Let’s turn that synth into a singing robot, DerVoco brings vintage vocoder emulation to iOS using analog modelled components including filters, envelope followers and companders to create a warm vintage sound instead of digital techniques like FFT

One way to keep laptops from disappearing from DJ setups: let more laptops come to the party. Pioneer’s new US$999 flagship controller for Serato does just that, with more connections and two independent USB audio interfaces.

Everyone’s talking these days it seems about new users and finding an entry way into production. But Spitfire’s take is pretty irresistible: give you some essential sounds you can use anywhere, then charge you … nothing.

Roli brings classic Indian instruments to their Noise app through a joint project with A. R. Rahman and his KM Music Conservatory

Free Delay Modulator AUv3 Anyone? DLYM is for you then. It’s brought to us by the people who make DRC Poly Synth, and also LK, a controller for Ableton Live

The free and open VCV Rack software modular platform already is full of a rich selection of open source modules. Now, Rack users get first access to the newest Mutable Instruments modules – and your $20 even goes to charity.

Using code for live music has gone from geeky fringe to underground revolution, offering a fresh approach to music and pattern, even for first-time coders. Alex McLean is one of the people at the center of this medium’s growth.

Imagine starting with a painstaking emulation of the lofi sound of instruments like Yamaha’s SHS-10 keytar – but then modulating those quirks in powerful ways. Now you’re getting the mission of the new plug-in from Plogue – PortaFM.

Harmonizr brings up to 3 voices of automated harmony to an AUv3 host near you and what’s more it also can be MIDI controlled too

From Venezuela to Europe, DJ/producer Hyperaktivist’s passion for music has been about connecting people as it has about connecting music. She talks to us about that process of community building, even in the face of resistance – and shares hours of music mixed with Mohajer at her side.