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Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Introducing Massive XL | Native Instruments
video upload by Native Instruments
Massive XL - What's new? | Native Instruments
video upload by Native Instruments
"Get an overview of Massive XL and explore new ways to create, shape, and perform with sound."
"Step into a synth that hits hard fast, then keeps opening up.
Massive XL builds on its iconic heritage to guide you to your own distinctive sound with grit, weight, and character.
Break out of fixed signal chains. Route oscillators, noise, filters, inserts, phase modulation, and feedback into unexpected combinations and effects. Explore hundreds of wavetables, reshape them with ten oscillator modes, and build evolving sounds with expressive modulation, open routing, and powerful effects.
Massive XL intro pricing:
Update for Massive X customers: $49
Crossgrade from Massive: $79
New customers: $99"
Press release follows:
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS UNVEILS MASSIVE XL, A NEW FLAGSHIP SYNTH DESIGNED TO HELP PRODUCERS REACH ORIGINAL SOUNDS FASTER
Building on Massive’s Iconic Sound, Massive XL Combines Deep Sound Design, Faster Workflow, A New Preset Generator, And Powerful Tools in A Reimagined Synthesizer.
BERLIN, Germany (October 27, 2026) – Native Instruments today announced Massive XL, the latest generation of its flagship synthesizer platform and successor to Massive X. Designed for producers who demand both sonic depth and creative speed, Massive XL combines the character, flexibility, and modulation power that made Massive an industry standard with a redesigned workflow that helps users move from inspiration to original sounds faster.
New tools including Preset Generator, Mutator, Morpher, and Animator make it easier to discover, shape, and personalize sounds while preserving the deep synthesis engine and open routing architecture that Massive users have relied on for years.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026
AtomoSynth Reveals Mochika X7 Analog Synth
AtomoSynth Mochika X7 | Reveal | Analog Synth Sequence & Textures (No Talking)
video upload by Atomosynth
"Hello world! A simple sequence, a lot of different textures. No talking, just the new MochikaX7. Every sound you hear comes from the synth itself: the analog square/saw oscillator, DCO, the noise oscillator, and the vactrol filter.
Available as a *Eurorack module* with an extensive patch bay, and as a *standalone desktop synth* with a 3D-printed case.
Classic analog square and saw oscillator, plus noise oscillator
Digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) with square, saw, triangle, and sine waveforms
Voltage-controlled low-pass and high-pass vactrol filter
Extensive modulation and a new modulatable onboard delay
32-step sequencer with 9 playing modes and 100-pattern memory
Sync via external clock, MIDI clock, and USB MIDI clock
18-point patch bay (9 inputs, 9 outputs)
Desktop: 255 × 145 × 83 mm, 19 V power supply included
Eurorack: 48 HP, 25 mm deep, 123 mA (+12 V), 80 mA (−12 V), 30 mA (+5 V)
🇵🇪 Designed, hand-assembled, calibrated, and tested with care in Lima, Peru by the AtomoSynth team.
🔗 *More info / availability:*
https://atomosynth.co/"
"We are proud to bring back to the world the all-time classic AtomoSynth Mochika. This new version, “X7,” represents a rebirth of the classic Mochika sound, along with extensive modulation capabilities and a new modulatable onboard delay effect.
video upload by Atomosynth
"Hello world! A simple sequence, a lot of different textures. No talking, just the new MochikaX7. Every sound you hear comes from the synth itself: the analog square/saw oscillator, DCO, the noise oscillator, and the vactrol filter.
Available as a *Eurorack module* with an extensive patch bay, and as a *standalone desktop synth* with a 3D-printed case.
Classic analog square and saw oscillator, plus noise oscillator
Digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) with square, saw, triangle, and sine waveforms
Voltage-controlled low-pass and high-pass vactrol filter
Extensive modulation and a new modulatable onboard delay
32-step sequencer with 9 playing modes and 100-pattern memory
Sync via external clock, MIDI clock, and USB MIDI clock
18-point patch bay (9 inputs, 9 outputs)
Desktop: 255 × 145 × 83 mm, 19 V power supply included
Eurorack: 48 HP, 25 mm deep, 123 mA (+12 V), 80 mA (−12 V), 30 mA (+5 V)
🇵🇪 Designed, hand-assembled, calibrated, and tested with care in Lima, Peru by the AtomoSynth team.
