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Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Anukari 1.1: Strings, Tubes, Wind, and 1,000+ New Presets


video upload by Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer

The Making of the Modulosphere: Behind the Springs

video upload by Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer

Press release follows:

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.

Sunday, November 08, 2026

Floating 🌊 (Arturia Minifreak // Elektron Digitone // MFB Tanzbar // Roland S1 // K.O.-Sidekick)


video upload by 2-Minute Warning

"Four instruments, three parts played in real time, and one slightly overloaded pair of hands. 😅

The challenge for this one was simple on paper: play the PADS, BASS and LEAD in real time. No sequencers being abused here! Well… except for the MFB TanzbĂ€r, which handles the drums. đŸ„

On the MiniFreak , I use two different pad sounds: one for the first part, then a more choir-like sound for the second half.

The S-1 handles the bass, and its HOLD function was particularly useful here. It lets me keep a bass note playing while freeing one hand to do something else (change sounds, play the lead, trigger a drum break… basically trying to keep everything under control. 😅)

The Digitone is where I play the melodies, using chime sounds layered with a pad-like sound. For the outro, I switch on the arpeggiator.

And then there's the TanzbÀr , which made things a little more complicated because I wanted to play with the K.O.-Sidekick effects during the performance.

I used the TanzbÀr's separate outputs so that:
The main drum parts go through Sidekick Channel 1, with its compressor, EQ and Loop effect for the breaks
The hi-hats and cymbals go through Channel 2, using the compressor, EQ and Delay.

So while playing three instruments in real time, I also had to keep an eye on the drums, the Sidekick effects, sound changes and everything else happening at the same time.

Let's just say… there are a few beautiful mistakes in there. 😂

But that's the whole point of these jams: no perfect performance, just one take, a lot of things to control, and a human being trying to keep up with his own setup.

Hope you enjoy it!

As always, the performance was recorded in a single take. I mixed and mastered the individual tracks afterwards in Ableton Live, but the musical performance itself wasn't edited or fixed."

Thursday, November 05, 2026

Electroacoustic texture synthesis with the Stereo Field and Piezos


video upload by Landscape

"✅Electroacoustic Piezo feedback modification✅ A user of our instrument the Stereo Field recommended I glue knobs onto the Piezos I was using for this method to give a bit more weight to them and quick spinning ability. A really nice idea. I’ll try my best to explain what is happening here again. Piezos are placed face down (a small solder dot on the (-) metal disc to complete the surface connection to the exposed dual stereo preamp circuits. The Piezos are acting as three different elements in this scenario. 1. An element in an “oscillator” 2. An acoustic pickup. 3. A tiny speaker element. These three things change based on where they are touching in the circuits and how the gains are set. In person you can hear them physically feeding back and vibrating against the surface of the Stereo Field. So then you have mechanical feedback simultaneously to circuit feedback. (Internal AND external). Added to that you can get speaker feedback involved and there you have THREE different types of feedback happening. Next I’ll send some instruments through it and maybe try this with modular for a chaotic electro-acoustics CV source. https://www.landscape.fm/stereofield"

matrix note: you can find pics of one posted here today.

Monday, November 02, 2026

Love Synthesizers First Love


video uploads by Angelstar Scotland

New videos of Love Synthesizers First Love. Be sure to see Red Means Recording walkthrough below.
See Love Synthesizers label for addtional posts.

Monday, October 26, 2026

Oral Histories - Warren Burt


video upload by Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS)

"Warren Burt arrived in Australia in 1975 and the landscape of Australian electronic and experimental music changed forever. An encyclopaedic repository of works and theories in the field - Warren has been educating and inspiring generations for half a century. His work spans almost all conceivable genres and modalities ranging from his Aardvarks series of pieces (that are also devised instruments) to works exploring incompetence as a paradigm and even compositions designed to propagate in gasses other than oxygen! Since his arrival he has been an almost constant agitator and organiser, creating new performance contexts and ways to educate people both within and outside of the institutions that have been lucky enough to have him on staff.

