Chaotic vocals, polyrhythmic grooves — meet the every something plugins

Imagine crossing vocal synthesis with a rungler, vocal circuits entangling with each other like they’re “speaking in tongues.” Or enveloped grooves that bend and twist with liquid controls, shaped with tuplets and polymeters. Creator Jelle Akkerman is launching every something plug-ins today with two new tools, Glosso and Artikulation. Here’s your guide to both.

The joy of Splines, a module that can make anything from curves

It’s an oscillator, a step sequencer, a modulation and envelope source, a quantizer (with custom tunings) — even a scope, thanks to its interactive, animated visual interface. Thorn Audio’s new Eurorack module can make anything from elegant, precise curves. It’s more than just another do-everything module. Now you’re playing with Splines.

Peter Kirn - May 26, 2026

Envion: a free, open, algorithmic drum composition environment in Pd

It all starts with the envelope, so that even a few milliseconds of sound can generate “thousands of sonic trajectories.” Built entirely in the free, open-source Pure Data, Envion is a deep compositional playground. You can think of it like an algorithmic drum machine. Emiliano Pennisi shares his creation with us.

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2025

Inertia completes an elegant trio of dynamic-shaping tools from Sinevibes

Peter Kirn - August 22, 2025

Close-up, angled view of Envy Machine, showing jacks, push-button selectors, LED indicators for modes, and tall, sleek encoders.

Envy Machine, 4 channels of envelopes, LFOs, randomness, knob recording

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2024

Bastl’s new Neo Trinity module: 6-channel modulation with recording

Peter Kirn - January 29, 2024

_Efx MOTIONS: Arturia’s new moving, modulating multi-effects plug-in

Peter Kirn - October 17, 2023

Intellijel Tangrams takes the dual ADSR module concept – and pluses everything

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2023

Bitwig Studio 5 is all about modulation, curves, and envelope shapes; now in beta

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2023