🔗 *More info / availability:*
https://atomosynth.co/"
"We are proud to bring back to the world the all-time classic AtomoSynth Mochika. This new version, “X7,” represents a rebirth of the classic Mochika sound, along with extensive modulation capabilities and a new modulatable onboard delay effect.
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Monday, October 19, 2026
Baikonur 4: a virtual instrument sampled from a SOMA Lyra-8
video upload by Fangtooth Instruments
"Baikonur 4 is a cinematic virtual instrument built from deep-sampled recordings of the Soma Lyra-8 — an analog synthesizer known for its unpredictable, organic character. Available now as VST3/AU.
🔗 Get it here: https://fangtoothinstruments.com
Baikonur 4 features multiple mic positions, a built-in arpeggiator, and a full effects chain — covering everything from dark atmospheric drones to percussive textures and alien tonalities. Designed for film, game, and horror scoring"
Baikonur 4 is a sample-based synthesizer built from the sound of the SOMA Lyra-8™, a celebrated analog drone instrument. Rather than model it, Baikonur 4 captures its character through multi-channel recording and lets you reshape it with modulation, filtering and effects.
What makes the instrument distinctive is how each sound was recorded: every source was captured through four separate “mic” channels, each with its own tone, which you blend to taste on the main page.
Main — The direct signal, run through analog EQ, analog saturation and transformers for weight and color.
Room — The signal sent through a Fender Princeton Reverb amplifier and then a Universal Audio OX amp top box with the “Room” control fully raised — the source of the channel’s name.
Cab L / Cab R — Two different speaker-cabinet impulse responses, each captured in a different room and without the amplifier used on the Room channel — adding width and a sense of space.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Novation Circuit Tracks Firmware Hack
It finally happened! Circuit Tracks Hacked! video upload by Guinan
"Thread is here,
/ circuithacks_is_out_now_unofficial_custom
Official Github,
https://github.com/Ghillermo/CIRCUITS..."
via Redit:
"NEW UPDATE: Beta1 is finishing internal testing and will be released soon. You can update with the upload tool. Thanks everybody for their input. I tried to include most of your requests (and some of my own) when it was possible, some of them I did my own take, trying to satisfy similar goals into a single approach. Now we have a couple new effects, you can save synth engine's patches, customize your macro Knobs from the device, pattern link, scene repeat, copy and re-arrange stuff inside or between packs... Check GitHub for a full list. All stock functions remain the same. Message me, submit a request on the GitHub or reply to this thread for fixes, new features or clarifications. A demo will maybe come, after a rest. If anyone wants to share theirs, be my guest."
Features for the archives, via Github:
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Currents & Nostalgia - Using Velocity to Slot position for variation in two patches - Coming synth
video upload by Unusable Engineering
"In this video I am not showing off patches, but showing 2 different ways to utilize the slot system and velocity to generate different degrees of variation to patches. The patches are of course included as presets with the synth when it is available.
By using the velocity to position function - the velocity can move to entirely different oscillator settings or filter settings - or both at once. It can be combined with sweeping slot movement too for evolving patches.
The first patch in the video uses the oscillator slot system to increase detuning and feedback with higher velocity and some random movement from there. The filter is set up in a rather flat way across three slots letting mid velocities add extra drive and distortion to the sound.
The second patch is having 5 independent drum sounds set up by using no interpolation, thus giving 5 discrete velocity zones - one for each slot. The system is set up the same way for both oscillator and filter making it straight-forward to adjust the patch.
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Saturday, October 03, 2026
PLICATA — Patchable AUv3 Synth for iOS | Hands-On Demo
video upload by Utente Google Anonimo
"A hands-on demo of PLICATA, my first instrument in the Trambustissimo family.
PLICATA is a compact patchable monophonic synth for iOS, available as a standalone instrument and AUv3. It combines a morphing VCO, independent interval SUB oscillator, wavefolder, resonant filter, modulation, a 28-point patch system, microtonal XY keyboard, MIDI/MPE, complete-state presets, and a 32-step performance arpeggiator with probability, ratchets, HOLD/FILL, mutation, freeze and recallable scenes.
Trambustissimo instruments: https://alessandroguardascione.com/products/
Support:
support@alessandroguardascione.com
PLICATA is the first of six independently developed Trambustissimo instruments inspired by classic Moog instruments and workflows. The wider project also includes TACTA, a six-voice percussion instrument inspired by the Nord Drum 2's six-channel architecture and expanded around deeper synthesis, sequencing and performance.
