Spektro Audio ACDGEN is now available in a hardware edition

From software plug-in to hardware gear: Spektro Audio from Brazil has announced that its ACDGEN pattern generator plug-in for Ableton Live is now available as a stand-alone box.

Roland finally re-releases the TB-303 Bass Line – on Roland Cloud

Roland has taken on the 3rd March as 303 day to reclaim the beloved TB-303 Bass Line synth and released an authentically modelled software version of the analogue classic - dammit!

Joyo introduces R-12 Band Controller, a 10-band graphic EQ pedal

Joyo is knocking the ball out of the park with its new R Series effects pedal line-up, now adding a new Band Controller 10-band graphic EQ that covers guitar and extended range instruments.

Need polyphony in your rack? Doepfer polyphonic Eurorack modules now available

Doepfer has been talking about their polyphonic modules for about a year but now they are available so you can start running and processing chords through your Eurorack.

Leak: Nektar about to debut SE25 and SE49 compact controller keyboards

Nektar want to make sure they have a MIDI controller keyboard for every possible occasion and are about to release the SE25 and SE49 entry-level controllers for the budget and simplicity conscious.

Watch John Mayer play the insane new Tosin Abasi Larada 8-string guitar

Abasi Concepts, Tosin Abasi's company, offered a sneak peek back at Winter NAMM of the new Larada guitar range - we now have specifications, prices and John Mayer playing one on Instagram!

Rare Waves Hydronium: semi-modular analog acid synth for desktop or Eurorack

The Hydronium is a complete semi-modular synthesizer available in tabletop or Eurorack versions assembled or as a kit. It's not trying to be a TB-303 but it sounds like one in the best possible way.

Chest Hair Bra Beat: The solution to problems you didn’t know you had!

The developer of Chest Hair Bra Beat has just created the solution to all of your problems: put on this wearable chest hair device and open up your shirt to make sexy sounds!

Tracklib courts controversy with “Impeach The President” beat contest

Tracklib has invited rapper/producer Drumma Boy to judge a beat contest titled “Impeach The President”, one of the most sampled tracks of all time originally penned by The Honey Drippers.

Remember the Gibson Jimi Hendrix Signature “Strat”? Now you can buy a prototype.

The planned Jimi Hendrix signature guitar range by Gibson spawned a few prototypes before the project was canned in 2009 - now one of the prototypes has resurfaced and is up for sale...

More on the SP-2400 sampler – and not from Behringer

Assumptions about Behringer being behind the rendered image of something called an SP-2400 seem misplaced as producer Ken Flux Pierce releases more images and a tiny bit more information.

West Co Pedals Grease Juicer fuzz/envelope filter pedal

West Co's new Grease Juicer box contains a dollop of fuzz mixed with a handful of envelope filter for some seriously funky tones, and is available in two versions tweaked for guitar or bass.

Acustica Audio Amber 3 is now a full-blown plug-in suite

Acustica Audio has released Amber 3, that adds to v2's EQ with a compressor and a preamp as well as a new channel strip plug-in, which combines all three units into one.

Teenage Engineering OP-Z gets a hardware upgrade with the oplab MIDI/CV module

The little yellow oplab accessory for the OP-Z brings CV, trigger, gate, Pocket Operator sync and MIDI In/Out making it so versatile you've got to wonder why it didn't have it in the first place?

Reed200: a spectral modelled 200A Wurlitzer

Sampleson uses spectral analysis and modelling to faithfully recreate the Wurlitzer 200a in only 30MB of sine wave samples. The Reed200 is refreshingly simple and delightfully full of character.

MidiWrist app: Turn your Apple Watch into the most cramped MIDI controller ever

MidiWrist is a new app that can turn your Apple Watch into a MIDI controller - but will the teeny surface area of the watch reduce its usability for musicians?

SP-2400: Is Behringer developing an Emu sampler clone?

An unexplained and unsourced 3D render of what could be a sampler based on the Emu SP-1200. The SP-2400 image doesn't come with many facts but all eyes turn to Behringer for an explanation.

Hoerold VoIS is an analog stereo vocoder – and a massive DIY project

Looking for an analog studio vocoder? Used a soldering iron before? Here's a promising new option: The Hoerold VoIS has 18 frequency bands and comes with a stereo mode, among many other features.

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?