Circuit Happy adds MIDI clock support to Missing Link for Ableton Link

Circuit Happy's Missing Link solution for syncing hardware devices and modular synthesizers via Ableton Link has seen a software update that adds support for MIDI clock.

Resynator: 70’s pitch tracking synthesizer rediscovered in a new documentary

Alison Tavel, the daughter of the late Don Tavel the inventor of the Resynator, is on a mission to resurrect her dad's pitch-tracking synthesizer through a documentary looking for Kickstarter funding

Best free plug-ins this week: Waves, TAS-X, LRC5 and CuSnP

Some more nice freebie pluggos for you this week, including a 3D audio visualizer, a tremolo, and two apps for iOS, an interesting strings-esque virtual instrument and an EQ.

K-Devices WOV and TTAP: creative modulation and dual-buffer delay plug-ins

K-Devices has two new plug-ins out that share the same development DNA: WOV is an amplitude modulator, TTAP is a creative delay. Plenty of creative potential here, we think...

Maxon OD808-40: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of a classic overdrive pedal

Maxon celebrates the 40th Anniversary of its classic green overdrive pedal with the release of the OD808-40, a limited run of 400 pedals including 40 signed by circuit designer Susumu Tamura!

Joyo R-09 Vision: 18 modulation effects in one pedal for under $90!

A super-affordable dual-channel modulation pedal with a staggering 18 effects onboard for $90. Will the Joyo R-09 Vision pedal clean up in the contest for best budget modulation pedal of the year?

SampleTank 4 with up to 8000 sounds and 250GB of samples available now

Whatever sound you can possibly imagine can probably be found amongst the 8000 presets of SampleTank 4. IK Multimedia's behemoth sample-based software workstation is available now.

ZVex Instant Lo-Fi Junky to ship in a new vertical edition

ZVex has just posted an image of a new vertical version of his Instant Lo-Fi Junky pedal on Facebook that will be easier to integrate into your pedalboard setup.

AcoustiTools for iOS: Using AR to solve live sound problems

Can an $18 iOS app can revolutionize speaker placement for live sound? The four modules included here use Augmented Reality and some pretty nifty tech to provide features we've never seen before.

Maker hart debuts beefed up Loop 8 mixer/audio interface

The new Loop 8 is a handy 8-channel audio mixer with a built-in audio interface, which looks to be a nice fit for setups involving small gadgets like the Korg Volca series.

ETHER: another weird object from Soma Labs – it captures electromagnetic waves

Vlad from Soma Laboratory produces some of the most wonderfully weird and fascinating devices. ETHER is an anti-radio that picks up the electromagnetic waves around you and turns them into a soundscape.

Igniter vehicle sound design: spaceships, sports cars, trucks and texture

Craft your own plane, train, rocket, bike, alien, chopper and automobile engine sounds with Igniter, a fascinating granular sampling and synthesizer sound design machine.

Washburn launches Nuno Bettencourt 4N signature model for 2019

Nuno Bettencourt, once guitarist with Extreme, has worked with the Washburn Custom Shop to update his famous N4 signature model guitar for 2019 - enter the new Washburn 4N edition!

Ibanez Jake Bowen JBM10FX: A budget signature guitar by the Periphery guitarist

This new lightweight high-performance signature guitar for Periphery's Jake Bowen certainly retains all the pro features you want, yet still manages to keep costs down.

Teenage Engineering open up about the OP-1 price hike

First the OP-1 was dead, then it was on eBay at vastly inflated prices, then it was alive again and now it's back with a 50% price hike - what's that all about?

4MS new modules let you plug in your headphones and Listen to your Eurorack

4MS has released the Listen range of modules which feature an expandable mixer that outputs modular and line audio signals and an I/O module that has a dual headphone output for you and a friend.

Rob Papen brings Rack Extension Vecto 4-oscillator vector synthesizer to VST

Rob says that they received so many requests to expand the reach of Vecto, their 4 oscillator vector synthesis based synthesizer, to other plug-in formats that he felt it rude not to. 

API The Box compact analog console gets a 2019 refresh

The stylish desk has eight input channels and eight 500 Series slots, as well as 16 summing channels (24 during mix) with LED metering. It uses the same circuitry and components as other API consoles.

Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro pulls decent Mellotron sounds out of your iPhone

If you have the room for authentically sampled Mellotron tapes on your iOS device then Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro will serve you up some classically trippy tape-based sounds.

12-voice analogue polysynth coming soon from GS Music

The image is only a 3D render but it shows the ambitious plans of Argentina based GS Music to make a 12-voice analogue synthesizer planned for September.

Another guitar made of 1200 coloured pencils – this time a Telecaster!

Burls Art has now made a Telecaster using 1200 coloured pencils and this time it has graduation in colour that makes it look more refined.

Possible CITES U-turn: Is Rosewood set for a comeback?

In big news for guitar makers, the UK's mia says that a proposal has been "nominally agreed" that would end many of the restrictions imposed on rosewood use in instrument making.

Zoom G1 Four and G1X Four: The ideal budget multi-effects pedals for beginners?

Two brand new budget multi-effect units from Zoom, the new G1 Four and G1X Four, cram in a bunch of effects, amp simulations, a tuner and drum machine for a very nice price.

Verv: Sunbaked Tape Loop Synthesizer with added degradation, wow and flutter

Verv is a string machine based on tape loops that have been left in the sun, on the dashboard of a car, in the desert, for the summer. It's wobbly wonderland of degraded sounds.