About Oral Histories:

Storytelling is an essential part of what it means to be human. When we share our stories we create space for real exchange and a deeper sense of empathy toward one another. At MESS we are conscious that so much of what has happened in Australian electronic music was never written down. Even when things are documented formally in books and journals - that very process can create an orthodox history which is inevitably incomplete and riddled with unconscious bias. So what we are doing is sitting down with the people who have made a lasting contribution to the form and asking them to tell us about their experiences in their own words.

The Oral Histories project was funded initially by a local histories grant from the Public Record Office of Victoria.

Filmed and produced by Jonnine Nokes

Find out more at http://mess.foundation"

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Introducing GeoShaku, part of GeoSWAM Collection 3/4.


video upload by Jordan Rudess

"The Shakuhachi has a sound all its own. Traditionally crafted from bamboo, this end-blown flute is known for its breathy, meditative tones, subtle nuances, and incredible ability to express emotion. From soft, airy whispers to deep, resonant notes, it can sound almost as if the instrument itself is breathing.

One of the things I love most about GeoShred is how incredibly expressive, ultra-realistic, and just plain fun these instruments are to play. And now there are even more sounds to explore!

You can try any instrument before buying, and we’re also offering an introductory 33% discount on GeoSWAM 3/4 collections.

So here’s a little Shakuhachi performance for you. Who knew a virtual bamboo flute could take you on such a musical journey? đŸ˜ŽđŸŽ¶

www.geoshred.com

‪@GeoShred‬ #geoshred #iosmusician #iosmusic #GeoSWAM #audiomodeling #moforte #wizdommusic #midi #GeoShaku #Shakuhachi"

Additional GeoSWAM posts.

The Crow Hill Company Introduces FOREST HARPS Incantatory Invention


video upload by CROW HILL

"In this video Christian walks us through his latest incatative invention made in collaboration with the entire Crow Hill team. Forest Harps is made up of a rare find coupled with medieval ingredients and his own very special and grotesque approach to sound design. If you're looking for a harp that isn't a harp, a classical guitar that isn't a classical guitar and some fully controllable shifts in darkness of tone for your next score, song or soundtrack it would be worth checking out"

Press release follows:


The Crow Hill Company continues investigating its Origins series of virtual instrument plug-in collectibles with FOREST HARPS incantatory invention

EDINBURGH, UK: The Crow Hill Company is delighted to continue investigating its Origins series of virtual instrument plug-in collectables with the release of its intriguing-sounding FOREST HARPS — being billed as an incantatory invention collectively crafted by the Edinburgh-based enterprise, effectively comprising a harp made from elk horn, conch shell, animal ribs, and fishing wire brought together with medieval psaltries fed through a slowly rotating Leslie cabinet to create a forest floor of plucks, textures, and atmospheres as a rare and grotesque approach to sound design — as of October 20…

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Cast Away (Elektron Digitone // MFB Tanzbar // Roland S-1 // Teenage Engineering KO Sidekick EP 136)


video upload by 2-Minute Warning

"1 track, 3 machines, a little over 5 minutes. 🎛️

Back with the same setup as *Live at Home 2*: the Elektron Digitone, MFB TanzbÀr and Roland S-1. This time, though, it's one continuous piece rather than a collection of patterns and ideas.

All three instruments are connected to the **Teenage Engineering KO II Sidekick EP-136**:
Channel 1: MFB TanzbÀr - punchy analog drums
Channel 2: Elektron Digitone - all the synth parts, plus some FM percussion
AUX input: Roland S-1 - Bass

The MIDI chain is pretty straightforward: Digitone to S-1 to TanzbÀr.
The Digitone sequences the S-1, while the TanzbÀr runs its own internal sequencer.

Things get a little more… unpredictable during the second half of the track, where I start playing around with the Sidekick's Loop effect to create all sorts of drum breaks.

It was an absolute pleasure to play with - perhaps a little too much of a pleasure, judging by how often I kept using it! 😄

But hey, sometimes you find an effect that makes you want to keep pushing it just a little further.

Hope you'll enjoy this one!

As always, the performance was recorded in a single take. I mixed and mastered the individual tracks afterwards in Ableton Live."

