#synth

I stumbled on this one yesterday and I have not stopped thinking about it. Expetri is a synth that lives in a petri dish. Instead of a wall of knobs, you get living sound cells that drift around, split

If you have ever wanted a proper old school sampler without paying for one, this is the one to grab. TX16Wx from CWITEC is a free software sampler modelled on the classic hardware samplers, with Yamaha's

I grabbed BloopMachine the day it dropped and I have been poking at it ever since. Fingerlab built a little monophonic wavetable synth with a resonant filter that takes its cue from the TB-303, then pushes

If you love that woozy early electronic sound, this one is a treat. Bucket Pops from Full Bucket Music recreates the Korg Mini Pops-7, a little analog rhythm machine from the late 1960s that ended up all

Okay, this one landed yesterday and it is Warsaw Wave's first synth, after three years of work. Revolt Patchable Synth puts everything on one page and then lets you rearrange it. You pick your panels,

If you have ever wanted a piece of late 70s Korg polyphonic weirdness without tracking down a rare and very expensive vintage synth, FB-3200 by Full Bucket Music is a great free grab. The original Korg

Okay, this one got my attention for a weird reason. Genator from Sound Overflow does not ask you to build a patch knob by knob. You describe the sound you want by picking a family, an ambience, a mood

If you love the sound of a Roland TR-909 but you do not have a few thousand bucks lying around for the real thing, DR.89 by Sender Spike is a seriously fun freebie to grab. The 909 is the drum machine

So Pittsburgh Modular finally went software, and they did not mess around. The Microvolt 3901 is a component level emulation of their old Microvolt 3900 semi-modular, except it is bigger, meaner, and fully

Okay, Massive is back, and this one actually feels like a step forward instead of a fresh coat of paint. Massive XL from Native Instruments landed yesterday, and it builds on Massive X with a bunch of

Okay, this one got my attention fast. ASYX from Isla Electronics is a software recreation of the Alesis Andromeda A6, and if you have ever priced a working Andromeda on the used market, you know why a

I have been messing around with Vuoksi from Timbre Space, and it is a different kind of beast. It is an additive synth, which means you are not starting from a saw wave and filtering it down. You are building

I have a soft spot for synths that make you work for it, and Matriq-Six is exactly that kind of machine. Full Bucket Music just dropped this one as a free prototype, and it simulates the Oberheim Matrix

So discoDSP just dropped TED-8, and it is one of those releases that made me stop what I was doing and actually read the whole product page. It is a plugin version of the Oberheim TEO-5, but not the usual

SquelchGlide: a free acid box that squelches like it means it You know the sound I am chasing. That greasy resonant bassline that sits under everything and makes the kick feel twice as heavy. SquelchGlide

UJAM just dropped a free synth for spooky season and it is a one-trick monster in the best way. DETUNICORN does exactly one thing: colossal, detuned hypersaw stabs, chords, and leads. No preset browser,

Open hardware synth inside 🔥🔧

So Blinksonic just dropped their first instrument and it is absolutely my kind of mess. HOLODRIFT is a granular sampler bolted onto a real-time spectral resynthesis engine. Feed it a field recording, a

This is my newest DIY FM synth 🔥🪛 Its plugged to the Monotron delay 🎹 FUN fun fun ⚡

Someone finally built a whole instrument around a phase-locked loop, and my first thought was: of course. A PLL is a radio control circuit whose whole job is to grab onto a signal and not let go. Phaseburn