Blackbox 2.0 is here for 1010music’s excellent sampler – the stable build

Tap tempo? Advanced granular controls? Deep delay? 4-band parametric EQ? All the deep features crammed into the beautifully compact Blackbox sampler features have now moved from beta to stable, and 1.9 to 2.0. Here’s a look.

Rymdigare for iOS combines FX in a fanciful UI and makes everything fuzzy and wonderful

There’s a gently pastel-colored hand-drawn interface, a backstory involving extraplanetary mining. It’s a reverb, a degrader and multi-effect, but also a drone maker. But whatever it is, Rymdigare transports everything you do to a warm, happy place. It’s like drizzling stuff with warm chocolate.

Peter Kirn - October 4, 2021

Elektron Digitakt 1.30 adds tons of new sound features – guide to everything you can do

Elektron has been busy lately – a massive 1.30 OS update for Digitakt brings external audio mixing/sidechaining, a second LFO, filter features, workflow improvements, and more. Here’s a look:

Peter Kirn - June 16, 2021

Deep in Serum: six sound tricks to explore just by double-clicking, with maestro Francis Preve

Francis Preve - January 15, 2021

Polyend puts presets in your modular – plus run on a battery, anywhere

Peter Kirn - May 13, 2019

The Stylophone goes totally luxe with the GEN R-8

Peter Kirn - January 16, 2019

Dreadbox Hypnosis: teaser for a dreamy synthwave effects box

Peter Kirn - December 21, 2018

Tracktion 7: powerful, free audio production tool (Mac, Windows, Linux)

Peter Kirn - August 13, 2018

Elektron’s Analog Heat is a new distortion, filter, computer accessory

Peter Kirn - September 22, 2016

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