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1010music blackbox 2
Hardware

1010music blackbox 2: compact sampler workstation: firmware 1.1.0 with new features

October 11, 2026 Synth Anatomy 10

1010music blackbox 2 is available now: the next generation of the compact sampler workstation with twice the power, new hardware, and more – firmware 1.1.0 out now In the summer, 1010music began shipping the new […]

Wavea Flite 2.0
News

Wavea Flite 2.0: major feature-rich free update for the multi-engine Synthesizer, incl. MPE

September 9, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

Wavea Flite 2.0: a major, feature-rich free update for its multi-engine synth, with new oscillator power, an overhauled sequencer engine, FX, and more. Almost exactly two years ago, Wavea, Sharooz Raoofi’s company, released the Flite […]

Arthur Joly Recodrum-S
Drum Machines

Arthur Joly Recodrum-S: a hands-on hardware drum machine with vintage sounds

August 22, 2026 Synth Anatomy 1

Arthur Joly Recodrum-S is a new handmade hardware drum machine from Brazil with eight tracks of vintage drum sounds. In today’s modern world, we are spoiled for choice when it comes to drum machines. Off-the-shelf […]

Steinberg HALion 7
News

Steinberg HALion 7: version 7.5, the free 25th anniversary update, with MPE and 60% OFF sale

August 4, 2026 Synth Anatomy 9

Steinberg HALion 7: the new free update 7.5 for its 25th anniversary is out now, featuring deeper spectral synthesis, MPE support and more. Save 60% OFF for a limited time. Steinberg is celebrating the 30th […]

Torso Electronics S-4 2.2
Hardware

Torso Electronics S-4 sculpting sampler: new OS 2.2 makes the granular engine deeper

May 19, 2026 Synth Anatomy 37

Superbooth 2026: Torso Electronics showcased S-4 OS 2.2, an update for its sculpting sampler with a deeper granular engine, and more. The developers from Torso Electronics were also at Superbooth this year. They didn’t have […]

Groovesizer MYNAH
DIY

Groovesizer MYNAH: a compact polyphonic sampler for on-the-go

March 9, 2026 Synth Anatomy 2

Groovesizer MYNAH is a new compact 6-voice polyphonic sampler that lets you record, chop, and perform your sounds anywhere. It seems we’re currently experiencing the peak season for samplers. Many compact samplers have hit the […]

SynthFamDSP Samposium
iOS

SynthFamDSP Samposium: a multi-layer performance sampler for iOS

March 4, 2026 Synth Anatomy 0

SynthFamDSP Samposium is a new multi-layer performance sampler for iOS (iPhone/iPad), with AUv3 support coming soon. The market for powerful samplers on the iOS platform is still relatively small. My favorite sampler remains Samplr, although […]

Chompi Club Tempo firmware
Hardware

Chompi Club sampler: alternative Tempo firmware turns it into a new instrument: out now

March 3, 2026 Synth Anatomy 21

Chompi Club hardware sampler, part of Chase Bliss, is back in stock with an upcoming new Tempo firmware and a hardware update planned for 2026. At the end of 2025, Chase Bliss announced that the […]

Roland TR-1000
Drum Machines

Roland TR-1000 Rhythm Creator: the marriage of the analog and digital TR era with sampling

October 1, 2025 Synth Anatomy 20

The Roland TR-1000 Rhythm Creator marries the analog and digital TR era, plus sampling and more, in a new, modern, and hybrid drum machine. On September 25, Roland began releasing teasers for a new product […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 Pro Stems MPC
Grooveboxes

Akai Pro MPC STEMS now available for MPC hardware

July 11, 2024 Synth Anatomy 6

Akai Pro will supercharge its MPC hardware and software lineup with built-in stems separation technology in the sampler engine. Finally, the day is here. After the MPC Steam functionality was initially only available for the […]

Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave Sampling
Hardware

Superbooth 24: Groove Synthesis turns the 3rd Wave Synthesizer into a sampler

May 14, 2024 Synth Anatomy 2

Superbooth 24: Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave, the mighty multi-timbral wavetable Synthesizer, now supports sampling.  The Superbooth starts this Thursday and I can already tease you so much: there will be a firework again with the […]

teenage engineering TX-6 firmware 1.2.12
Audio & MIDI

teenage engineering TX-6 1.2.12, new firmware turns it a mini-size sampler and looper

April 18, 2024 Synth Anatomy 1

Teenage Engineering has released firmware 1.2.12 for its mixer TX-6, turning it into a mini-size sampler and looper. When Teenage Engineering presented their mini mixer TX-6 at Superbooth 2022, this release caused a lot of […]

Sonicware Liven Lofi-6
Hardware

Sonicware LIVEN Lofi-6, hardware sampler with more retro character, and new Lofi-12 firmware 2.1

August 9, 2023 Synth Anatomy 2

Sonicware LIVEN Lofi-6 is a special edition of the Lofi-12 hardware sampler with added retro character and new Lofi-12 firmware 2.1.  At the end of 2022, Sonicware released the LIVEN Lofi-12, a hardware sampler/groovebox with […]

Sonicware SMPLTREK 2.0
Grooveboxes

Sonicware SMPLTREK 2.0, new firmware with quick sampling, and more

April 26, 2023 Synth Anatomy 1

Sonicware has published the firmware 2.0 for its SMPLTREK hardware sampling groovebox with various new features, improvements, and bugfixes. More than a year ago the Kickstarter campaign for Sonicware’s new SMPLTREK was launched. The sampler […]

Deals

US-Deal: Korg Volcavember, buy two Volcas, get one for FREE

November 15, 2022 Synth Anatomy 1

Korg US has launched the Volcavember event where you get one Volca for FREE when you buy two Volcas throughout November 2022.  It’s Black Friday month and the time for the good has begun. There […]

1010music razzmatazz
Drum Machines

1010music nanobox razzmatazz, tiny groovebox with FM synth and sampling

October 10, 2022 Synth Anatomy 1

1010music expands its tiny nanobox lineup with the razzmatazz, a new groovebox with FM synthesis and sampling.  Last January, US-based company 1010music unveiled the new Nanobox lineup. Portable electronic music instruments with lots of functionality. […]

Sonicware SmplTrek
News

Sonicware SmplTrek, a new portable, affordable sampler now on Kickstarter

March 31, 2022 Synth Anatomy 4

Sonicware SmplTrek is a new neat portable, feature-rich sampler for on the go for little money, now on Kickstarter starting at $299 USD. There are tons of analog and digital synthesizers on the market. I […]

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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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