Saturday, October 17, 2026

GeoShred SWAM Collection 3/4


video upload by Jordan Rudess

"I bet you never expected to see me playing a TUBA! 😂đŸŽș

But here I am, and believe it or not, this magnificent instrument is now part of my GeoShred app!

One of the things I love most about GeoShred is how incredibly expressive, ultra-realistic, and just plain fun these instruments are to play. And now we’ve added even more!

Our latest GeoShred and GeoShred Studio release brings 10 new GeoSWAM instruments, including Tuba, Baritone and Soprano Saxophone, Flugelhorn, French Horn, and more!

And these aren’t just sounds you trigger. They’re instruments you can really play, with an amazing amount of expression and control. That’s what makes GeoShred so special.

You can try any instrument before buying, and we’re also offering an introductory 33% discount on GeoSWAM 3/4 collections.

So here’s a little tuba performance for you. Who would’ve thought? đŸ˜ŽđŸŽ¶

Can’t wait to hear what you all create with these new instruments!

www.geoshred.com"

Side note: GeoShred made its first appearance on the site in 2015.

Wednesday, October 07, 2026

Rob Papen Introduces QUAD-2


video upload by Rob Papen

Press release follows:


Rob Papen announces availability of QUAD-2 virtual instrument plug-in as followup to QUAD, initially introduced as Rack Extension synthesizer for Reason

ECHT, THE NETHERLANDS: Rob Papen Inspiration Soundware is proud to announce availability of QUAD-2 as a followup to QUAD — initially introduced as its first Rack Extension synthesizer built from the ground up for the-then Swedish software company Propellerhead’s popular Reason platform (anchored around a user interface mimicking a rack full of equipment, allowing instruments, effects, and mixers to be linked together in order to create a complete production setup) back in October 2014, before popular demand drove the Dutch virtual instrument and effect plug-in developer into making it more widely available as an AAX-, AU-, and VST-compatible virtual instrument plug-in for Mac and PC in April 2020 — with an updated user interface and added features, as of October 7…

Monday, September 28, 2026

The Absolute Sequencer Powerhouse. Introducing Behringer BCR32


video upload by Behringer

"The Behringer BCR32 is much more than a MIDI controller with 32 rotary encoders. Join Bartek as he runs us through its powerful hands on sequencing features and shows how the built in Zaquencer can create melodies chords basslines and drums with multiple synthesizers. We really like how immediate the BCR32 feels and how easily it can become the brain of a MIDI or modular synthesizer setup. Let us know what you think about the BCR32 and share your ideas feature requests or bugs at ideas.behringer.com. Check out our other Behringer demos and synthesizer videos to see more gear in action."



USB/MIDI Controller/Sequencer with 32 Multi-Purpose Encoders and Polyphonic 32-Step / 4-Track Zaquencer

BCR32 — THE ZAQUENCER SEQUENCER, NOW WITH 32 KNOBS UNDER YOUR FINGERTIPS

Hardware controllers either give you knobs OR a sequencer. The BCR32 gives you both, in one of the most powerful USB/MIDI control surfaces ever built at this price. Thirty-two multi-purpose encoders. Twenty programmable buttons. A 32-step, 4-track sequencer powered by the legendary ZAQ Audio Zaquencer — the firmware that turned the original BCR2000 into a cult favourite among electronic music producers worldwide.

Every panel element is freely assignable, manually or through an intuitive learn mode. Eight of the 32 encoders are dual-mode with push function. Buttons can act as note on/off, control change, program change, MMC commands or system-exclusive triggers — meaning you can map this thing to literally anything your studio throws at it. Trigger audio clips, drive MIDI instruments, ride DAW automation, or build the entire performance from scratch.

The Zaquencer takes things into another dimension. Mono or polyphonic drum and note tracks, 192 stored patterns each made of 4 tracks, plus 2 independent MIDI controls per track for program change, aftertouch, pitch bend and CCs. Four CV/Gate and Sync connectors lock the BCR32 to modular rigs, drum machines and the analog world. Two assignable footswitch inputs free your hands. A multi-function OLED display, high-visibility multi-colour LED feedback and 4 virtual groups keep complex setups crystal-clear. One MIDI input, two MIDI outputs and a merge function let it double as a USB-to-MIDI interface and cascade with other control units. USB powered, Apple iPad compatible (via Camera Adapter, sold separately), class-compliant for plug-and-play operation. Pure performance power.

