Full Bucket Music will soon release FB3, a free software emulation of the Kawai K3 hybrid synthesizer from 1986. I first saw the news on Synth Anatomy, run by my good friend Tom, and the first proper look comes from Espen Kraft’s video based on a beta version of the plugin. FB3 is not publicly…
DJCU2, a major update to the much-loved Mac-only DJ library conversion utility DJCU, is now in public beta. One big new trick is that it can carry Algoriddim Djay Pro’s fluid beatgrids into other DJ apps as part of converting your library across. DJCU and now DJCU2 are designed to move an entire library from…
inMusic Brands has donated 4,489 items from Bob Moog’s personal office files to the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, covering his final years at Moog Music and including hardware prototypes, handwritten engineering notes, and personal correspondence with some of electronic music’s most significant figures. The collection includes more than 500 schematics and 700 letters, alongside hundreds…
Dominus Mundi Audio has announced the release of Stereoid, a new plugin engineered for precision mixing and mastering. Stereoid is designed to deliver significant stereo expansion while maintaining precise phase coherence across the frequency spectrum. The Concept When expanding the stereo image of a mix, traditional wideners can sometimes cause the low-end to lose punch…
Matari Audio has updated BUFFR, a cross-platform retrospective audio and MIDI recorder designed to recover performances beyond the currently armed DAW track, to v0.5.81. BUFFR continuously captures the computer’s System Audio and can open a hardware MIDI controller directly through Global MIDI. It does not need to sit on the track being played, and no…
Quantastical Sound has released version 2.3 of STRÄNG, a subtractive synthesizer built around a single idea: real-time convolution running inside the voice itself. STRÄNG takes the bones of a classic subtractive synth, one core oscillator with its helpers and filters that bite, and gives it a physical body. Every note resonates through a short, tonal…
Clack.DIGITAL has released new versions of A-SID, Amp Squeezer, and Uè Uè, introducing AUv2 support and compatibility bugfixes. They are free to download for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and also support VST3 and LV2. Amp Squeezer and Uè Uè are also available on the Darkglass Anagram Marketplace. Read More Read the full story
Tunary Instruments has released SILT, a generative tape-loop instrument for macOS and Windows. Four short melodic loops of different lengths run through a warm tape machine and slowly drift out of phase with each other, so the music writes itself from the phasing and does not repeat for minutes. The voice is a soft, dark…