Paulee Alex Bow makes songs from transphobic, ableist hate mail

It’s time for a very special episode of Magical Synth Adventures. Armed with some rare and wonderful grooveboxes, host, artist, and music tech journalist Paulee Alex Bow turns their hate mail into songs – and surprise, you get some bangers.

Free Roland SH-4d 2.0 update: new oscillator models, pattern chaining

Amidst the flurry of gear news last week, Roland quietly made their SH-4D synth newer, for free. You get two new oscillator models, pattern chaining, new system-level effects routing, off-grid sub-step entry, and more. Here’s what’s new:

Peter Kirn - May 12, 2025

MC-101/707 Zen-Core get the comprehensive editor Roland forgot

Devotees of the new Roland MC boxes said it all along: these boxes are deep — if you’re willing to dive in. Developer Benedetto Schiavone has done what Roland didn’t and created a comprehensive editor for everything the MC-101 and MC-707 can do, hacking into the hidden features of the MCs.

Peter Kirn - September 9, 2024

New MPC One+ standalone: wireless and more storage, $699 – and runs AIR’s new Juno plugin

Peter Kirn - May 30, 2023

Roland SP-404MKII v3.0 firmware drops – here’s why we’re excited about it

David Abravanel - March 10, 2023

Sample machines in Elektron Digitakt 1.50: Repitch, Werp, Slice, Oneshot

Peter Kirn - March 1, 2023

Novation Circuit Tracks update follows Circuit Rhythm – here’s what to know

Peter Kirn - December 23, 2022

Elektron’s Song Mode is already making ambient music to chill out to; OS updates at a glance

Peter Kirn - October 4, 2022

Inside the Reese’s Puffs cereal beatboxes – and yeah, they made real instruments

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2021

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