Sure, you might know Mutable Instruments’ terrific Eurorack modules are open and hackable – but do you know where to start? Our friend Michael Forrest walks you through it all in a friendly video.

Get dance-y. Get academic. Discover cannibalistic vocal technique, pre-colonial archaeology (with or without AI), mixes, reading, virtual raves – all of it radical. Time for a music dump from a fresh Latin American project.

I’m not sure which is better, musically slapping your synth, or the comments as Sequential reveals this demo of … smacking the spring reverb tank. Watch:

This is some Kodachrome level color voodoo – color grading and shot matching powered by machine-learning. And it comes from a collaboration with some friends of ours from the artist and live visual side, so it’s doubly worth mentioning.

It’s a wonder we ever produced music without it. But kids today are lucky – they can get a feature-packed KONTAKT instrument based on a fruit-shaped shaker. It appears to be free through today only, so hurry.

SunVox 1.9.6 is here, with a pitch detection module, envelope generator, new harmonics features, an AUv3 on iOS, and lots more. It’s a full modular synth and creation environment as donationware or a few dollars on mobile. And it runs on almost everything. So yeah – you can afford it.

It’s the little things sometimes. Adjust the gain of Clips from the Arrangement, right on the timeline, with this €3 Max for Live add-on for Live 10 and later.

Oh sure, you think it’s impressive when you upload a vinyl-only DJ set. But real analog purists run their whole operating system on analog.

Sometimes wonderful things show up in my inbox – this tune comes from one of our MeeBlip users.

From Lyon’s Grame center, today there’s a free online workshop on patching and coding your own synths, including working with tools like the Faust DSP environment (even on the Web), VCV Rack, Daisy Eurorack, Arduino, Teensy, and more.