE the Percussionist

via https://llllllll.co/t/noiz-virus/75830

"noiz virus reads the real genomes of 42 viruses and plays them or warps your audio input.

noiz virus reads the real genomes of 42 viruses and plays them. (Number 42 isn’t even a virus.) Every three letters (a codon) make an amino acid, and every amino acid becomes a note in the virus’s own scale. STOP codons are rests, and the start codon AUG plays accented.

Each virus has its own look, scale, sound, rhythm and effects. You can mutate them as they play, save the strains you like, and use the genome to chop up your live input with softcut. Grid and arc are supported, and it follows MIDI clock.
Requirements

norns (or norns shield)
optional: varibright 128 grid (vertical or portrait)
optional: arc (4 rings)
optional: something plugged into the norns input, for the sample side"

See this previous post for a session featuring noiz virus.

Retro Song Bird

video upload by Bird Cartel

via the developer:

"Hi! I’m a solo developer working on Retro Song Bird - a music player for your Game Boy games.

Plug in any Game Boy or Game Boy Color cartridge and the music starts playing, just like a cassette or CD. In addition to music playback, Retro Song Bird can back-up and write ROMs and save files, can be used as a USB webcam with a Game Boy Camera, and can even wake you up every day as your alarm.

I’m excited to get Retro Song Bird in the hands of musicians and chiptune artists. For the first time ever, they can plug a physical cartridge in and get stereo line-out as well as USB Audio with each of the Game Boys four instruments broken out as separate tracks. Using MIDI, they can control playback, track selection, and even tempo so they can beat match two cartridges and perform a DJ set. Here’s a video of me, a non-musician, remixing the chorus of Tetris with the drums of everyone’s favorite Japan-exclusive fish finder, Bandai Pocket Sonar: [video below]

I’m launching a Kickstarter 11/15 to raise funds to turn the prototype into a real production run: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/birdcartel/retro-song-bird"

I did not expect Tetris × Pocket Sonar to produce such a banger 🤘

video upload by Bird Cartel

via Kickstarter

Retro Song Bird supports Game Boy® or Game Boy Color® cartridges. Once inserted, their soundtracks begin to play.

SUPPORTS

Supports 1,900+ games. Plug in your favorite and let the soundtrack teleport you back in time.

Every track, plus sound effects

Physical controls for next, previous and volume

Stereo line out for your hi-fi

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Plinky 12 Chords, Blocks and Syntakt: Polyrhythmic Arps

video upload by Making Sound Machines

"In this video, Enrica and Roland from Making Sound Machines play a melodic house track, performing live with the built-in polyphonic arpeggiator.

Plinky 12 sends a MIDI clock signal to the Elektron Syntakt, synchronizing the tempo between both devices. Syntakt is a fantastic hybrid digital-analogue drum machine and provides the beats you hear in this clip. All synth sounds are produced with Plinky 12's internal synth engine.

Plinky 12's internal sequencer advances through a harmonic progression, while Enrica performs on the touch surface, editing the polyphonic arpeggio. First she extends the length of the loop, leading to great polyrhythmic shifts over the 4/4 house beat.

As the track progresses, Enrica taps the surface to add or delete notes in the arp pattern.

Roland operates a second Plinky 12, the Blocks panel to the left. It is configured to send MIDI messages from an XY surface to Plinky 12 Chords. This allows him to change the sound parameters remotely while Enrica performs on Chords at the same time.

This track was composed for a live set at Club Synth, an event our friends Stijn and Priscilla from This is Not Rocket Science are hosting and organizing quarterly at Ruigoord near Amsterdam. Thank you for inviting us and putting in the hard work to create such a lovely event!

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Eurorack MIDI-BLE: USB, Bluetooth & Hardware MIDI in One Module

video upload by

"Meet the Deftaudio Eurorack MIDI-BLE Interface, a compact 4HP MIDI hub that connects your computer, hardware synthesizers, and wireless MIDI controllers into one unified setup.

Three MIDI connections, one module

USB MIDI 3×3
Connect directly to your computer or iPad. Class-compliant operation means no special drivers are required.

2x TRS MIDI ports
Connect your favorite hardware synthesizers, sequencers, and controllers. Each port can be configured for TRS MIDI Type A or Type B.

Bluetooth LE MIDI
Connect wirelessly to iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, and Linux BLE-MIDI applications. Play from your tablet or controller without running another cable.

Smart MIDI routing

Two operating modes let you configure how your equipment communicates:

Green mode: Direct USB-to-TRS routing with a shared wireless and USB MIDI connection.

Red mode: Merges the two TRS MIDI ports so connected hardware can share MIDI data.

Just 4HP of Eurorack space

Product page: https://deftaudio.com/store/tproduct/...

Hardware design and firmware: https://github.com/Deftaudio"

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FORM + ATEK303: Two Firmwares Jamming on the M-VAVE FM-1!

video upload by HanzVolt

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"Live jam session using the brand new ATEK303 and FORM firmwares on the M-VAVE FM-1 — two firmwares jamming together.

Cyborg face available at https://hansvolt.com — only a few slots left!

Get the only female cyborg face version at https://github.com"

The ATEK303 voice and its acid pattern generator, in a pocket synth. Press PLAY and a line plays; turn the knobs and it moves. No computer and no cables, if you like.

The ATEK303 voice

The same engine as the VCV Rack module: Open303 with the ATEK oscillator and diode filter, modelled on the 303 schematic. Against the original the difference stays at -51 dB: it is the same sound. With its fine tuning, as in VCV.

The acid pattern generator

SEQ makes a new line of up to 64 steps; the mutations change the rhythm, the octaves or the slides and accents. It is the ATEK303 SEQ algorithm: the same seed gives the same pattern in VCV and on the FM-1.

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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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SM-1 - A Moog Matriarch/Grandmother synth emulation | By Dubspot

video upload by e y l v y

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sm-1-se...


Dubspot SM-1 is a Semi-Modular East Coast Synth for iPad and iPhone. Start with a playable instrument, then shape it with interchangeable modules, patch cords and effects.

BUILD YOUR INSTRUMENT

Choose MK1 or MK2 modules for oscillators, filters, modulation, envelopes and more. Add extra modulation and envelope units. Change panel colours and save your own sounds.

PATCH AND EXPLORE

Drag patch cords between audio and control connections. Adjust each cord’s level and polarity, choose its colour, or pull an end free to disconnect it. The rack overview helps you navigate larger instruments.

SHAPE YOUR SOUND

Explore oscillator sync, pulse-width modulation, resonant filters, envelopes, an arpeggiator and sequencer. Spring Reverb is always available. Add Delay or Grains effects for stereo echoes, frozen textures and evolving granular layers.

PLAY YOUR WAY

Use the on-screen keyboard and pitch and modulation wheels, or connect a USB or Bluetooth MIDI controller. Choose MIDI inputs and channels in the standalone app.

AUv3 INCLUDED

Load Dubspot SM-1 as an Audio Unit instrument in a compatible host. The host handles MIDI routing and saves the instrument with your project.

Includes factory presets and an in-app control guide. No account, subscription or in-app purchases. Requires iOS or iPadOS 16 or later. Desktop plug-in formats are separate products.