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Polyfold from Manifest Audio lets you paint with polymetric patterns

A 1024-step, multilane polyphonic sequencer sounds overwhelming. But the latest Manifest Audio polymetric sequencer, Polyfold, offers a palette of various patterns and shapes that you can deploy across that vast canvas, easily and quickly. It opens up sequencing in Live 12+ Suite, free from the usual constraints. It’s a compositional playground, with full MIDI and OSC (!) support, for music and visuals alike.

Poly Flanger: a guide to Minimal Audio’s new tunable 8-voice FX

Minimal Audio’s Poly Flanger is a “musical” stereo flanger — with tuning options, scale quantization, three modes, and 1-8 voices, plus deep modulation and timbral options. “Flanger” is accurate, but almost unfair — this is a deep 8-voice comb resonator that you can set in key with your project or turn into a liquid, sound-transforming, even glitchy beast. Here’s a deep-dive guide to how to get the most out of it.

Peter Kirn - February 18, 2026

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Ableton Live 12.4 adds Link Audio, updated effects, more: hands-on details

Ableton Live 12.4 enters public beta today. New features include continued refinement of Live’s audio effects and the ability to merge stems and separate stems for just a selected portion of time. And there’s one unexpected twist: Ableton Link can now do audio. Here’s a deep dive into what’s new, based on beta builds leading […]