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Your Eurorack rig is now another deck: Pamela’s Disco does PRO-DJ LINK
Pam’s back in town, and she’s learned a new language. ALM/Busy Circuits’ “Pamela’s Disco” sports an Ethernet jack for PRO DJ-LINK — that’s the sync format found on CDJs and other Pioneer DJ/AlphaTheta equipment and compatible gear. You read that right: now your modular has a sync button.
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ADPTR Utopia: what makes this spectral reverb one of the best effects of 2025
Move over, recycled ideas and emulations: it’s been a year of reimagining entire effects categories. And ADPTR Audio’s Utopia stands out in a 2025 class of reverbs that are more than just reverbs. Here’s a look at why it’s an effect I can’t put down, why it’s so much fun to tweak, and how the developers thought about it.
Peter Kirn - December 3, 2025
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Airwindows VerbThic, VerbTiny let you go even more rabid for reverb, for free
Chris Johnson, aka Airwindows, continues to share his love for DSP with free tools, open source code, and elaborate discussions of the joy of crafting reverbs. So just in case you don’t feel blessed enough with free effects after SuperMassive’s new Sirius reverb/delay, here’s the tiny and the thick in all-new Airwindows editions. And they’ll even run in VCV Rack or on a Raspberry Pi.
Peter Kirn - December 3, 2025
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Lethelium, a 24-string instrument fashioned from a bicycle wheel
Peter Kirn - December 2, 2025
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The best music making software and plug-in deals right now
Peter Kirn - December 1, 2025
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The best (real) deals on gear right now, synths to modules, for Cyber Week
Peter Kirn - November 29, 2025
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Black Friday: pimp my Live with the best add-ons
Peter Kirn - November 28, 2025
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Super Massive 5 adds Sirius echo/reverb to the best free plugin in the galaxy
Peter Kirn - November 28, 2025
Music tech Reviews Software Tech
Waldorf’s Protein: soul of Microwave in an 8-voice wavetable synth, €329
Peter Kirn - November 27, 2025
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