Avalon TB-303 VST by Denver Synth

video upload by manmade madman

"The Abstrakt Avalon was made to perfectly replicate everything in a vintage Roland TB-303, and add features like an additional mod envelope, more knobs for greater control, and excellent metal build quality. But they were rare, expensive on the secondary market, and hard to find. Some people have waited half a decade for delivery.

Until now.

Made by a complete 303 madman deep in a laboratory under strictest of top-secrecy and tightest guarded listening chambers, this digital version gives you everything you could ever want, then goes a little further with more programming modes, tweakable settings for slide/glide and resonance, Devil Fish mods, adds all the filter cartridges (even your own!) new colored skins, and the should-be-patentable EZ buttons. Also included for analog authenticity is the db-cell technology, adding pure analog noise modulation for non-repeatability where it counts; in vintage circuits. Best of all: it matches the hardware through rigorous test harnesses, and countless hours of listening. If it didn't sound authentic, it wouldn't get released.

Thank goodness, it does.

Available now: store.denversynth.com

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ZEROBOY: a Zero-input mixer demo. This time with a beat!

video upload by manmade madman

"Sometimes, you just have to have a play!

Available now at store.denversynth.com"

ZEROBOY

Zero-input mixer. DIY noise artist's playground.
A digital no-input mixer: four channels, two effect returns that are full mixer channels in their own right, db-cell running as the board's own noise floor, and a live patch bay — everything you hear starts as the board's own hiss going round a feedback loop until it finds a mode. CASCADE feeds each channel into the next, wrapping channel four back to channel one; CHEAP/SOLID decides how hard the shared power rail sags and lets every channel modulate every other one through it.

ZEROBOY plugin GUI
Four mixer channels, each with seven selectable circuit topologies and Mackie-style 3-band EQ, plus a CASCADE that feeds straight into the next channel — channel four wraps back to channel one

Reverb and delay aren't send effects — they're two more full mixer channels with their own gain, EQ, and aux sends, already wired into a two-node feedback loop with each other

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INFIDEL low fidelity DIY modular synth from DenverSynthLabs

video upload by manmade madman

"INFIDEL shown here put through its paces.
This is an intentionally non-musical demo to show the power and sound of INFIDEL. It gets loud. If you don't like it, good.
The point is, you've never heard a VST sound like this, ever.
What we make hasn't existed before.
So, stop chasing other people's sound, and make something that's your very own for a change.
With roughly 1/3rd of the available modules shown here, you can tweak until morning.
Just make sure you get some sleep sometimes!

store.denversynth.com"



"INFIDEL is a full modular synth built around one idea: every module runs its own cheap sign-magnitude DAC, at its own sample rate and bit depth, so the whole rack can sound exactly as broken as you want it to — on purpose. You don't have to earn that sound with a soldering iron or a twenty-minute boot sequence. Hit INIT FULL and you've got a working 47-module, 81-cable patch across four buses — lead, drone, texture, drums — before you've turned a single knob. Hit EZ on any module and it rolls a new setting that's checked to never go silent. Cables snap to the nearest free jack, drop onto an existing cable to insert a module inline, or swap one module for another while keeping every cable that matches by name. It's fast to get a sound out of, and it stays deep — a 53-module library and KEY-locked lo-fi clocking mean there's always one more place to take it.

- 53 user modules across Sources, Filters, Effects, Drums, Utilities and Logic — including an 8-model VCF BANK (CS-80, IR3109, SSM2044, CEM3320, SSM2040, STEINER, EMS DIODE, WASP) and effects ported from SpringBoy, BucketBoy, Thermion and Ironwall

- Every module runs its own cheap lo-fi DAC — RATE 1–32 kHz, BITS 2–16 — and KEY locks a module's clock to the last note played, so the grit tracks pitch instead of just buzzing underneath it

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Korg Wavestate SE - Klaus Schulze Tribute Walkthrough

video upload by LFOstore

"In this video chief of www.lfo.store Nick Klimenko presenting latest
Korg Wavestate soundset - Klaus Schulze Tribute Vol.2

Using MW & 4 macro controllers with berlin school style playing you
can get very authentic sounds.

Also this sounds are very usable in any electronic music genre.

Working with Wavestate - hardware & native versions.

BUY: https://lfo.sellfy.store/p/korg-waves...