These are independent instruments developed by Alessandro Guardascione. References to Moog and Nord products are descriptive only; there is no affiliation, endorsement, sponsorship or licensing relationship with those companies."
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Friday, September 25, 2026
These Plugins Sound AMAZING… Except One
video upload by Keith Crosley
"Space Age Strings, Traveler 1.1, Arturia MiniFreak V, and Liminal Space 2 RC6: three plugins I'm excited about, and one that's... fine. Your old pal Keith demos vintage strings, custom wavetable import, Bloom and reverse reverb, and gloriously backward shoegaze. Grab your mod wheel for another episode of your favorite talky synthesizer content show!
First up: Authentic Soundware's Space Age Strings, with gorgeous legatos, vintage ribbon-mic character, and serious Mancini energy. We pair those nine violins with Liminal Space 2's new Space Age Scoring Stage preset and compare the library's built-in reverb with some algorithmic spaciousness.
Then we revisit Traveler! Version 1.1 fixes the big wavetable-workflow frustrations from my previous review: now I can point it at my existing KRC Mathwaves folders without duplicating gigabytes of content. Cue polygonal bells, Morlet wavelet vowels, and a much happier Keith. We also try MiniFreak V's new user-wavetable import. It's great to have it, but I've got opinions about the workflow, the effects, and whether the software version floats my boat.
Finally, we explore my Liminal Space 2 RC6 reverb for macOS and Windows: MIDIverb II-inspired Bloom sounds, reverse-style swells, ACTUAL reversed audio, and instant imaginary Cocteau Twins guitar with Native Instruments' Electric Sunburst Deluxe. We build Bloom effects on piano, shape them with curves and wavetables, and explore Reverse Capture's Diffuse and Clear modes. Then we get dark and wobbly with Clockwarp and the new Vulture 224 filter, inspired by Alex at Vulture Culture. Woot!
Disclosure: Authentic Soundware kindly supplied Space Age Strings; this is not paid placement. I purchased Traveler myself. Liminal Space 2 and KRC Mathwaves are my own products. Liminal Space 2 is demonstrated in RC6; the RC7 Follow feature is teased for a future video."
You can find wavetables and additional resources by Keith Crosley available at https://www.wavetables.lol.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2026
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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20 Minutes of Dub Techno - Novation Circuit Tracks Sound Pack by A Force Truly Evil
video upload by A Force Truly Evil
"Available Here: https://sci-fiaudio.com/product/dub-t...
DEEP, DIVE, HYPNOTIC
DUB CHORDS, HYPNOTIC RHYTHMS & IMMERSIVE ATMOSPHERES
Dub Techno transforms your Novation Circuit Tracks into a modern Dub Techno instrument where hypnotic grooves, evolving atmospheres and endless echoes meet the precision of Techno.
Inspired by the meeting point between Dub and Techno, the pack explores both worlds without compromise. Featuring 120 patches — including 56 Dub Chords, 16 Deep Basses, 24 Poly Synths, 16 Pads, 6 Performance Effects — plus 18 demo projects, the collection blends dub chords, evolving delays, cavernous reverbs and atmospheric textures with solid drums, sub basslines and hypnotic sequences, creating everything from introspective listening experiences to late-night club tracks.
Dub Techno captures the essence of the genre: repetition, subtle evolution and space. Every patch has been designed to breathe, evolve and interact with delay and reverb, allowing simple patterns to grow into rich, immersive soundscapes full of movement and emotion.
00:00 DEMO 01 01:04 DEMO 02 02:58 DEMO 03 04:21 DEMO 04 06:00 DEMO 05 07:08 DEMO 06 08:43 DEMO 07 10:08 DEMO 08 12:06 DEMO 09 12:54 DEMO 10 14:25 DEMO 11 15:32 DEMO 12 16:20 DEMO 13 17:16 DEMO 14 17:50 DEMO 15 18:40 DEMO 16"
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Retromulator for iOS

"Retromulator is a multi-core retro hardware emulation app and AUv3 plug-in that brings legendary synthesizer, sampler, and keyboard cores back to life through authentic low-level emulation. Each core runs its actual firmware, physical model, or sample data — delivering the unmistakable character of the hardware that defined electronic music from the early 80s through the 2000s.
