Elastic OSC, Plaits-derived poly, is now a macOS and Windows plug-in, too

Elastic OSC expands on Émilie Gillet’s 24 original open-source Plaits oscillator models, adding 8-voice polyphony, expression (MPE), a modulation engine, and Elastic effects. And if that sounds like something you wish you had in your computer DAW and not just Android and iOS, now you’re in luck.

NEL Incline gets an Easter update with improved display, output quality — and echo

Your mission to investigate sonic anomalies could use a holiday boost. NeverEngine Labs’ Incline gets a significant update today, festively labeled as an “Easter egg.” Now you get internal echo in playback, high-fidelity audio output options and tweaks, and proper zoom.

Peter Kirn - April 5, 2026

Incline, “toposonic corpus explorer,” transforms granular synthesis

Imagine granular synthesis, taken in entirely different dimensions. That’s Incline — Cristian Vogel’s cross-bred mixture of microsound and machine learning segmentation. It explodes sounds into a highly configurable topography, then applies precise envelopes, with unique rhythmic and textural results. Here’s how to explore those strange new worlds.

Peter Kirn - March 30, 2026

Free experimental and ambient bank for Grainferno, plus sound design tips

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2026

Find whole worlds inside samples: Baby Audio Grainferno deep dive

Peter Kirn - March 11, 2026

Fractiv wants to make granular sound easier to shape, sculpt, and play

Peter Kirn - January 16, 2026

JW-Modules free Grains, Buffer are must-downloads for VCV Rack

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2026

Torso S-4’s 2.0 OS makes it the performance sampler it wanted to be

Peter Kirn - June 18, 2025

Elastic OSC is a Mutable Instruments-based polysynth voice for iOS: tested

Peter Kirn - May 5, 2025