Asparion spins its modular D700 control surface into a 19-inch rackmount version: 16 high-resolution 100mm motorized faders, 17 RGB encoders, 76 LED buttons and a rare openness to the OSC and MQTT protocols. Available at around $2,299.
ASM has finalized the Sequencer Entropy Deviation engine on the Leviasynth. Firmware 1.2 turns the 16-voice, 8-operator FM flagship’s sequencer into a variation machine — the kind of long-haul software support that built the Hydrasynth’s reputation.
Teenage Engineering is rolling out OS 2.5 for its EP-133 K.O. II sampler as a…
Three years after its first tease, the Behringer CS Mini is back — this time surfacing in the Synthtribe software, a sign a launch is nearing. A three-voice analog synth inspired by the legendary Yamaha CS-80, in a Volca-sized box, for a promised hundred dollars or so.
Xaoc Devices turns two Superbooth prototypes into shipping reality. The Skopje is a dual quantizer of rare precision, out now for around $419, while the Budapeszt is a stereo spectral processor that thrives on the interference between its filters. Two opposites, cut from the same demanding cloth.
At 135 grams, the MAT 16X8 squeezes sixteen inputs and eight outputs into a box the size of a phone. USB bus-powered, class-compliant on iPad, Android and Linux, with DC-coupled outputs for CV, it targets the mobile electronic rig. A rare proposition.
The Acustica Mystic 2 put the tube console channel back in the spotlight with its neural modeling. Around the same idea (preamp, EQ and dynamics bundled to lay down a color), here are eight software channel strips, from big-console emulations to free ones, with an honest take on which truly do the same job.
With Mix Unlock, Waves moves source separation from an offline process to a real-time tool…
Erica Synths and Dutch developer 112dB present the Razornator, a desktop effect unlike anything else…
Isla Electronics’ Caladan is finally real: the multitimbral hybrid synth with hot-swappable voice cards is heading into production for a Summer 2026 launch. One chassis, eight parts, and a rack of analogue and digital engines you swap like cartridges.