— EMULATED CORES —
VIRTUAL ANALOG SYNTHS
Motorola DSP 56300 recreation (interpreter mode), built on the open-source Gearmulator by the dsp56300 team:
• Access Virus A, B and C
• Access Virus TI / TI2 / Snow
• Clavia Nord Lead 2X
• Waldorf microQ
• Waldorf Microwave XT
FM SYNTHESIS
• Yamaha DX7 — original chip set emulation, based on VDX7 by Charles Chiaccona
• Yamaha OPL3 — Nuked OPL3 cycle-accurate FM by Nuke.YKT
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Sunday, September 06, 2026
Crossfaded: Complex Modulation
video upload by Mehr Music Machines
"Let’s crossfade between two cycling function generators (RAMPS) and use that x-fade signal output to modulate the filter cutoff on Deuxd. And then let’s take one of Crossfaded’s internal (but accessible) LFOs and pan that signal between the two function generators’ shape modulation CV inputs. Let’s do that together."
Crossfaded is 14HP VCA-core utility for Eurorack Modular Synthesizers
Features: Dual 2-channel crossfader/panner VCA
CV control over pan/fade
Built in LFO with two shapes: Swirl (triangle) & Bounce (square)
Dedicated LFO output
Each of the two crossfader sections has 2-input and 2-output. When using both signal inputs the output signal will present the opposing input signal. For example: Signal input 1A fades between outputs B to A. While simultaneously the opposite is true; Signal input 1B fades between outputs A to B.
When only one input is used the outputs can be patched to a mixer's left + right channels for a classic "Auto-Pan" effect. Adjust the LFO's rate and depth to taste.
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Saturday, September 05, 2026
The M8 Tracker Continues To Blow His Mind // OS 6.6 Release
video upload by EZBOT
"Today I wanted to take a bit of time to explain my deep love for the Dirtywave M8 Tracker while going over the patch notes for the new OS that was released last week. The new OS brings a slew of upgrades to the device in both sound and presentation. Let's check it out and make some tunes."
EZBOT resources: https://www.patreon.com/ezbot, https://ko-fi.com/ezbot/, https://www.modbang.com
M8 Changelog on github
Makes for an intersting look back on the development history of the M8:
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Thursday, August 20, 2026
Circuit Bent Alesis HR-16 | patch and pitch mods make this an amazing drum machine
video upload by POTAR
"Circuit Bent Alesis HR-16 drum machine by POTAR - Mods include a 28 point patch bay, switchable pitch control via knob or photocell for ultra-dives, and new battery and screen installed, too.
-
https://potardesign.com"
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Friday, August 14, 2026
Matrix Vol 2 - Oberheim TEO-5 - Patches by GEOSynths Now Available
"Out Now - https://www.geosynths.com/teo-5
Matrix Vol 2 contains 128 Patches covering Pads & Strings, Bass & Leads, Poly & Arps and whole lot more.
This Video demonstrates Patches 65 to 96. There will be 2 more Videos and when the 4th is uploaded, they will be available for purchase."
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Audio Damage Introduces AD-202 Synthesizer Inspired by the Roland MC-202
via Audio Damage
"AD-202 is a single-oscillator monosynth in the small-silver-box tradition of the early 1980s. One VCO with saw, pulse, sub, and noise running into a 24 dB ladder filter, one envelope, one LFO, and very little else. Every control is on the front panel, there are no hidden pages of options, and there is exactly one path from a knob to a sound.
Under the vintage panel it is a thoroughly modern instrument. Mono or eight-voice poly, per-voice analog drift, a tempo-syncable LFO with a delayed onset, MPE, MTS-ESP microtuning, and a post-VCA colour section with pre-filter saturation, filter drive, distortion, and a tilt EQ. The vintage part is the ergonomics. The rest of it is not vintage at all.
Same as the rest of our catalog: Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS. No DRM, no subscriptions, no dongles, perpetual license.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Introducing the Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms SV-2
video upload by Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers
Pics and details via Perfect Circuit.
[You can find additional demos by Starsky Carr, BoBeats, and Molten Music Technology further below.]
Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms SV-2
Lifeforms SV-2 from Pittsburgh Modular is a duophonic analog semi-modular keyboard synthesizer that honors classic East Coast subtractive architecture while packing a punch of flavorful twists afforded by modern technology. A full-blown revamp of the SV-1, it features updates to nearly every aspect of the instrument: new oscillator core, classic PGH filters updated with new character modes and overdrive stages, new spring reverb, new response curves and range modes on the ADSR envelopes, a custom 37-key keyboard with pitch-bend and mod wheels, and a redesigned interface with eighty-four patch points along the top. Moreover, a 24hp Eurorack expansion bay with three power headers sits alongside them, so external modules of your choosing can be dropped into the signal path at any point.
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Friday, July 31, 2026
Casio SK-8 Sampling Keyboard + Patch Bay + Pitch Mod
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via this Reverb listing
"Rare 1987 Casio SK-8 8-bit sampling keyboard modified with a unique raised console featuring a 20 point ROM modulation patch bay, four illuminated preset effects switches and an illuminated pitch control. This is an otherworldly instrument which will inspire any alternative electronic musician and sound designer. Reed Ghazala named his modified SK units 'Aleatrons' due to their random, unexpected nature so nothing is obvious here- when the patch matrix is in use, the keyboard itself doesn't always function as you'd expect while the modifications open up a world of experimental audio possibilities, far outreaching Casio's original intentions. The pitch controller is switchable and can drop sampled sounds to crashing, aliasing lows.
via this Reverb listing
"Rare 1987 Casio SK-8 8-bit sampling keyboard modified with a unique raised console featuring a 20 point ROM modulation patch bay, four illuminated preset effects switches and an illuminated pitch control. This is an otherworldly instrument which will inspire any alternative electronic musician and sound designer. Reed Ghazala named his modified SK units 'Aleatrons' due to their random, unexpected nature so nothing is obvious here- when the patch matrix is in use, the keyboard itself doesn't always function as you'd expect while the modifications open up a world of experimental audio possibilities, far outreaching Casio's original intentions. The pitch controller is switchable and can drop sampled sounds to crashing, aliasing lows.
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Thursday, July 23, 2026
Dutch STEIM Zwarte Dozen Systeem - Sound Demo with Novanex Delay.
video upload by Acid Solder Club
"Short jam of patching with the rare Dutch modular synth system that started out around 1974 within the STEIM Studio for Electro-Instrumental music.
Since 2022 Veerle (Elektortek) got her hands one this system, in total consisting out of 4 rows of "cassettes"/modules (34 total modules, 4x patch matrices). It needs quite some servicing and repair, but als a lot of cassettes survived the forces of time.
Since last year the system is based at Acid Solder Club Utrecht, Veerle's creative electronics/ DIY and synth workshop and experimental sound studio based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Together with a small team (herself, Rob vd Poel and Sybren Danz) we are searching for documentation, video materials, schematics and all kinds of doodled and sketched info, that most unfortunately, is lost in time.
We are currently also working on a digital archive with stories, patch ideas, a new service manual and repair blog.The process is slow, since a lot of information is lost and we are looking at similar circuits at the time, and digital and book references to help the build.
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No post processing anything, and also no filter (yet, in service) or envelopes so it was quite challenging and not really all volume levelled out and such but meh, that's not the point of this video :)
Casettes used in this patch:
V.C Quadrature Oscillator
3x VCO/LFO
ProductModulator
Dual amplifier divider
Inverter
Dual VCA
2x Matrix patchpanels
NOVANEX Sound Shifter SS12000.
that was in the workspace for servicing for the Re:vive Studio, based inside the Instituut of Image and Sound in Hilversum.
https://revivethis.org
https://www.beeldengeluid.nl"
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Thursday, July 16, 2026
A. G. Cook presents SuperStarSaw | Native Instruments
video upload by Native Instruments
"Presented by A. G. Cook, SuperStarSaw pushes stacked saw synthesis to its extremes. Create huge supersaws, impossible glides, blissed-out harmonies, and controlled chaos from a single playable instrument – without the need for endless layering and automation."
Playlist:
1. A. G. Cook presents SuperStarSaw | Native Instruments
2. Discover SuperStarSaw with A. G. Cook | Native Instruments
3. SuperStarSaw synth walkthrough | Native Instruments

Native Instruments and A. G. Cook turn his signature supersaw into a custom instrument you can play
The PC Music founder and 2025 BRIT Producer of the Year brings the stacked saw sound known for Charli xcx, and Caroline Polachek to a single synthesizer — built from his own patches
Berlin, July 16, 2026: Native Instruments has today launched SuperStarSaw, a synthesizer co-created with GRAMMY-winning A. G. Cook, British producer, PC Music founder, and one of the key architects of contemporary pop's defining sonic palette.
