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Sandbender: FM that finally wants to be played

Sandbender: FM that finally wants to be played

FM synths have always had the same problem. Everybody loves the sound and nobody wants to program the thing, so most of the FM you have ever heard was a factory preset nobody dared to touch. Audio Damage

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horrorweapon

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606 Koncept: Free Roland TR-606 Drum Machine for Your DAW

606 Koncept: Free Roland TR-606 Drum Machine for Your DAW

606 Koncept: Free Roland TR-606 Drum Machine for Your DAW If you love that dry, snappy, early 80s drum machine sound, here is a free one worth grabbing. 606 Koncept by SampleScience is a tribute to the

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horrorweapon

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Green Oak Crystal 2.6: a free semi-modular classic, rebuilt for 2026

Green Oak Crystal 2.6: a free semi-modular classic, rebuilt for 2026

I have a soft spot for synths that have been around long enough to earn their quirks, and Crystal is one of them. Green Oak just shipped version 2.6, and it finally brings this free semi-modular beast

horrorweapon

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Free Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus Emulator: The 90s Sampler Running Its Real OS in Your DAW

Free Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus Emulator: The 90s Sampler Running Its Real OS in Your DAW

Here is a wild one for the sampler heads. The Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus came out in 1991 and it was the sampler a whole generation of hip hop and electronic producers cut their teeth on. 16-bit sampling, a gritty

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Black And White

13d

The Bird and the Hat. Monomad Challenge.

The Bird and the Hat. Monomad Challenge.

Amsterdam Noord in the mist.

horrorweapon

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CERNION: a wavetable synth that wants to move

CERNION: a wavetable synth that wants to move

A brand new wavetable synth landed yesterday and I have been poking at it all morning. CERNION comes from quietformat, a new name to me, and it is the kind of instrument that rewards you for getting your

horrorweapon

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Free VST: Surrealistic MG-1 Plus, the Radio Shack Moog for zero dollars

Free VST: Surrealistic MG-1 Plus, the Radio Shack Moog for zero dollars

Here is a fun one. Back in the early 80s you could walk into a Radio Shack and walk out with a real Moog synth. The Realistic MG-1, also sold as the Concertmate MG-1, was built by Moog Music and sold through

horrorweapon

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Currents & Nostalgia: a classic synth from a parallel timeline

Currents & Nostalgia: a classic synth from a parallel timeline

Rasmus Nyåker over at Unusable Engineering just dropped a new one today, and it might be my favorite kind of synth: the kind that sounds like it fell out of a timeline where the DX7 never happened and

horrorweapon

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PG-8X: the free Roland JX-8P in your DAW

PG-8X: the free Roland JX-8P in your DAW

Tonight is a synth night, and this one is a proper 80s classic. PG-8X by Martin Lüders is a free emulation of the Roland JX-8P, the 6 voice analog polysynth from 1985 that ended up on countless synth pop

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HiveSuite Community

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Waiting to Return: Life Amid the Floods of South Aceh

Waiting to Return: Life Amid the Floods of South Aceh

Trumon, Aceh selatan, Aceh, Indonesia

There are scenes that cannot always be told in numbers. Behind the reports of 53 flooded homes and 124 residents forced to evacuate due to floods in Trumon and Central Trumon Subdistricts, South Aceh Regency,

horrorweapon

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Sunfish: a demented 80s flagship that never existed

Sunfish: a demented 80s flagship that never existed

There is a special place in my heart for synths that sound wrong in the right way, and remaincalm just shipped one. Sunfish came out on November 1, and it is what you get when a bunch of half-dead home

horrorweapon

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Apollon: A Free Virtual Analog Drum Machine With a Built-In Step Sequencer

Apollon: A Free Virtual Analog Drum Machine With a Built-In Step Sequencer

Tonight is a drum machine night, and this one is a proper little analog style box. Apollon by Synsonic Instruments is a free virtual analog drum machine with a built in step sequencer, and it used to cost

horrorweapon

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GForce Matrix-12: the modulation matrix monster, finally official

GForce Matrix-12: the modulation matrix monster, finally official

GForce just dropped the one I have been waiting for since they started doing Oberheim. The Matrix-12 is out, and this is the only official software version of the 1985 monster, built with Oberheim and

horrorweapon

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SCC: Free 12-Bit SP-1200 Grit for Your Drums

SCC: Free 12-Bit SP-1200 Grit for Your Drums

Quick heads up before anything else: SCC is not a sampler you load samples into. It is an effect plugin. You drop it on a drum bus, a break or a sample and it colours the sound with the grit of the old

jompiy

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The First Solo Heckel’s Horse Exhibition is Coming to London!

The First Solo Heckel’s Horse Exhibition is Coming to London!

Before moving on to the forthcoming and HISTORIC first Heckel’s Horse solo show coming to London in 2027 that only took 13 years to arrive… BLACK IVORY are doing a WEEKLY FREE ORIGINAL ARTWORK giveaway

horrorweapon

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The Swarm: a synth that thinks it's a flock of birds

The Swarm: a synth that thinks it's a flock of birds

So the guy behind Renoise just launched his own plugin company, and the first thing out of the door is genuinely weird in the best way. The Swarm is a wavetable synth where every note spawns a flock of

horrorweapon

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OB-Xd 3: Free Oberheim OB-X Emulation (With One Catch You Should Know)

OB-Xd 3: Free Oberheim OB-X Emulation (With One Catch You Should Know)

Quick heads up before anything else: OB-Xd is a free download, but only for non-commercial use. If you want to use it on commercial tracks, the registration is $99, and that also unlocks 2x and 4x