Introducing 'Tribute Vol.2' soundset with 40 melodic & atmospheric performances for Korg Wavestate splitted on:

Classic & modern Berlin sequences
Complex arpeggios & rhythmica
Warmy Moogy leads & solos
Beautiful big Polys & strings
Atmospheric Pads

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Roland D-50 vs D-110: Can You Hear the Difference?

video upload by Ian Dixon

"The Roland D-50 and Roland D-110 both come from Roland's late-80s Linear Arithmetic synthesis era, but do they actually sound the same? In this blind comparison I play similar D-50 and D-110 sounds side by side, including warm pads, Soundtrack, synth bells, electric pianos, synth brass, Fantasia/Fantasy style patches, and dual-layer sounds, then reveal which synth was which.

The D-50 is the classic performance synth behind so many iconic digital sounds, while the D-110 is the rackmount, multi-timbral workhorse built for MIDI studios. This test is about the real character of each instrument: the modulation, the shimmer, the effects, the PCM attack, and how close the D-110 can get to the D-50 in practice.

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Free Roland D-50 Editor & Librarian – Edit Patches in Your Browser

video upload by Ian Dixon

"My free Roland D-50 Editor Librarian is a browser-based Web MIDI tool for backing up, browsing, importing and editing D-50 sounds without sending your patch data to the cloud.

In this video I show the full workflow from the YouTube transcript: connecting the D-50 over MIDI, enabling SysEx, reading the current edit buffer, opening a patch library, sending sounds to the synth, receiving a full bulk dump from the D-50, saving a library backup, importing SysEx banks, and editing classic D-50 patches such as Fantasia. The editor also makes it easier to work with the D-50's upper and lower tones, partials, PCM and synthesis structures, ring modulation, filter and amp envelopes, reverb, tuning and patch management.

The aim is to give the Roland D-50 a modern librarian/editor workflow: build a large library of card sounds and custom patches, search for sounds quickly, send patches to the edit buffer when recording, and avoid constantly swapping cards or managing small internal banks by hand.

https://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/TDL...

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The Crow Hill Company Announces Availability of Utterly Terrifying CHILDREN’S CHOIR

Utterly Terrifying Choir - WALKTHROUGH video upload by CROW HILL

Press release follows:


The Crow Hill Company announces availability of CHILDREN’S CHOIR, crafting terrifying sounds from school-age children to deliver broad spectrum of timbral possibilities

EDINBURGH, UK: The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of CHILDREN’S CHOIR — crafting terrifying sounds from a school-age troupe of boys singing with just the right amount of ‘beautiful menace’ and an ability to be creative while working with the Edinburgh-based enterprise in support of delivering an instrument based around an expertly curated sample-set with a broad range of timbral possibilities designed by media composers with other media composers in mind — as of September 21…

Asked about the task of crafting CHILDREN’S CHOIR, The Crow Hill Company co-founder and media composer Christian Henson has his tongue not entirely out of his creative cheek in response, resurrecting the famous showbiz warning usually credited to American comedian W.C. Fields, effectively, by way of opening: “Never work with animals and children! So what’s this going to be like? Getting kids to be slightly demonic, evil, scary… they love it! And they totally seem to get making it so pretty that it’s scary. So we thought we’d try and nurture that spirit in a children’s choir library designed particularly for media composers — people who write for film, TV, and computer games. Why are these guys going to be wanting to use a children’s choir? Maybe there’s something set in a boarding school, maybe there’s something slightly choral and religious, but, more times than not, something unsettling is needed, and that’s where we’ve gone with this one. There are limits to how long children should be asked to perform. So, we thought we’d use the time thoughtfully, curating a selection of singing styles that capture this spirit. As opposed to giving you yet another library with ‘AAs’, ‘EEs’, ‘Ahs’, ‘Ohs’, and ‘MMs’, etcetera, AHOH, OHEH [and many more singing styles are available using the EXPRESSION wheel]. There’s some lovely WAVERING stuff where the pitch centres change. They sound great and scary when you cluster up, but on their own — or just a couple of notes — they have all sorts of childlike menace. There’s terrifying RISES and FALLS. And we’ve got a whole bunch of SHORT [singing styles].

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Yamaha FS1R Comes to Software with FSVR Emulator

via musica.studio

ALL 88 ALGORITHMS
Every FM algorithm from the hardware, with the voiced and unvoiced operators the FS1R is known for.

THE FACTORY BANKS BUILT IN
1408 voices [patches], 384 performances and 90 formant sequences read out of the ROM, so the patch browser needs no dump of your own.

FSEQ PLAYBACK
The formant sequences that made the FS1R sound like nothing else, with every loop mode, the start delay and MIDI clock sync.