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Knock Out 🎚️(Teenage Engineering K.O.-Sidekick EP-136 // MFB Tanzbar // Roland S-1 // J-6)


video upload by 2-Minute Warning

"A new little piece of gear joins the setup! 🎛️

This time, I'm introducing the Teenage Engineering KO II Sidekick EP-136 , a small but surprisingly powerful little mixer, and a very welcome addition to the setup.

And this one is a little different from my last jams: there's no external sequencers like the Squarp Hapax or Arturia Keystep Pro involved! 😄

Instead, I'm using the built-in sequencers of all 3 instruments in the setup: the MFB TanzbÀr , Roland S-1 and *Roland J-6*. It's actually quite refreshing to let the instruments take care of their own sequences for once.

The TanzbÀr is on Channel 1 , bringing its punchy analog drums to the party. Channel 2 is shared by the Roland S-1 and *Roland J-6*: the J-6 handles the bass and chords, while the S-1 also provides the lead chimes during the intro.

The problem? The Sidekick only has *2 stereo channels*.

So, naturally, I had to cheat a little. 😄

Friday, September 25, 2026

Did Jacob Brashears Reinvent the Synthesizer? — THE RELIC


video upload by Anthony Marinelli Music

See the Shear Electronics label for additional posts.

"THIS SYNTH IS NEXT LEVEL!
A few years ago, I first met Jacob Brashears at NAMM, where he debuted an extraordinary new synthesizer called the Relic. Now, the Relic is finished and after spending time with it, I think it’s worth asking:

Is this the most impressive synthesizer made in the last 40 years?

In this video, Jacob takes me through the Relic’s front panel and shows how this remarkable instrument works. Then I get behind the keyboard and play sounds that I created in just a few hours. The Relic has an incredibly expressive character that seems to combine the best qualities of classic vintage Oberheim, Moog, and ARP synthesizers with some very sophisticated modern technology.

It has the immediacy and character of the great analog instruments of the past, while incorporating modern advancements, routing and expression…and even the ability to continue evolving through future firmware updates. One of the things that really surprised me is the Relic’s distortion. I demonstrate sounds with distortion that feels remarkably organic and nonlinear, much more like the behavior of a great guitar amplifier than conventional synthesizer distortion.

I’ll also play expressive keyboard sounds, leads, basses, and other patches I created while exploring the instrument, so you can hear what the Relic is capable of in the hands of a musician. Jacob has clearly put an enormous amount of thought into this synthesizer, and the result is an instrument that feels both deeply connected to synthesizer history and genuinely forward-looking.

Watch Jacob take you through the Relic and hear what happens when I get my hands on it."

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

New Maschine 3.7 update and Expansions | Native Instruments


video upload by Native Instruments

"Maschine is alive and evolving. The latest update packs in a host of fresh features. To celebrate, we’re launching three special Expansions, including Thirty – a Native Instruments 30th birthday addition.

Check it out: https://www.native-instruments.com/pa...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:30 New Paris Heat Expansion
00:55 Generate tab
02:45 Melody generation
04:21 Chord generation
05:43 Variation tab
07:33 New Rage Circuit Expansion
07:56 Euclidean generation
10:12 New Thirty Expansion
10:29 Note probability
11:53 Probability lock
12:25 Free update
12:47 Outro"

Update: press release follows:



A MAJOR UPDATE FOR MASCHINE 3

Maschine 3 is Native Instruments' beat-making and music production software, usable on its own or with Maschine hardware. It's built to keep musical ideas flowing at every step, letting producers lay down beats, sample, arrange, and perform with virtual instruments or their own sounds, solo or inside a DAW. Maschine 3.7 adds a set of creative sequencing tools designed to get producers out of a blank grid and into a groove faster than ever.

Key Update Features

RANDOM NOTE GENERATOR: Let Maschine write the notes. Set the odds and start from an idea instead of an empty grid.

