Samples of the week: Vocalise 3, Aquatic Predators, Master Tanbur

Samples of the week is here with new releases by Heavyocity, BOOM Library, Rast Sound, and other sampling maestros!

Golden Age Project PRE-73 Jr Premier announced

Swedish manufacturer Golden Age Project announced the Pre-73 Jr Premier, an affordable boutique version of the compact Pre-73 Jr.

Catalinbread Fuzzrite Germanium: Rare ’60s fuzz recreated

Catalinbread's Fuzzrite Germanium is based on a rare Mosrite fuzz from the late 1960s. Recreating the vintage tone, but offering a modern one as well.

Noise Engineering Tymp Legio and Polydactyl Versio

More DSP-based modules from Noise Engineering. Tymp Legio is a percussion module with "Wackitude", and Polydactyl Versio brings multiband dynamics.

Ernie Ball Music Man HT Series: Heat Treated pickups

Ernie Ball Music Man HT Series has now officially launched with the new  Cutlass HT, StringRay HT and Sabre HT models. Each with heat-treated pickups.

Kramer Striker Collection: ’80s shred on a budget

Kramer Striker Collection features three new '80s shred-style models with bold colours. Each model also offers plenty of bang for your buck.

iZotope Ozone 10 and RX 10: free upgrades if you buy v9 until Sep 12

iZotope announced Ozone and RX 10 are coming very soon, with solid discounts and free upgrades to Ozone / RX 10 coming your way at launch.

Midweek Modular: Timbral sculpting, 101 sequencing and Roots melodies

This week saw an extraordinary filter folder from FSS, an SH-101 style sequencer from ALM and discovered extraordinary melodies in ROOTS.

Synthfest 2022 and Modular Meets Leeds: Not to be missed!

Tickets are available, and programme details emerge for this year's Synthfest in Sheffield. Meanwhile, this weekend there's Modular Meets Leeds.

Excite Audio plug-ins get Apple Silicon compatible updates, go on sale

Excite Audio plug-ins got Apple Silicon compatibility updates and went on sale at EUR 59 each (EUR 68 reg.) The Lifeline Bundle is a great deal, too.

Pigtronix Gloamer adds swells and plays with your attack

Pigtronix Gloamer is a fully analogue, polyphonic amplitude synthesizer. Perfect for playing with your guitar's attack and sustain.

Wampler Moxie a new TS10-style drive pedal

The Wampler Moxie offers TS10 Tubescreamer overdrive tones with a twist, adding more tones and flexibility than a regular TS-style drive

Guitar Gear Gems: Pedal Pawn Octone and more

Guitar Gear Gems this week features the Pedal Pawn Octane, Free The Tone IG-1N noise gate and the Flower Pedals Sunflower Stereo Harmonic Tremolo

WMD to close by the end of the year and releases three new modules

WMD has announced it's going out of business. As a last hurrah, it's releasing 3 new modules; Subway, Legion and Orion on a limited run.

Mackie Thump and Thump XT: Refreshed and expanded PA speakers & subs

Mackie Thump series: refreshed and expanded for 2022 with Thump XT! This new and updated app-enabled range of speakers should find fans everywhere.

Busy Circuits ASQ-1: SH-101 sequencing and triggering for Eurorack

The ASQ-1 is a two-channel SH-101 style sequencer and 4-track classic drum machine with clacky keys and a playful intention.This looks like fun!

Future Sound Systems FIL4 Timbral Sculptor: Folds, filters and fiddles

The FIL4 Timbral Sculptor is a playground of harmonic alteration that pulls in filters, folding, rectifying and a VCA to take care of tonal fiddling.

Samples of the week: Neo Erhu, Solo Strings, Riffendium, and more

Samples of the week hits with Neo Ergu, new solo strings by the Vienna Symphonic Library, a feathered flute, and more...

Tesseract Modular Step Fader MkII: Drunken dual channel sequencer

The Step Fader MkII is a single 16-step or dual 8-step sequencer with a built-in quantizer. It will generate drunk, random or regular CV and Gates.

Tokyo Dawn sale: 40% off plug-ins and bundles until August 31, 2022

Tokyo Dawn is taking up to 40% off 6 plug-ins and 2 bundle variants in an exclusive offering with our affiliate partner Plugin Boutique.

Gretsch expands Electromatic Double Jets range

The Gretsch Electromatic Double Jets range has expanded with new options including both Filter'Tron and Broad'Tron pickups, plus a Bigsby option

Neural DSP Archetype Rabea with dual-oscillator monosynth

Neural DSP Archetype Rabea includes a host of amps, effects and EQ, along with a fully-fledged dual-oscillator monosynth that needs no extra hardware

Midweek Modular: Misha’s intervals, Vector Waves and Liquid Sky UFOs

Eventide has released their weird and musical Misha, Cherry Audio splits a Minimoog into virtual modules, and RYK brings Vector Waves to Eurorack. 

Erica Synths EDU DIY Noise/S&H: Understanding randomness

The next module from Erica Synths & Moritz Klein is the EDU DIY Noise/S&H. It can add ballast to your filter sweeps and randomness to your modulations