Supersaws, multiple sawtooth waves layered and slightly detuned against each other, are responsible for some of modern pop's most immediately recognisable textures: the wide, lush, harmonically dense quality running through Cook's work with Charli xcx, Beyoncé, Caroline Polachek, and Oklou. Building them has always meant painstaking multi-instance layering, a process Cook had refined over years of his own production work, and which became the starting point for what followed. The instrument grew out of a two-year collaboration with Native Instruments' design team, who worked directly from Cook's patches and production sessions to turn one of modern pop's most coveted sounds into something you can actually play.
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Sunday, July 12, 2026
VIVALDI - Autumn Part 1 on SIX (5) ARP Odysseys
video upload by Richard Payne
"Been having a pop at Autumn Part 1 these last few days and this take I recorded (take 111!) has come out slightly 'dystopian' sounding and synthy. Have pushed the filters a bit more. There’s a bit of overdrive in places and some wobbly 'pitchy' stuff happening. But lots going on and lots of things to remember to do. Or not to do. This take here was only the 4th time I’d made it to the end, and the first and only without completely ballsing it up.
Odyssey #3 was briefly back in the fold last week and was ably handling the sub bass part all on it’s own, but it started going wrong again and has been taken back to the repair shop. So to cover that part here, I’m bringing in and out oscillator 2 on Odyssey #6, which is set to a square wave an octave down. I’d say a good 80 of those earlier takes that I mucked up were ruined by me forgetting to do this, or doing it badly, or at completely the wrong time. There’s a 'high jeopardy' patch change happening on Odyssey #1 too which I liked to get wrong, transitioning from a short filtery harmony part at the beginning to a long square wave lead line for the slow bit towards the end.
As before, I got the Midi parts online and processed them in Ableton Live. I combined and reduced them down from the 24 orchestral parts to the 5 here. Fixed up a few dodgy notes. Probably added a few of my own. Then I tempo matched to an orchestral performance of the piece, which is probably the fiddliest and most time consuming bit. There were a few more evenings messing with note lengths and refining the tempos further. So, I’ve been using Korg’s Odyssey plugins up to this point in the process, slouching on the sofa on my laptop, but the next step is to move into my little music room and to practice on the actual ones. Spent a couple more evenings working things out there and then a couple of days trying to film a good run through.
It’s certainly tricky trying to adjust each part as dynamically as I’d like when they’re all coming at me in one big terrifying lump. I’m not mixing or even EQ’ing afterwards so I’m battling to keep a good audible balance between the synths as I go. If I get too involved or too “two-handy” on a synth for too long, I’m neglecting the other four and I’ve missed 5 other things I wanted to do. So I’m relying quite a lot on the Decay slider in the envelope section, as it seems to offer a one-stop dynamic shop that I can adjust on two synths at the same time. I’ve modded all of the Odysseys to have a free-running LFOs also, so I can introduce a slow LFO to the filters to keep them shifting about on their own whilst I adjust something else elsewhere.
I have started re-recording these pieces 'properly', one Odyssey at a time, with view to putting them up somewhere for streaming or perhaps even pressing them onto vinyl. Would sound good on record I reckon. You reckon? And I have a whole shelf full of peculiar synthesizer albums from the 60’s and 70’s that it would be an honour to mingle with.
But hey, thank you so much, everyone who showed up and watched the last video. For all the views and subscriptions and above all, the kind and encouraging comments. That was nuts. I didn’t know you lot were coming! Absoutely amazing and thank you sincerely again.
Oh, to wrap up, here the Odysseys are going balanced out into a Behringer ADA-8200 Interface, which is optically connected into the Adat In of my UAD Apollo. They get their 5 channels of Midi note on, note off information down USB from Ableton Live which is in turn recording the audio coming back. I added some Hall Reverb from Arturia’s LX-24 but nothing has been EQ’d. It’s all how it comes out of the lovely boxes. I did however have a Limiter on the main channel, to put a bit of a lid on some of the more feisty bits.
Toodles!"
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