4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (734+ words) Dillon Bastan Iota II is a new visual spectral multi-sampling workstation that could be the spiritual successor to the long-missing iZotope Iris 2. Many years ago, iZotope released the sample-based spectral synthesizer, Iris. Later, they also released Iris 2. Both were multi-layer…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1698+ words) Audiomodern Soundbox is a sampler plugin platform with advanced features and a community-oriented sharing concept: update 1.3 with full MPE support is out now When Audiomodern launched the Soundbox sampler plugin in 2024, it was marketed with MPE support. That was true,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (529+ words) Oficina de Sonido Clave is a new portable 8-track drum machine powered by a Euclidean sequencer, coming soon to Kickstarter. A kick on the first, fourth, 8th etc. Snare on the third, etc. Anyone who has ever worked with a drum…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (540+ words) oZoe Drum Box is a new, hands-on, no-menu-diving 7-track drum machine from France with sample playback and creative sequencing. I met Jean-Luc Lartigue, founder of the French company oZoe, during my first visit to SynthFest France. He is a passionate,…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1726+ words) Wavea Flite 2.0: a major, feature-rich free update for its multi-engine synth, with new oscillator power, an overhauled sequencer engine, FX, and more. Almost exactly two years ago, Wavea, Sharooz Raoofi’s company, released the Flite Synthesizer. Since its release, it has…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (701+ words) Våld Labs Tresse is a new dual-layer 39-engine Synthesizer plugin for macOS, Windows, and soon iOS with a built-in generative sequencer. The beloved open-source Mutable Instruments Plaits algorithms are used in many projects. You can find them in open-source projects…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (546+ words) Shakmat Lancer’s Lash is a new, powerful yet hands-on multi-engine snare drum Synthesizer module for Eurorack. The Belgian company Shakmat Modular has been developing a complete drum Synthesizer system for some time. The first components of this system are already…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1311+ words) Iftah Sting 2 is an expressive and improvisational acid line generator for Ableton M4L and now also a plugin for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Programming a pattern on the original TB-303—or a clone—isn’t very intuitive, especially at first; to create…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (336+ words) The Ensoniq EPS-16+ sampler now has a free, open-source simulator for macOS by mardlib, built on the MAME framework. ROM simulators of vintage synthesizers and samplers are everywhere. In March, Sojus Records released the Ensoniq SD-1 as an open-source project....

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (455+ words) The Usual Suspects R-330 is a new Roland SRV-330 Dimension Space Reverb simulator for macOS, Linux, and Windows. So far, the team behind The Usual Suspects (TUS) has released synthesizer simulators. The good news: they are now expanding their portfolio with…...