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Jam, color, and geometry — discover Perplex On’s AV synesthesia bliss

Dive deep into these explosions of sound, light, and shape from Munich-based Perplex On, as the musical act pairs compact instruments with visuals made in Lottie and Imaginando’s VS – Visual Synthesizer. Dazzle at these eye-popping, brain-tickling audiovisual explorations. Warning: contains flashing lights and rapidly changing patterns. As perfectly structured as these are, they also […]

Baby Audio’s Tekno drum machine gets a sequencer and iOS AUv3 version

Tekno from Baby Audio was easily one of my favorite plug-ins of last year — it’s a rich, “bend”-able, brutal box with the feeling of hardware drum synthesis. And now it gets a step sequencer, plus a ton of tweaks you might have missed in the first release. And one more thing: iOS users, there’s a mobile version with AUv3 version.

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2026

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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.