IK’s model of the Neve 1081 console is free this month, plus free EQ and metering

IK Multimedia are giving away a nice British channel strip model in January. It’s part of a larger download, but you get some free metering and extra EQ in the deal even if you pay nothing at all.

Celebrate your Blue Monday with the choir sound from New Order – and Kraftwerk’s Orchestron

Expect there are quite a few blue Blue Mondays in the house, so this is topical – our friend Alex Theakston dives down a rabbit hole straight to Kraftwerk’s very own Vako Orchestron.

Peter Kirn - January 17, 2022

The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk

Prince was way ahead of non-fungible tokens – with a symbol that was intended to make life a pain-in-the-a** for the record label. (Non-f***able totem?) And now Anil Dash and Limor Fried/Adafruit have brought back that image from a floppy.

Peter Kirn - November 30, 2021

1978’s synthesis-stuffed ARP Quadra gets a plug-in; here’s Nadia Struiwigh to show it to us

Peter Kirn - November 24, 2021

Plogue has made a chip-perfect emulation of the Yamaha FM synth line

Peter Kirn - September 22, 2021

Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2021

DinSync.info RE-808 is a 1:1 replica so authentic, it’ll run the original OS

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2021

Step back in time and watch a full Coil live set from 2002 at the Barbican

Peter Kirn - July 21, 2021

Find zen-like calm with these perfect miniature synthesizer videos

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2021

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