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How To Make A Futuristic MIDI Guitar (The Quadwave) Developer Michael Zarimis shared this video that provides a concise overview of his work creating a futuristic MIDI guitar, the Quadwave.
08.08.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wally De Backer Launches New Website Honoring Jean-Jacques Perrey Songwriter & synthesist Wally De Backer (Gotye) has launched a new website, dedicated to electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey. 
07.08.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Free Analog Percussion Samples From The MS 2600 NG Synthesizer The set contains 66 custom-designed patches in wave format, 44.1 kHz 24 bit mono, sampled by SampleRobot.
06.08.2025 21:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How To Make A DIY Bluetooth MIDI Controller The controller features 10 performance modes, connects over Bluetooth MIDI and works with any DAW or hardware synth.
06.08.2025 21:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sound Magic Intros CineGrand2, The ‘First Full Featured MIDI 2.0 Virtual Piano’ Sound Magic has introduced CineGrand2,  a lightweight virtual instrument (700MB) that promises to deliver “a level of detail comparable to massive 54GB sample libraries.”
05.08.2025 21:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Eurorack Module, X – Compact Multiple, Features Extensive Normalling Options The X – Compact Multiple features extensive normalling options, allowing it to be used as a single 1×12, two 1x6s, four 1x3s or a combination of the above.
05.08.2025 21:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Analog Oscillator Bank Module, OVUM For Eurorack The module features five individually controllable and routable triangle-core oscillators, letting you create droning dissonance, thick chords, or slow swelling modulation signals.
05.08.2025 21:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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KOMA Elektronik Sensei Connects Your Modular Synth To The Physical World KOMA Elektronik has released Sensei, a new Eurorack module that’s designed to let you connect your modular system to the real world. 
05.08.2025 00:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Telepathic Instruments Orchid Review – Hands-On With Tame Impala’s Idea Machine Here’s a hands-on review of the new Orchid, an advanced chord-generating hardware synthesizer.
04.08.2025 00:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Open Planet Software Intros Sessions 3.0, Sessions For iPad Open Planet Software has introduced Sessions 3.0, a major update to its performance-oriented plugin host, and Sessions for iPad.
02.08.2025 13:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Expressive E Releases Dune 3 Expressive Suite With 300 MPE-Compatible Patches The Suite features evolving pads, gritty textures, and expressive leads, all designed to respond to expressive performance, whether you are playing leads or polyphonically. 
01.08.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Waves Audio Upgrades Online Mastering Service, Adds Electronic Music Mastering Style Waves Audio has announced an upgrade to its Online Mastering service that they say delivers “enhanced clarity, tighter low end, pristine highs, and optimized loudness for digital platforms&#8…
01.08.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Excite Audio Intros Evolve Alloy, A Virtual Instrument Designed For Making Metallic Timbres Evolve Alloy is designed for making metallic timbres, using a core of metallic sound sources and synthesis
31.07.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How To Play Youtube Videos As A MIDI-Controlled Sampler Here’s how you can play Youtube videos as a MIDI-controlled sampler.
30.07.2025 23:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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New Max For Live Synth, Maya by Monomono Maya by Monomono features Juno-inspired oscillators, a resonant VCF, and a lush built-in chorus. 
30.07.2025 23:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Behringer Intros HALOS, A Mutable Instruments Rings Clone Like the original, HALOS is a modal resonator & physical modeling synthesizer in Eurorack format.
30.07.2025 22:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sifu Audio Intros Mix Dojo Reference Mixing Tool Sifu Audio has introduced Mix Dojo, a new app for Mac & Windows that they say offers an easy way to see and hear how your mix stacks-up against your favorite reference tracks.
29.07.2025 22:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Roger Linn Demonstrates How To Use The AKAI MPC As ‘The Ultimate Looper’ In this video, composer and electronic instrument design pioneer Roger Linn demonstrates how he uses the AKAI MPC as ‘the ultimate looper’.
29.07.2025 00:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Shut Up & Play: Sounds Of The Korg miniKORG 700Sm Synthesizer No ‘blah blah blah’, just demos of 14 patches that show the sonic range of the miniKORG 700Sm. 
29.07.2025 00:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AURA Plugins Intros Waldorf Blofeld Editor & Librarian AURA Plugins has introduced Waldorf Blofeld Editor & Librarian, a third-party editor for the Waldorf Blofeld. 
29.07.2025 00:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Acid Baseline Synth, Slippery Slope, For Ableton Live & Push Standalone Slippery Slope is a single-oscillator, mono acid-line synth voice for Ableton Live and Push 3 Standalone.
29.07.2025 00:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ambient Mellotron Improvisation Synthesist Jonathan Block shared this ambient improvisation featuring the classic sound of the Mellotron.
28.07.2025 03:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Arturia AstroLab 1.5 – Here’s What’s New Arturia has released AstroLab firmware 1.5, an update that they say “brings deeper creative control and smoother integration to your performance rig.”
28.07.2025 03:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Monoculture – The Story Of The Novation Bass Station In his latest video, Alex Ball takes a look at the story of the Novation Bass Station synthesizer.
28.07.2025 03:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Free sonicLAB Oceanic Combines Additive Synthesis & The Mathematics Of Ocean Waves sonicLAB has announced that Oceanic, a software bundle that they say “captures the essence of the ocean’s waves and transforms them into a symphony of additive sound synthesis,” is now availa…
27.07.2025 03:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Steve Roach: Life in the Soundcurrent Documentary Now Available To Stream On Amazon Life in the Soundcurrent is “much more than a documentary. It is a sensory experience, a visual journey into the life, legacy, and music of a remarkable artist, and a gentle reminder of the p…
25.07.2025 02:02 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Bob Moog Foundation Announces Synth Legends Live Streaming Event The ‘synthposium’ features synthesizer pioneers Bob Moog, Tom Oberheim, Dave Smith, Marcus Ryle and moderator Roger Linn.
25.07.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Morphonium Expressive Gestural MIDI Controller Sneak Preview This video demonstrates the Morphonium, a 3-part family of MIDI controllers that can be used to expressively shape sound in realtime.
25.07.2025 01:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How To Integrate A Hardware Analog Synth Into Your Elektron Rig In this video, Elektron guru Matthew Piecora shows how he integrates a hardware analog synth into his Elektron rig.
25.07.2025 01:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Neural DSP Intros Mantra All-In-One Vocal Effects Chain Plugin Neural DSP has introduced Mantra, a new all-in-one vocal production plugin for Mac & Windows. 
25.07.2025 00:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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