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Boutique electronic instrument makers Critter & Guitari has a new visual box of tricks that will generate fabulously dynamic video projections in response to your music.
The Novation V-Station and Bass Station plug-in bundle is currently on sale at 80% off. That's a perfect opportunity to add these emulations of two classic Novation synths to your collection.
This week's round-up includes a fantastic virtual bass guitar, a drum plug-in for throwback hip hop tracks, sounds for the Behringer Deepmind and a versatile piano sample pack from Muze.
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Waldorf's hybrid uber-synth Quantum gets a big 2.0 update including a whole new oscillator that brings in 6-operator FM and blows open many more possibilities.
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Elmyra is a platform for sonic exploration thru the weirdness of drones and implausibility of textures. It's inspired by that Godfather of weirdness the SOMA Labs Lyra-8 and you can build it yourself.
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BEATS is a collection of 28 percussive sounds and a few variations built into a single custom oscillator for the Korg Prologue, Minilogue XD and NTS from Tim Shoebridge.
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The Secret Southside Synthesizer Society (Tssss) has released a mini desktop synthesizer DIY kit called StartHere designed as a beginners introduction to Synth DIY and based on the MeeBlip Anode.
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From the workshop of SynthR comes the mighty SYNTHR3, a triple oscillator analogue synthesizer with up to 3-note paraphonic modes and a choice of classic filters.
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In a device about the size of a GameBoy XOR Electronics is introducing the NerdSEQ Portable featuring 8 tracks of tracker style sequencing, sampling, modulation, effects and synthesis. Now with video!
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Looking for a distraction? The excellent Moog Minimoog Model D virtual vintage synthesizer is now available to download for free from the Apple App Store.
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It looks like most of us will be spending a lot of time at home in the coming weeks. To help you make the best of it, Korg is giving away the Kaossilator iOS and Android apps for free!
SampleTank 4 is IK Multimedia's flagship workstation virtual synthesizer with up to 260GB of sounds. The new SampleTank 4 Custom Shop kicks you off with 4GB of sound content completely free.
This week's collection of free plug-ins includes two new releases by Analog Obsession and an experimental wavetable synthesizer. That's three new freeware plug-ins to keep you busy this Sunday!
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Graphic designer Robert Chrispijn has conceptualised the perfect companion to the Roland Boutique JX-03 by reimagining the PG-200 hardware programmer as the GP 002 virtual extension. Shame it's not real.
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Behringer takes a swipe at synth snobs with a video introducing the KIRN Corksniffer. Has the discussion about vintage authenticity got too silly or has Behringer turned nasty? Update: video's been pulled.
This week's collection of free plug-ins includes something for everyone: a legendary analogue synth, an amp sim and a patchable multi-tap delay. That's Tricent MkIII, Scorpion Multitap and Boogex 3.0.
