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mookid Mono Maschine Drum
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mo0kid Mono Maschine Drum: a Monomachine/MachineDrum emulator controllable from Maschine

September 24, 2026 Synth Anatomy 8

mo0kid Mono Maschine Drum is a new combined desktop Monomachine/MachineDrum emulator that is controllable from the NI Maschine Mk3 Last week saw a wave of new Elektron Monomachine/Machinedrum emulators. However, none of them have yet […]

Elektron MachineDrum emulator browser
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Elektron MachineDrum emulator for your browser

September 19, 2026 Synth Anatomy 11

Elektron MachineDrum emulator is now playable with all the features in your browser without installation or ROM files. This was all about Elektron Monomachine and Machinedrum emulators. Two different emulators appeared: one replicating the full hardware […]

Pura Belia Fragua
News

Pura Belia Fragua: a polyphonic Synthesizer plugin driven by complex chaos

August 7, 2026 Synth Anatomy 2

Pura Belia Fragua is a new polyphonic Synthesizer plugin driven by nine chaos engines built on chaotic and strange-attractor systems. Synthesizers are most often used to create melodic sounds like basslines, leads, or rich textures. […]

Karst Tim Exile
News

Karst is Tim Exile’s own Reaktor-style modular audio environment for songwriters

July 28, 2026 Synth Anatomy 1

Karst by Tim Exile is a new Reaktor-style modular audio system designed for songwriters that runs in your browser and later also as a standalone app and plugin. British musician and developer Tim Exile has […]

GCS Model 8
DAW

GCS Model 8: a reel-to-reel machine-based studio environment for mac, win and iPadOS

June 22, 2026 Synth Anatomy 1

Gulf Coast Synthesis has released the GCS Model 8, a reel-to-reel machine-based studio environment for macOS, Windows, and iPadOS. These days, you open your favorite DAW and start producing. It used to be different. Back […]

Lambda Synthetics Wavetable Designer
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Lambda Synthetics Wavetable Designer: make custom wavetables for your synths in your browser

May 21, 2026 Synth Anatomy 2

Lambda Synthetics, creators of the PolyPulse groovebox, have released the Wavetable Designer, a tool for making custom wavetables. In recent years, the market has been flooded with hardware and software wavetable synthesizers. These synthesizers use […]

Fors FMS
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Fors FMS: an FM groovebox for your Game Boy Advance or emulator

May 4, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

Fors FMS is a software that turns your Nintendo Game Boy Advance or emulator into an FM groovebox. Is your Nintendo Game Boy Advance gathering dust somewhere in your apartment because you haven’t played it […]

Giorgio Sancristoforo Homework
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Giorgio Sancristoforo Homework: a tape-style software workstation with modular synths and FXs

April 27, 2026 Synth Anatomy 1

Giorgio Sancristoforo Homework is a new tape-style standalone experimental workstation software featuring modular synths and effects. When you hear the word “software” in the music world, you immediately think of VST plugins. But with Giorgio […]

GrainHeads 3.0
iOS

GrainHeads: AUv3 sequencing granular sampler for iOS/macOS: update 3.0 with new UI and more

April 26, 2026 Synth Anatomy 10

GrainHeads by Andrei Nevar is a new sequenceable granular sampler/Synthesizer app for iOS and macOS with eight playheads. When Andrei Nevar released the sequenceable granular sampler/synthesizer Grainheads at the end of March, it was still […]

NeverEngineLabs Incline
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NeverEngineLabs Incline: a resynthesis-driven granular Synthesizer by Cristián Vogel

March 12, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

NeverEngineLabs Incline is a new resynthesis-driven granular Synthesizer, transforming audio into a navigable sonic terrain And so it goes again. Following yesterday’s exciting new granular Synthesizer from Baby Audio, another has arrived.  NeverEngineLabs, a company […]

Condukt
iOS

Condukt: a supercharged MIDI controller app with smart mapping to hardware synths

March 9, 2026 Synth Anatomy 14

Condukt is a new supercharged MIDI control app with built-in LFOs, sequencers, and more, with ready-to-use MIDI definitions from over 200 synths. Hardware synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers are inspiring electronic instruments. But sometimes you […]