THE FRONT PANEL IS THE GUI
Down to the cursor stops and the controller set, read out of the firmware's own screen tables rather than off a photo.

VST3, CLAP AND STANDALONE
Windows, macOS and Linux, built on every push, with no installer and no dependencies.

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Native Instruments FM8.plus Enhancement Project

via musica.studio

MORPH ROTATE
Map any MIDI CC to sweep a circle through all four morph timbres. Ride the whole morph square from a mod wheel.

ARP MIDI OUT
The built-in arpeggiator can finally drive other instruments. Probably FM8's most requested missing feature.

TEMPO OVERRIDE
Unshackle the arpeggiator from the DAW tempo and run it at its own.

GAIN +10 DB
Extra output gain, for patches that never quite got loud enough.

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The Usual Suspects Introduces the 88EmuPlayer Emulator

Demo video upload by Numero Uno

Also see Retromulator 1.6 What's New

"Low-level Sound Canvas series emulator, running the original firmware. Every sound you hear is from the emulator, no additional processing applied.

theusualsuspects.io/downloads/88emuplayer
Join our Discord: discord.gg/WJ9cxySnsM

00:00 Overblow – Night Slave (SC-88Pro)
00:25 Myth – SC-88 Demos (SC-88)
01:26 Departure For Space – Gradius (MIDI Power Pro 5) (SC-88Pro)
02:40 Stellar – HaruMKT (POWER! SC-55) (SC-55mk2)
04:14 Within End's Reach – MelonadeM (SC-8850)
05:56 Plok! Breezy Beach – HaruMKT (SC-8850)
07:19 DANCE II – Idecs Hyper Groove (SC-88Pro)

08:46 WALL FIVE MIX – SC-8850 Demos (SC-8850)
09:59 Embarrassment – Policenauts (MIDI Power Pro 3) (SC-88Pro)
11:07 Jazz & Fusion 2 – Idecs Hyper Groove (SC-8850)
12:04 Six and Seven – Theme Hospital (SC-88)
13:23 passport.mid – Windows 3.0 (SC-88)

Thanks to HaruMKT and MelonadeM for contributing with their compositions!
All the emulators are original work by TUS, except the SC-55 emulation core which is originally based on the work of NukeYKT."

"88Emu emulates the hardware inside most Sound Canvas modules and related earlier sound generators, used for retro gaming and DTM. It runs the original firmware on emulated CPUs and sound chips, including the firmware’s instrument selection, voice allocation, effects, MIDI handling and front-panel behavior. You supply the ROM images; they are not included.

88EmuPlayer is NOT a DAW-compatible plugin, but instead a standalone application for playing MIDI files and using those devices from a MIDI keyboard, sequencer or game. 88EmuCli uses the same emulation to render files to WAV offline using a command line interface, without having to wait for the song to play in real time."

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an e-theremin through guitar effects sounds wicked!

video upload by MIDI IN

"I'm really happy with this piece and I've tried a different way of presenting it. I kept a diary as it progressed and I've put together a montage of the development. Feel free to skip straight to the music if you don't need any of that.

The instruments I make:
https://peacockmedia.software/hardwar...

0:00 intro and concepts
0:52 adding more ideas
1:04 developing the handpan ostinato
1:27 bass
1:37 arranging
1:55 using e-ther through guitar effects
3:07 the music"

Monomodule 1.1.0 Beta Demo (Elektron Monomachine Emulator)

video upload by Ticco Ross

Additinal Monomodule posts

"Monomodule beta 1.1.0 notes:

Reworked library UI and structure

Added preset saving, sysex exports, just a ton of stuff i dont feel like writing down

Added Monomodule FX as a standalone FX bus plugin

NEXT RELEASE WILL BE OPEN SOURCE!!

Shnolk Monomodule — beta

A chip-level emulation of the Elektron Monomachine. This installer puts the plugins in the system plugin folders (Audio Unit and VST3) and the Library app in /Applications:

• Monomodule One — one Monomachine track: every synth and FX machine, the three LFOs (instrument)


• Monomodule Six — all six tracks in one instrument: MIDI channels 1-6, one stereo output per track, the hardware's routing (multitimbral instrument)


• Monomodule FX — the FX machines (THRU, REVERB, CHORUS, DYNAMIX, RINGMOD, PHASER, FLANGER) as an audio effect for any channel, with the same pages and LFOs (effect)


• Monomodule Library — a standalone app: import your Monomachine sysex dumps, browse their presets, kits and patterns, hear them with the play glyphs, and drag them into the plugins or the DAW

Requires Windows and macOS 12 or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel.

