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This month, Absynth got two updates that refine its UI and editing navigation, freeing you up to shape your sound.

The exquisite collaboration of Lawrence Sammour, Sary Moussa, and Abed Kobeissy, Bethlehem, is released this month.

GForce has updated their site, branding, and pricing (now with both lifetime licenses and subscription options).

Straight outta Katowice, our friends at D16 Audio Group are celebrating 20 years with an all-new stereo delay: Echolite.

Roland has one more announcement -- a 1.5 update for its flagship TR-1000 drum machine.

It's the size of a standard guitar pedal.

It's not just some extra keys or minor feature tweaks.

The kawaii look of the mini Rolands in the Boutique series has returned.

20-year-old Palestinian producer Abed Eyad is making beats from the rubble, surviving amidst genocide.

The myth of Drexciya is getting its moment at the Toronto Biennial, as retold by Underground Resistance.

teenage engineering, the company that made news for slipping in an interview that it isn’t making new synths (maybe), might also make news for making its synths do new things.

No, we do not all want to be reduced to brains in a jar.

Okay, class: today's reading includes a short but inspiring passage by Estevan Carlos Benson, who has lately been suggesting we treat our musical listening biome in the same way that we do our gut.

Cycling '74 has a surprisingly packed Max 9.2 update out now, with improvements and additions for Jitter, the Web, V8 (JavaScript), buffers, video on Windows, Gen, and the Ableton abl collection.

If you feel at sea in a starless night, Ancient Future might summon charts from the ancestors, fragmented through samples and voltages, a hauntology of modular deconstruction.

What do you do when software is feeling a little, well, disposable?

Beads, the granular "texture synthesizer" that was Emilie Gillet's follow-up to the legendary Clouds, is now fully open source.

The patterning on butterfly wings is constructed of tiny blade-like scales (lamellar), with color structured into complex messaging and variation.

The granular engine in Baby Audio's HyperWarp can bend time along graphical paths you create with curved and stepped drawing tools.

It's time to dig into the archives.

Madrona Labs' patchable West Coast synth is one of the most playable, exploration-friendly, unique instruments around -- a piece of software to last.

Technology keeps asking us to speed up.

The Novation Launchpad grid has its original lineage in Ableton Live integration.

Far from the cold, hard edges and cookie-cutter music, Anastasia Kristensen is exploring anthropomorphic sound -- and digging up "weird, small nests" of music.

It's time to resurrect 1Uesday, because the single-height 1U Eurorack format is heating up again.

We're awash with emulations at the moment, but this one is on another level.

Oliver Torr is disrupting your sound waves, mangling your Ableton Live tempo (alongside the awesome duo MIRA新伝統), and assembling drum kits out of AI-surfed YouTube chaos.

A DECtalk Express stands in for Monty Python actor Michael Palin, with an Intex Talker (Votrax SC-01A) voicing the role of John Cleese.

It's a painful year for techno's originators and Detroit.

Take a break from the surveillance nightmare around us for computer vision that's local, not online, and doing creative, artistic things, instead.

Music gearmaker Elektron last week announced it would not allow sharing hacks and modifications for its devices on its official Elektronauts forum or social media channels.

New sound technologies?