This is a serious Frankenstein’s monster: a DIY synth made of a 1981 Casio keyboard, an AM radio, stompboxes, and more – and held together with glue and tape.

Audio Damage brings their new desktop power granular synth Quanta to iOS. Quanta is also on sale until the 1st of September at just $7.99.

FabFilter brings their high end Pro-Q 2 24 band EQ to iOS as an AUv3 so that you can use it in the audio unit host of your choice

iBassist is a virtual bass player for your iPad that almost certainly cheaper than keeping a bass player on retainer. iBassist sends MIDI chord progressions so it’s going to be useful for jamming and working out tracks

Yes, nests of patch cords and racks of modules will make noodle-y noise for chin scratching. It can also make pounding techno – and we’re going inside some of the sonic brains who’ve mastered that.

The Roland Go:Mixer Pro packs a complete mixer into a handheld device, and it interfaces with your iPhone, Android phone – or anything else. We got one of the first units to test.

The latest version of experimental field recording app FieldScaper brings a host of new features including a step sequencer per oscillator and parametric equalisation for each oscillator as well. Version 2.0 is really going to expand the possibilities for warping your audio

Pacemaker (AI DJ app) brings us some cool new collaboration possibilities to their app allowing user to co-create mixtapes and publish them to the Pacemaker community

Can electronic music tell a story about who we are? Debashis Sinha talks about his LP for Establishment, The White Dog, and how everything from Toronto noodle bowls to Bengali field recordings got involved.

If you’ve been waiting for a revision of Apple’s MacBook Pro, it’s here. And Apple gives its users some significantly improved CPU performance, among other features. That’s not making Mac buying decisions much easier, though.