Thanks to @halftoneworld for making this Monomachine Emulator"

Phosphor NEW VST | How to Make PADs

video upload by kleemannbeats

https://synthskool.com/phosphor/

0:00 – Beautiful Pads With PHOSPHOR (CRT Screen → Plugin)
0:16 – Quick Tour: Oscilloscope, Macro Controls & Sample Engine
1:20 – Quick Tour: LFOs, Delay & Reverb Freeze
2:16 – How Presets & Samples Work Together
3:02 – Misc Page: Colors, 3D Mode & the Hidden Games
3:44 – Pad Sound Design: Looping a Pluck Into a Pad
4:33 – New Timbres: Loop Points & Sample Swapping
5:14 – Filter Sweeps & the Randomize Trick
6:02 – Panning & Reverb Freeze in Action
7:07 – Bonus: Pad → Pluck + Delay Freeze
8:24 – MIDI Mapping: Sustain Pedal, Pages & Hardware Synths
9:52 – The 3D Mode & Waitlist

Animal Factory x Philtersoup Asura || Polyphonic Wavetable Synthesizer with Analog Fuzz from India

video upload by Animal Factory Amplification

00:00 Intro
01:13 Control Layout
02:54 Analog Fuzz (Distortion) Controls
06:23 Shift Parameters
06:43 Shift Parameters: Detune, Melt FM & Glide
09:48 Shift Parameters: Delay Section
13:31 Shift Parameters: LFO Shape, Tempo Sync & Sustain
15:26 Assigning Modulation: LFOs
16:18 Assigning Modulation: Global vs Local Depth
18:15 Assigning Modulation: Envelopes
20:43 Arpeggiator
20:55 Arpeggiator: Modes
21:13 Arpeggiator: Latch & Half-Latch
22:27 Arpeggiator: Subdivisions
23:25 Randomizer
24:42 Sequencer
25:13 Sequencer: Parameter Lock
26:30 Sequencer: Randomizing with Pressure
27:52 Voice Modes: 3 Voice Polyphony (4 Oscillators per Voice)

"Your ears lust for the sacred and the profane; Asura, our first standalone synthesizer, satisfies the desire for both.

In Indian and other Asian mythologies, Asuras are depicted as celestial beings of immense power; sometimes benevolent, sometimes evil, and in opposition to the Gods.

Our synth distills these values into its sonic soma. It models itself after no known synth, and does not wish to. With a six-voice polyphonic wavetable architecture, an inbuilt delay and a signature Animal Factory analog fuzz circuit, it creates soundscapes that range from ethereal lushness to visceral devastation.

How serious is it? With a multitouch pressure sensitive keyboard, bidirectional USB MIDI, compact form factor, web editor and a comprehensive modulation matrix, this might just replace your current polysynth.

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Ocean Swift releases DevOcean Modular 1.2

DevOcean Modular - What's new in 1.2 - Modules. instruments, content #modularsynth #sounddesign

video upload by Ocean Swift / Faxi Nadu

More info: https://oceanswift.net/product/devocean/

DevOcean Modular | MIDI Effects Chord Generator and Arpeggiator Chain #modularsynth #sounddesign

video upload by Ocean Swift / Faxi Nadu

Press release follows:

"Ocean Swift has released version 1.2 of DevOcean Modular, its modular synthesis and sound design platform. The update adds thirty-five modules, headed by a complete MIDI effects section - Chord Generator, Scale Enforcer, Strummer, Random Notes, MIDI Delay, Velocity Processor and Humanizer - which operate on note data rather than audio.

A second group unbundles functionality that previously lived inside larger multimode modules. Compressor and Limiter, Bracket EQ, RBJ Multimode Filter, the AD, AHD and ADSR envelopes and the Display family are now also available as single-purpose modules, carrying fewer controls to wire and to expose.

The Capsule Manager, which lets a builder give any patch a custom front panel and compile it into a shareable .osmodule file, gains sprite and font skinning, hyperlink labels, styled input and output labels, and exposable XY and sample views that can act as drop targets. The release also includes performance work across undo, the browser and canvas polling, plus new tutorials and factory content.