Wednesday, September 09, 2026

VAV N-Wave: Middle-Out Waveshaper


video upload by Magical Synth Adventure

"Join me as I take the @control_voltage VAV N-Wave Middle-Out Waveshaper for a spin!

The N-Wave is a really imaginative waveshaper. Some waveshapers might fold over the peaks of an incoming waveform, some might rectify them - squaring things off like a fuzz pedal. N-wave keeps the peaks of waveform - like the top and bottom of a saw wave - intact, and instead lets you shape and turn up on the volume on a section in the middle of the waveform - leading to unique tones. This is especially true, as you can vary the width of this middle section!"

video uploads by control_voltage

Playlist:

1. VAV N-Wave: Step Sequenced Threshold
One fun live performance (or studio) use for the N-Wave is to connect a Step Sequencer on the Threshold CV and generate different timbres for each step in a sequence. These act as accents and add a lot of life and feel to your sequences and the feel can easily be changed on the fly using something like a Joranalogue Step 8 as your source of steps.
2. VAV N-Wave: Threshold Ring Modulation
In Part 2 of the VAV N-Wave Video Manual, we look at using the threshold control and bipolar vca cv to create new waveforms that have a mixture of normal and ring modulated (quadrature) segments.
3. VAV N-Wave Mangles a Triangle
Here, the N-Wave does quite a number on an unsuspecting triangle wave with the help of some nearby modules. N-Wave is kind of like that one kid's house where everyone hung out and cooked up weird DnD campaigns or something. But for modular signals.



"N-Wave is a novel waveshaper for the Eurorack modular format. Unlike traditional wavefolders and clippers, which operate on the peaks of a waveform, N-Wave leaves peaks intact. All you need to expand your sound palette greatly is a VCO signal and a few twists of the knobs!

Using its internal bipolar VCA (aka four quadrant multiplier, aaka ring modulator) you can apply gain reduction and polarity inversion to an inner portion of the wave slope that you define with the THRESHOLD and OFFSET controls.

All functions can also be controlled via control voltage inputs. LFOs, Audio Rate VCOs, ADSR Envelopes, 1V/Oct signals, sequenced voltages, sample and hold signals, noise, and sub octave signals are all very good choices and can produce results ranging from very musical to very strange. An external detector signal can also be applied if you don't want to trigger the detector on the waveform you're modifying.

If you like, you can also use N-Wave as a high quality bipolar VCA, attenuverter, or ring modulator with the THRESHOLD set to maximum and dynamically mute the effect by applying 0V or a negative voltage to the threshold either using a sequencer or manual control, which allows for hocketing and rhythmic effects.

N-Wave can also operate all the way down to 0hz (DC), so, in addition to audio, it can process LFOs, envelopes, 1V/octave sequences, and any other signal that varies amplitude over time (Sorry, square waves and pulse waves. Your super-sonic rise times are hard to shape in an audible way, but you do work well as control signals).

N-Wave is 10HP and uses Burr Brown op amps for the primary signal path alongside high quality Texas Instruments ICs that are carefully chosen to best fit their roles in the circuit."

Friday, August 14, 2026

The Crow Hill Company Introduces ARCANE STRINGS


video upload by CROW HILL

Press release follows:



EDINBURGH, UK: readily representing its first ‘big’ release in over a year (when the temporarily out-of-circulation GLASS STRINGS was effectively re-released with a totally redesigned GUI and added features as the Edinburgh-based enterprise’s workhorse string library for a new era in more human-sounding music and scores, coinciding with rebranding itself with an aesthetic that truly realised company co-founder and composer Christian Henson’s heartfelt dream of encouraging people to make music and help them on their journey, regardless of whatever point they were at and wherever their journey began), The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of ARCANE STRINGS — taking the sampling rule book and ripping it up, ultimately resulting in a string library featuring amateur players in order to achieve an arcane, primitive, dislocated, microtonal, loose, and sometimes savage sound duly designed for media composers wanting to leave a truly characterful imprint on their next drama score, or, indeed, composers who want to gain extra devilish bite out of their existing string collections — as of August 14…

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Inside Tokyo’s Boutique Music Hardware: Light Reft


video upload by Light Reft [Sasha DZA]

"We run a tiny hardware company in Tokyo and made this short film about why we’re obsessed with noise. We’re thinking about filming a longer documentary about Japan’s small independent instrument makers.