INA GRM Tools Atelier
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INA GRM Tools Atelier: a modular sound environment for colorful sonic manipulations: now for Windows

February 19, 2026 Synth Anatomy 2

INA GRM Tools Atelier, the spiritual successor to GRM Tools, is a modular environment for colorful sound manipulations. When INA released GRM Atelier last October, some of the interested parties were disappointed. The software wasn’t […]

Eventide Music Mouse
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Eventide Music Mouse revives Laurie Spiegel’s Intelligent Musical Instrument

February 17, 2026 Synth Anatomy 5

Eventide Music Mouse revives the innovative mouse-based computer music instrument from electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. In today’s world, we have smart plugins like Scaler 3 or built-in features in hardware or software for working […]

Audulus 4
iOS

Audulus 4: iOS and macOS modular synth is now FREE, iPhone support, and ditches subscriptions

December 11, 2025 Synth Anatomy 1

Audulus 4, the multi-touch iOS and macOS modular Synthesizer, is now FREE of charge and the latest update adds iPhone support and ditches subscriptions  Audulus is one of the longest-running modular Synthesizer apps on iOS, […]

Christophe Duquesne Loris Synth
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Christophe Duquesne Loris Synth, resynthesis software for EaganMatrix engine: new demo

April 25, 2025 Synth Anatomy 7

Christophe Duquesne Loris Synth is a new standalone software that brings additive synthesis/resynthesis to the EaganMatrix engine. In January, Christophe Duquesne of Haken Audio released Loris Synth, a new engine that brings expressive additive/resynthesis to […]

Ocean Swift Wavetable Creator
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Ocean Swift Wavetable Creator, custom wavetables for hardware and software synths

November 18, 2024 Synth Anatomy 4

Ocean Swift Wavetable Creator is a new macOS/Windows software for creating custom wavetables for hardware and software synthesizers. Wavetable synthesizers have been all the rage for a few years now. In hardware or software, integral […]

VCV+
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VCV+, new VCV Rack Pro subscription option and new branded modules

September 9, 2024 Synth Anatomy 10

At Knobcon 2024, Andrew Belt introduced VCV+, a new subscription payment option for its VCV Rack Pro plugin that gives you unlimited modules. No other software has generated as much excitement in recent years as […]

Creature From The ID
News

Creature From The ID, a vintage-inspired Krell Synthesizer by Giorgio Sancristoforo Windows version out now

July 30, 2024 Synth Anatomy 3

Creature From The ID is a new standalone experimental software, “Krell,” Synthesizer from Giorgio Sancristoforo that pays tribute to the work of Louis and Bebe Barron. Good news from Giorgio Sancristoforo. His latest fascinating software […]

Uwyn ShowMIDI
iOS

Uwyn ShowMIDI 1.0, visualizing your MIDI data stream has never been easier

July 11, 2024 Synth Anatomy 0

Uwyn has released ShowMIDI 1.0, a free multi-platform application that makes it easier than ever to visualize all your MIDI data stream. In 1981, Dave Smith (RIP) of Sequential invented the Musical Instrument Digital Interface […]

Native Instruments Pro-53 Cmajor
News

Native Instruments Pro-53 is back and playable in an open-source Cmajor port in your browser

March 14, 2024 Synth Anatomy 7

The long-discontinued Native Instruments Pro-53, a Prophet-5 emulation, is back and playable in an open-source Cmajor port in your browser. There are countless audio plugins that you can buy or download for free. However, they […]

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  • Baby Audio HyperWarp
    News

    Baby Audio HyperWarp: time-bending granular FX plugin for glitches and stutters

    Baby Audio HyperWarp is a new time-bending granular FX plugin for macOS and Windows designed for glitch, stutter, and warp effects. Earlier this year, Baby Audio released its first granular instrument—a Synthesizer called Grainferno that [...]

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    Cherry Audio Pentaphonic review: the super-rare plexiglas Gleeman polysynth reborn as a plugin

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  • Charles Vestal OMNI
    Hardware

    Charles Vestal OMNI: an Omnichord custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1

    Charles Vestal has published OMNI on GitHub, a custom firmware that turns the M-VAVE FM-1 Synthesizer into an Omnichord. Over the weekend, a wave of fascinating AI-created custom firmware was released for the compact M-VAVE [...]

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