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Akai MPC Force 3.6
Grooveboxes

Akai MPC & Force 3.6 update introduces MPC Pro Pack with premium features, time signature & more

October 2, 2025 Synth Anatomy 8

Akai MPC & Force 3.6 firmware update is out now with project time signature support, a new drum articulation engine, new MPC Pro Pack plugins, and more. Akai today introduced the new MPC Live III, […]

Akai MPC Live III
Grooveboxes

Akai MPC Live III, groove workstation with more power, hands-control and 3D sensing technology

October 2, 2025 Synth Anatomy 17

Akai MPC Live III is the next generation of its MPC standalone groove workstation with more power, hands-on control, and all-new 3D sensing technology. With the MPC OS 3.0 update, Akai delivered a massive free […]

Hardware

Rainy Day Cumulus, hardware sampler turns your input into multi-layer loopscapes

September 6, 2025 Synth Anatomy 0

Knobcon 2025: Rainy Day Cumulus is a new battery-powered hardware sampler that turns your samples/loops into fully-controllable multi-layer soundscapes. Otem Relik has launched numerous exciting hardware synthesizers in recent years, which sold out in a […]

Woovebox 2.0
Grooveboxes

Woovebox 2.0, the mini sampling and synthesis groovebox gets even more features

August 30, 2025 Synth Anatomy 8

Woovebox is a new portable groovebox that squeezes a heck of synthesis and sampling features in a tiny cardbox groovebox: update 2.0 adds even more to it. Two years ago, a new developer released a […]

Sonicware LoFi-12 XT 1.5
Grooveboxes

Sonicware LoFi-12 XT retro sampling groovebox: update 1.5 with new features

August 28, 2025 Synth Anatomy 0

Sonicware melts the LIVEN LoFi-12 and SmplTrek elements in the new LoFi-12 XT, a portable, 8-track sampling groovebox with creative features. Great news from Sonicware. They have today published a major free update, version 1.5, […]

Bastl Instruments Kastle 2 Wave Bard
Hardware

Bastl Instruments Kastle 2 Wave Bard, new update adds USB MIDI to the semi-modular sample player

August 26, 2025 Synth Anatomy 0

Superbooth 2025: Bastl Instruments Kastle 2 Wave Bard is a new pocket sample player with an inspiring engine that invites to long experimental jams. At Superbooth 2025, Bastl Instruments presented the second new device from […]

wunderkammer WoO.1
Hardware

Wunderkammer WoO.1, battery powered portable sampler and looper for on-the-go Line Input update!

August 26, 2025 Synth Anatomy 19

Wunderkammer WoO.1 is a new battery-powered portable sampler and looper for on-the-go, launching this week on Kickstarter. A few days ago, the Kickstarter campaign for the Wunderkammer WoO.1 sampler launched. It almost wouldn’t have been […]

Critter & Guitar Organelle S2
Effects

Critter & Guitari Organelle S2, a more powerful version of the music computer

August 13, 2025 Synth Anatomy 0

Critter & Guitari Organelle S2 is the latest version of its beloved music computer with a more powerful CPU, and more. The Organelle by Gritter & Guitari is a small, portable mighty music computer with […]

Lambda Synthetics PolyPulse
Grooveboxes

Lambda Synthetics PolyPulse, algo-rhythmic synth and sampling groovebox is available now

August 5, 2025 Synth Anatomy 4

Lambda Synthetics PolyPulse, previewed at Superbooth 23, is a unique groovebox powered by algorithmic sequencing, multi-synthesis synthesis & sampling. It’s now available. At Superbooth 2023, the Dutch company Lambda Labs unveiled the PolyPulse, an algorithmic […]

Erica Synths Pikocore XL
Hardware

Erica Synths Pikocore XL DIY, Infinite Digits’ Lo-Fi sample player with creative audio mangling in beautiful back in stock

August 1, 2025 Synth Anatomy 0

Superbooth 2025: Erica Synths Pikocore XL packs Infinite Digits’ fascinating Lo-Fi sampler player and audio mangler into beautiful clothes. Update: Back in stock! On the World Wide Web, you can find countless lovely open-source projects […]

