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.

Sinevibes Cache 1.1 on NTS-3 kaoss pad is killer; Artemiy shows us why

Sinevibes’ creations are all gems running on the ultra-compact, ultra-economical KORG NTS-3 kaoss pad (via logue SDK). But the Cache update is an especially big deal, with new reverse, rewind, and scratch modes. Creator Artemiy Pavlov showed us just how. Cache was designed specifically for the NTS-3, so the whole effect and how you interact […]

Peter Kirn - May 15, 2025

Dirty, punchy, free: this plug-in rendition of the Korg Poly-61 is raw and perfect

The 1982 Poly-61 was a grimy, cheap, raw-sounding quintessential 80s synth. It doesn’t have any of the star power of other Korg instruments or rivals from Roland and Sequential. So instead of a commercial remake, what we get is free. But it’s fantastic. It’s way better than you’d expect from a free plug-in. Meet the Full Bucket Music FURY-68.

Peter Kirn - May 6, 2025

Whatever the Weather II: Loraine James talks about the alias and the album

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2025

Sinevibes’ “digital-analog” buffer delay Integer is now on KORG hardware

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2025

KORG’s adorable Sanrio tuners and other stuff you can only get in Japan

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2025

KORG multi/poly native is as satisfying as a desktop plug-in as it in hardware

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2025

RIP Seiki Kato, KORG President lead 80s product innovations, KORG USA

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2025

KORG multi/poly – a modeled mono/poly that’s secretly a KAOSS-filled studio

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2024

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