Superbooth 17: Special Rolling Report

All the hot news from Berlin's Superbooth 17 event, happening right now! Loads of new synths and other gear are being presented by manufacturers big and small alike...

Superbooth 2017: Rossum Electro-Music Assimil8or Phase Modulation Sampler

Prepare yourself as multi-timbral phase modulation sampling hits Eurorack in the shape of Rossum Electro-Music's Assimil8or

Superbooth 2017: Crusher-X granular synthesis reaches level 6

Crusher-X granulates audio in elaborate ways for sound designers and guitarists. The new version brings masses of reverb, tuning and modulation.

Superbooth 2017: Music Thing Modular demos 5 new modules

Music Thing has a bunch of prototypes on the Thonk stand including the Startup headphone amp, mixer, LFO, a Graphic EQ, Spring Reverb 2, Magnetophon and Chord Organ.

StudioLinked Studio Rack is a no-frills, great-looking multi-effect plug-in to get stuff done

StudioLinked's Studio Rack is designed as a visually pleasing time-saver that comes with plenty of built-in effects and a boatload of presets ready to grace a budding producer's tracks...

Superbooth 2017: U-He models the Prophet-5 as Repro-5

U-He develop their Repro-1 monosynth into the polyphonic Repro-5 with quite stunning results. Apparently inspired by an old Sequential Circuits synthesizer.

Superbooth 2017: What’s Yamaha inventing with the Reface Robot?

Yamaha are showing a Reface CS being played and manipulated by a robot interface designed by Anno Labs. Is the Reface Robot science fiction or an exciting new direction?

Superbooth 2017: Eowave Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer

A nebulous and shimmering sound of exquisite and unfamiliar timbres - this is the Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer

Superbooth 2017: Eloquencer, the Eurorack sequencer that controls chance

Winter Garden are presenting their Eloquencer, an 8 track sequencer dripping with per-step probability and pattern generating randomness.

Are QSC really providing twice the power on their new K.2 PA speaker series?

Have QSC really doubled up the power of their well-known K Series active PA speakers, or is the K.2 Series just a marketing frolic?

Plugin-Alliance’s Multiband “Mastering Beast”: Lindell 354E Compressor Plug-in

From the Plugin Alliance camp comes a retooled version of the Lindell 254E plug-in: the 354E, wich boasts multiband Neve-style compression.

Superbooth 2017: Behringer DeepMind 12 Desktop and DeepMind 6

Behringer's Midas team reveal the 2 "new" synthesizers promised for Superbooth. We have a DeepMind 12 Desktop and a DeepMind 6 - Oh, I'm slightly disappointed.

Superbooth 2017 Leak! Novation Circuit Mono Station Synthesizer

A new paraphonic analogue synth and sequencer box from Novation. The Circuit Mono Station Synthesizer is Novation's second big reveal of Superbooth 2017.

Superbooth 2017 Leak! Novation Peak: 8 Voice polyphonic Synthesizer

A day before Superbooth is due to open images of the Novation Peak leak onto a couple of music store websites and the front cover of next months Sound On Sound magazine. Now with video preview!

GarageBand and other apps now completely free for MacOS and iOS

Apple has made GarageBand, iMovie and other apps free to download. And this time they really mean free, as you no longer have to buy a MacOS or iOS device to get them or the latest version.

Superbooth 2017: buzz, noise and previews

Superbooth 17 is a synthesis and music technology festival held in Berlin between 20th-22nd April. Here's all the news, previews and leaks of what we can expect to see at the show. (Updated 19/04).

ParamLink: Wire up effect plug-ins to control each other in your DAW

Can this simple but effective idea get you to rethink automation in your DAW? ParamLink is a new tool that lets you use plug-in A to control plug-in B. Or C, X or Z, for that matter...

Waverazor: Torturous, virtual future-synth that will cut you in half

Behind the neon lies the fiercely digital serrated edge of Waverazor, a future synthesizer for torturing innocent waveforms.

Xotic Effects Soul Driven, a new “harmonically rich” overdrive guitar pedal

An interactive tone stack with tonal sweet spots and easy-to-dial-in drive tones: The new Soul Driven overdrive aims to offer "harmonically rich overdrive".

PUSH TURN MOVE – the book for all electronic knob twiddlers

PUSH TURN MOVE is a beautiful book charting the design of music technology interfaces. Just arrived on Kickstarter it's packed full of gear, interviews and stunning photography.

Line 6 Helix free 2.20 software update

With the recent addition of the Helix LT now Line 6 are also treating their users to a free software update for all Helix owners.

Special Easter Sales: Big savings on instruments and plug-ins and where to find them

Easter sales on music gear are two a penny at the moment, find out here where the best offers are to be found.

FLXS1: the 4 channel Step Sequencer from planet Zetaohm

With space alien buttons and a rainbow colour scheme the FLXS1 would stand out in any Eurorack. But it's the 4 channels of arps, random and modulating step-sequencing that makes it out of this world.

Audio Damage converts EOS reverb plug-in into Eurorack

Does converting a $49 reverb plug-in into a $500 Eurorack module make any sense? Audio Damage seems to think so with the release of the ADM23 EOS (hardware version).