Elektron Digitakt II OS 1.15
Grooveboxes

Elektron Digitakt II, new OS 1.15 update adds slice machine to the hardware sampler

June 25, 2025 Synth Anatomy 18

Elektron has just released OS 1.15 for its Elektron II sampler, featuring the long-awaited slice-machine mode.  Since the release of the Digitakt II, Elektron has added numerous new features via free updates. These include a […]

Akai Force 3.5 firmware
Grooveboxes

Akai Force 3.5, new firmware brings MPC 3 functionality and full plugin compatibility

May 20, 2025 Synth Anatomy 8

Akai Force 3.5 is now in public beta and brings MPC 3 functionality and compatibility with the latest Akai/Air Music Tech/NI plugin releases. Last July, Akai announced MPC 3, a massive free OS upgrade for […]

Tempera polyphonic aftertouch
Hardware

Beetlecrab Audio Tempera: touch matrix will get polyphonic aftertouch support in the upcoming firmware release Beetlecrab Audio Tempera 2.1, new firmware turns it into a live granular FX processor

May 20, 2025 Synth Anatomy 1

Beetlecrab Audio Tempera 2.1 firmware is out now, and it turns the granular Synthesizer into a live, granular FX processor. Beetlecrab Audio released the Tempera 2.1 firmware in January last year, transforming the granular synthesizer […]

Native Instruments Maschine+ 1.6.1
Grooveboxes

Native Instruments Maschine+ 1.6.1 adds support for six effects plugins and more

April 17, 2025 Synth Anatomy 0

Native Instruments Maschine+ 1.6.1 adds support for five effects plugins in standalone mode, adjustable sample & buffer size, and more. Maschine+ is not dead. That was the title of an article I wrote in February […]

Roland SP-404 MKII 5.0
Hardware

Roland SP-404 MKII 5.0, new firmware turns the hardware sampler into a Serato DJ and Studio controller

April 3, 2025 Synth Anatomy 3

Roland SP-404 MKII 5.0, new firmware turns the popular hardware sampler into a fully integrated Serato DJ & Studio controller. In 2021, Roland released a major MKII upgrade for its hugely popular SP-404 sampler. Over […]

Hardware

Bastl Instruments discontinues Microgranny granular sampler and Kastle generation 1 synths

March 13, 2025 Synth Anatomy 1

Bastl Instruments discontinues its Microgranny granular sampler and the Kastle generation 1 synthesizers (1.5, drum, and ARP). Everything has a beginning and an end. This also applies to the synthesizer world. Bastl Instruments has now […]

Chompi Chase Bliss
Hardware

Chompi Club, creators of the Chompi hardware sampler are joining Chase Bliss

March 5, 2025 Synth Anatomy 0

Tobias and Chelsea, aka Chompi Club, the creators of the Chompi Club hardware sampler, are joining the pedal company Chase Bliss. Almost two years ago, Chompi Club launched a Kickstarter campaign for its hardware sampler, […]

Synthux Academy Spotykach
Hardware

Synthux Academy Spotykach: patchable dual looper with a creative, unpredictable soul: sound demo

February 28, 2025 Synth Anatomy 7

Synthux Academy Spotykach is an upcoming hands-on playable dual looper device with creative features and full-CV control. Shortly before the best days of the week, the weekend, the first sound demo of the upcoming Synthux […]

Isla Instruments S2400 DSP FX
Drum Machines

Isla Instruments S2400 DSP FX card brings FX plugins into the hardware sampler, is shipping now

January 30, 2025 Synth Anatomy 0

The Isla Instruments S2400 DSP FX card that brings FX plugins into the hardware sampler is now being shipped.  Good news for all those who have pre-ordered the Isla Instruments S2400 DSP FX card. The […]

Akai Pro Native Instruments MPC
Grooveboxes

Akai Pro partners with Native Instruments to bring new benefits to MIDI controllers and the MPC Platform

January 22, 2025 Synth Anatomy 5

NAMM 2025: Akai Pro has partnered up with Native Instruments to bring new features and exclusive sound content to the MPC platform. The modern beat production world consists of two camps: the Akai MPC and […]

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