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Month: January 2026

Future Retro 777
Hardware

Future Retro 777, a modern comeback of the analog bassline Synthesizer: new demo

January 31, 2026 Synth Anatomy 8

Future Retro has revived the 777 analog bassline Synthesizer with new circuitry and new features: it’s now on Kickstarter. The Future Retro 777 Synthesizer is back in an expanded form. Its development was funded via […]

Surge Synth Team Shortcircuit XT
FREE Music Software (Plugins, Apps...)

Surge Synth Team Shortcircuit XT: open-source sampler plugin is now in beta

January 31, 2026 Synth Anatomy 1

Surge Synth Team Shortcircuit XT brings back Vembertech’s Shortcircuit sampler as an open-source, free plugin, and it’s now in beta. Many years ago, more precisely in 2018, the open-source community took over Claes Johansen’s (aka […]

Synsonic Instruments commercial plugins
FREE Music Software (Plugins, Apps...)

Synsonic Instruments offers its commerical drum synth plugins for FREE

January 31, 2026 Synth Anatomy 1

Synsonic Instruments has made its initial commercial drum plugins (Apollon, BD-808 Pro, BDE-01) available as free plugins for macOS and Windows. Popular free drum synth plugins include the BD-808 Free and BD-909 Free from developer […]

Armory Plugins LaunchCodes
FREE Music Software (Plugins, Apps...)

Armory Plugins LaunchCodes: a free Synthesizer for explosive hits and basses

January 30, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

Armory Plugins LaunchCodes is a new free Synthesizer plugin for macOS and Windows designed for explosive hits and basses. Virtual analog, FM, wavetable… nowadays there’s a free alternative to almost every commercial Synthesizer. Most of […]

AudioThing Space Strip
iOS

AudioThing Space Strip: modular multi-FX plugin for mac, linux, win, and now iOS

January 30, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

AudioThing Space Strip, a modular multi-FX processor plugin, is now available for macOS, Linux, Windows, and iOS. In recent years, AudioThing has brought many of its popular desktop plugins to iOS/iPadOS, significantly enhancing the quality […]

Hannes D'Hoine Strike
Max For Live, Reaktor, Pure Data...

Hannes d’Hoine Strike: free M4L device brings MI Rings to Ableton Live

January 30, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

Hannes d’Hoine Strike brings the open-source Mutable Instruments Rings module in a free Max for Live device (instrument/FX). After Mutable Instruments shut down, its products and code lived on as simple module clones or in […]

Hieroglyphic OPALINA
Eurorack

Hieroglyphic Opalina: a stereo filter network for spectral transformations

January 30, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

Hieroglyphic Opalina is a unique stereo state-variable filter network that functions as a CV-controllable resonator or isolator. Following the unique allpass filter-powered Smoothie Audio Smear, I’ll continue with another special Eurorack filter. When you hear […]

Smoothie Audio Smear
Eurorack

Smoothie Audio Smear, a stereo filter that doesn’t filter in a traditional way

January 30, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

Smoothie Audio Smear is a stereo filter module that doesn’t filter in a traditional way; instead, it’s more like a multi-FX, using 98-pole allpass filters. Analog and digital filter modules are essential parts of every […]

Decent Sampler Decent Synthesizer
FREE Music Software (Plugins, Apps...)

Decent Sampler, the popular free sampler plugin is now also a Decent Synthesizer

January 29, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

Starting with update 1.15, Decent Sampler is also a Decent Synthesizer thanks to the new built-in multi-wave oscillators. Many Kontakt users are currently worried due to Native Instruments’ preliminary insolvency. Besides Kontakt, there are other […]

DIY

Faselunare Cosmolab: an open-source Daisy Seed-based audio development kit

January 29, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

Faselunare Cosmolab is a new open-source Daisy Seed-based audio developer/DSP kit designed for rapid hardware prototyping. Final hours! Everything has a beginning, including the development of a Synthesizer, sampler, or effects unit. A digital instrument […]

Novation Launch Control XL 3
Audio & MIDI

Novation Launch Control XL 3: update 1.1 adds Mackie HUI support, fader pickup and more

January 29, 2026 Synth Anatomy 25

Novation Launch Control XL 3: new update 1.1 adds Mackie HUI support, fader pickup, and more to the MIDI controller. At Superbooth 2025, Novation released the Launch Control XL 3, the successor to their popular […]

Native Instruments insolvency
News

Native Instruments GmbH is preliminary insolvency: official statement

January 29, 2026 Synth Anatomy 29

Berlin-based hard- and software company Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency according to official documents. Nick Williams, CEO of Native Instruments, just shared an official statement, saying that the business and operation continue as […]

Apple Logic Pro 12
DAW

Apple Logic Pro 12 and Mainstage 4.0 are out now as free updates

January 28, 2026 Synth Anatomy 13

Apple is set to release Logic Pro 12 and Mainstage 4.0 on January 28, coinciding with the launch of the new Apple Creator Studio service. Good news, Apple Logic Pro 12 and Mainstage 4.0 are […]

RTMS VAPolyLoop
iOS

RTMS VAPolyLoop: a sequencing AUv3 Synthesizer for iOS/macOS

January 28, 2026 Synth Anatomy 3

RTMS VAPolyLoop is a new AUv3 virtual analog Synthesizer plugin for iOS and macOS designed to be sequenced. Ryo Togawa is certainly one of the most prolific iOS developers in synthesizer releases. He releases a […]

Ultimate Patches Moog Messenger
News

Ultimate Patches releases Moog Messenger patch library and free sounds

January 28, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

Ultimate Patches has released the Moog Messenger patch library with 200 new sounds, including a free taster pack with 15 patches. The Moog Messenger was available at a great price during the Christmas season. Many […]

teenage engineering EP-133 K.O. II
Hardware

teenage engineering EP-133 K.O. II: new version with 128 MB memory

January 28, 2026 Synth Anatomy 19

Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O II: new 128MB version of the portable sampler that builds on the PO-33 K.O. sampler. The Teenage Engineering KO II has become a staple in many mobile setups. It’s a perfect […]

Beepstreet Drambo 2.49
iOS

Drambo update 2.49: create your own modules in the modular groovebox (iOS/macOS)

January 28, 2026 Synth Anatomy 1

Drambo 2.49 is out now and introduces the Code module, which lets you create your own modules, alongside other smaller additions. Drambo is one of the best iOS grooveboxes. Certainly the most comprehensive, as it’s […]

Kodamo Mask1 Synthesizer
Hardware

Kodamo Mask1: discontinuation of the polyphonic Bitmask Synthesizer

January 27, 2026 Synth Anatomy 5

Kodamo has officially announced the discontinuation of Mask1, an original polyphonic synthesizer that uses Bitmask synthesis. Synthesizers come and go. Today we have both. This morning, it was announced that Frap Tools Magnolia, unveiled at […]

Strymon Nightsky plugin
News

Strymon Nightsky plugin: the experimental soundscape reverb for your DAW

January 27, 2026 Synth Anatomy 1

Strymon Nightsky, the unique, experimental stereo-soundscape reverb pedal, is now available as a macOS/Windows plugin for your DAW. In 2020, right in the middle of the pandemic, when we were making gear investments instead of […]

Embodme ERAE II synth engine
Audio & MIDI

Embodme ERAE II: upcoming update turns the MPE touch controller into a Synthesizer

January 27, 2026 Synth Anatomy 8

Buchla and Friends 2026: Embodme showcased a synth engine (ERAE SOUND) that will turn the ERAE II MPE touch controller into a Synthesizer. Two years ago, the young French company announced the ERAE II, the […]

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