Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Make Noise and Tom Erbe have made a mighty morphing spatial Plexiphon
Soundhack creations endure years and decades, and now we get a new one. Think mighty morphing modeless modulation. Plexiphon is neither reverb or echo. It’s both, simultaneously, for spatial textural sounds you can shift fluidly. And in my quest to avoid being consumed by a sea of modules, this one just rose way up the list.
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MSteppySnap for Ableton Live makes modulation playable, maleable
In a way, it’s funny how complicated we make modulation. We wind up creating layers of envelopes and free-running oscillations just to get what we want. Tomavatars’ MSteppySnap, once you grok its approach, is nothing like that. This is steppy snappy whooshy glorgy modulation you can play, capture, and trigger intuitively.
Peter Kirn - April 24, 2026
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Absynth 6.1: Audio modulator, LFO retrigger, sound content, more
If you need an excuse to suit up for an extravehicular activity in the cosmos of sound, Absynth is back again. Native Instruments quietly dropped Absynth 6.1, with oft-requested LFO retrigger and undo/redo, plus a surprise: a new audio modulator.
Peter Kirn - April 17, 2026
Music tech Software Tech
Intellijel made Swells a playable reverb with faders, rise, fall, ebb, and flow
Peter Kirn - April 14, 2026
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Electro-Harmonix pedal classics are now available in plug-in form
Peter Kirn - March 31, 2026
Music tech Software Tech
The developer of Tweakbench wants to remake the DAW without linear time
Peter Kirn - March 4, 2026
Music tech Software Tech
Ableton Live 12.4 adds Link Audio, updated effects, more: hands-on details
Peter Kirn - February 10, 2026
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