With this video, we want to open a door into the world of Japan’s independent music hardware scene, a world that usually remains outside the attention of a wider audience.

We are Light Reft, a small company founded by a group of enthusiasts in Tokyo. Over the past few years, we have developed and released two instruments of our own - monolit and concrete. You can learn about us on our web-site www.lightreft.jp

But we are far from alone.

In Tokyo and across Japan, there are many small independent companies, workshops, and individual makers creating unusual musical instruments, effects, and electronic devices. Many of them remain virtually unknown outside a small circle of musicians, even though this is where some genuinely interesting things are happening.

This video is only the beginning.

If you would like to see a full-length film about Japan’s independent music hardware scene, meet the people who design and build instruments themselves, visit their workshops, and find out why they do what they do - let us know in the comments.

And please share this video. If we see that people are genuinely interested in this world, we’ll continue and try to show this scene from the inside.

Video & Editing - Evgeny Joy
Sound - Sasha DZA (Light Reft)"

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

SinTH2 - answers to your questions (subtitles on, please))


video upload by SinTH2

Click CC for subtitles.

Transcript:

0:022 secondsGood morning. Hello everyone. Tom Horn, that is Tomasz RoĆŒek. Greeting you from my

0:077 secondsmodest little studio. As you can see, behind me are two finished instruments. This

0:1313 secondsis the folding panel version, as you already know, the fixed panel version, and the third version, which is behind me, which is still being built. The enclosure, as you can see, is

0:2323 secondsalready finished, but this is the desktop version. I think it's a really nice one. It will be finished in about two weeks. And that's exactly what I wanted to

0:3131 secondstalk to you about, to tell you how things look at the moment, because I'm getting a lot of questions, a lot of emails and messages about when you'll be able to order

Thursday, August 06, 2026

The Crow Hill Company Announces POCKET STRINGS Plug-in for Free


The Best Strings Plugin Money CAN'T Buy??? video upload by CROW HILL

Press release follows:


The Crow Hill Company announces availability of popular POCKET STRINGS plug-in for free, bringing broadcast-grade string possibilities to everyone

EDINBURGH, UK: around a year after its initial launch, not long after the Edinburgh-based enterprise effectively rebranded itself with an aesthetic that truly realises company co-founder and composer Christian Henson’s heartfelt dream of encouraging people to make music and help them on their journey, regardless of whatever point they were at and wherever their journey began, The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce that it has made its popular POCKET STRINGS — styled as a never-tried-before strings plug-in that aims to bring broadcast-grade string possibilities to everyone by combining live cinematic orchestral recordings of some of the best musicians working in the UK with some rarefied vintage synth classics made to measure for added body, depth, and character — available for free with no strings attached (but pun intended), as of August 6…

Monday, August 03, 2026

Straight Techno Live Jam // Elektron Tonverk ft. Sequential Take 5 & Oxi E16


video upload by umonox

"Can we do a Straight Techno Track with just one Pattern on the Elektron Tonverk? This Live Jam will answer that Question! Feat. Elektron Tonverk, Sequential Take 5 Desktop and Oxi Instruments E16.

The Tonverk does all the Drums and Sound except for a Drone Background Synth that is played by the Sequential Take 5. The Oxi E16 is controlling a Track on the Tonverk with multiple Parameters at once - a great Setup for a Dawless Live Jam Experience!"

đŸŽ” TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Live Jam Start (Building things up)
01:52 - Bringing some new Sounds
02:15 - Starting the Sound Transition with the E16
03:09 - Playing through
04:11 - The awesome Take 5 Buildup (that you heard in the Intro)
04:41 - Outro

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GEAR USED IN THIS VIDEO:
• Elektron Tonverk (Polyphonic Multisampler & Audio Processor)
• Oberheim Take 5 Desktop (Analog Polyphonic Synthesizer)
• OXI Instruments E16 (MIDI Controller & Sequencer)


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