Baby Audio’s Tekno drum machine gets a sequencer and iOS AUv3 version

Tekno from Baby Audio was easily one of my favorite plug-ins of last year — it’s a rich, “bend”-able, brutal box with the feeling of hardware drum synthesis. And now it gets a step sequencer, plus a ton of tweaks you might have missed in the first release. And one more thing: iOS users, there’s a mobile version with AUv3 version.

Hainbach and AudioThing made the HP Word Generator into sonic software

The Hewlett-Packard Word Generator 8006A has become an unintentional legend of sound lovers, transforming this obscure lab equipment into a kind of instrument. So you knew that a Hainbach/AudioThing collab to produce a software version was inevitable. B00GA is available now as a macOS, Windows, or Linux plug-in, or an iOS/iPadOS AUv3 plug-in or app.

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2025

Organize that mess of projects into one place, free, with SessionDock

I think I’ve never read a product pitch that resonated quite like this one: “It’s built for people like me who juggle Logic, Ableton, and endless folders full of half-finished tracks.” Oh, uh — that. Yes, SessionDock is an app for organizing all your projects, built for macOS and iOS. And you can use the […]

Peter Kirn - November 4, 2025

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