Sinevibes Cache has turned into a buffer-mangling, playable breaks machine

Oh, Cache is good as a Mac/Windows/Linux effect — flip, repeat, stretch, robotize, and generally go buffer-mad. But you expected that from a Sinevibes plug-in. The joy here is that now you can really play. Connect a MIDI keyboard, and Cache is a breaks-friendly, sound transmorgrifying effect instrument.

Motherly, sequencer percussion synth, is pure rhythmic happiness

Moog’s DFAM has become almost a genre of instrument — like the Minimoog architecture or original Moog modular. Look no further than this delight from Rainbow Circuit. On the surface, it looks like another model of the percussion synth (Mom!). But it sounds like nothing else, and if you’re looking for more synthesized, sequenced percussion to infuse a smile into your day, Motherly is like uncut dopamine.

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2025

Hainbach and AudioThing made the HP Word Generator into sonic software

The Hewlett-Packard Word Generator 8006A has become an unintentional legend of sound lovers, transforming this obscure lab equipment into a kind of instrument. So you knew that a Hainbach/AudioThing collab to produce a software version was inevitable. B00GA is available now as a macOS, Windows, or Linux plug-in, or an iOS/iPadOS AUv3 plug-in or app.

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2025

Tim Exile’s Finalist mixes and masters creatively, colorfully — with no AI

Peter Kirn - October 14, 2025

Daedelus and Takuma Matsui talk Tinge, a painterly color wheel arpeggiator

Peter Kirn - September 13, 2025

Tekno, new bendable drum machine synth: we’ve got free patterns and kits

Peter Kirn - September 2, 2025

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

Peter Kirn - August 22, 2025

AirWindows’ free PointyDeluxe is dangerous, unstable, and wonderful

Peter Kirn - July 29, 2025

Far beyond the Lounge, with Lounge Lizard EP-5’s new physical modeling

Peter Kirn - June 25, 2025

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