DevOcean Modular 1.2 is available now for 35% off at €129.99

The demo is the full instrument - every module and preset, no time limit, saving disabled."

https://oceanswift.net/product/devocean/

Control Your Vintage Synths with INARA | Knobcon 2026

video upload by CatSynth TV

"We get a tour of the new INARA controller series from Five Lined Engineering at Knobcon 2026. These special-purpose controllers are designed to expose the deep parameter sets of vintage synthesizers as physical controls and MIDI CCs for use in live performance and with DAWS. There are three current models, supporting the Korg DW-8000, Yamaha DX7 family, and Roland Alpha Juno, respectively.

For more info, please visit https://www.fivelined.com/"

Patreon: / catsynth | https://shop.catsynth.com | https://ko-fi.com/catsynth

8 new preset sounds for MIDISID

video upload by MIDI IN

"When I designed the control surface, I intended to use it to find a bunch of sounds and provide more presets for the mono and duo modes. And here we are.

In this video I demo Synth Strings 1 and 2, Percussive Organ, Sweep Pad, Tuba, Bowed Glass, Seashore and Breath"

Korg 03R/W - SynthCorner Presets (Sounds Only)

video upload by wolfgang S vukan

"Korg 03R/W - SynthCorner Presets (Sounds Only)

If you like these sounds, you can buy the complete 03R/W SysEx bank from me with all 80 presets for 10 Euros (contact me at: vukansto at gmail dot com).

So, this is an old KORG ROMpler from 1991, a cut-down version of the flagship 01R/W. The 03R/W has less sample ROM (5 MB vs. 6 MB on the 01R/W) and lacks the Waveshaping and Emphasis features. Korg named this digital synthesis engine AI2, which stands for Advanced Integrated Synthesis (second generation). The first AI generation was featured in the M1 and T series.

Actually, I planned to sell this 03R/W, but now I'm not so sure. It reminds me of some mystic, dark sounds I created on the T2ex that I sold a decade ago. Now, I have those similar sounds in a compact 1U rack unit.

Recorded directly form 03r/W audio output to Tascam DR05x recorder (24bit / 48 khz)

Korg 03R/W specifications:
32 polyphonic (16 poly in dual Osc mode presets)
8 parts multitimbral (16 parts in General MIDI mode)
255 multi samples (5mb ROM of 16bit samples)
Single or dual oscilator structure per program/preset
Digital low-pass filter (VDF) per oscillator
2x digital effects processor (reverb, delay, chorus, distortion, etc.)
229 programs-presets (100 RAM + 129 ROM GM) and 100 multi combinations
PCM and RAM data cards expansions
4 analog audio outputs"

DemonBox Eternal Research - Knobcon 2026

video upload by sonicstate

"We spoke to Jordan from Eternal Research about DemonBox, a triangular electromagnetic instrument and controller. He explained how it reacts to electromagnetic fields from motors, magnets, speakers, phones and other implements, turning those interactions into audio, CV and MIDI.

DemonBox has 33 inductors on its surface, arranged as three channels of 11 in concentric spirals. It has no internal oscillators or tone generators; the audio output comes from disturbances in the electromagnetic field, closer to a wide-field pickup than a synth voice. MIDI notes control instruments such as HydraSynth, while MIDI data can also drive TouchDesigner visuals and DMX lighting via conversion.

The unit includes three external audio inputs, one for each inductor channel. Incoming audio can be mixed with the knobs, and it also affects outgoing MIDI and CV. MIDI runs over USB-C, the unit is powered by 5V USB power, and CV is available for modular hardware. DemonBox is priced at $999, with an in-person Knobcon 26 offer including a free Ferris wheel order.
More Info: https://eternalresearch.com"

Long Division Stereo Kanawha Music and Art - Knobcon 2026

video upload by sonicstate

"Chris Nagorka from Kanawha Music and Art gave us a look at Long Division Stereo and a Eurorack system, including a new phaser, Filternator filters and a matching LFO.

The current Long Division version is stereo and uses divide-down tone generation in the style of older electric pianos and organs. It offers square-wave and narrow-pulse outputs, with analog tone production and wavefolding; only the MIDI board is digital. Each note has its own keying circuit, and notes alternate between left and right every six notes, with panning available per note.

The phasers are exact copies of the 1970s Crumar Roadrunner chorus circuit. The Filternator is a passive Eurorack filter with no power requirement, switch-selected high-pass and low-pass settings, and a CV-controllable mix. The LFO cycles down to one cycle per minute and can drive phasers and filters on alternate cycles.

Products are available direct. The filter is $100 in the US, the phaser and LFO are $225 each, and Long Division Stereo is $1,750.

More Info: ‪@KanawhaMusic‬
https://kanawhamusic.com"