Acustica Audio Amber 3 is now a full-blown plug-in suite

Acustica Audio has released Amber 3, that adds to v2's EQ with a compressor and a preamp as well as a new channel strip plug-in, which combines all three units into one.

Teenage Engineering OP-Z gets a hardware upgrade with the oplab MIDI/CV module

The little yellow oplab accessory for the OP-Z brings CV, trigger, gate, Pocket Operator sync and MIDI In/Out making it so versatile you've got to wonder why it didn't have it in the first place?

Reed200: a spectral modelled 200A Wurlitzer

Sampleson uses spectral analysis and modelling to faithfully recreate the Wurlitzer 200a in only 30MB of sine wave samples. The Reed200 is refreshingly simple and delightfully full of character.

MidiWrist app: Turn your Apple Watch into the most cramped MIDI controller ever

MidiWrist is a new app that can turn your Apple Watch into a MIDI controller - but will the teeny surface area of the watch reduce its usability for musicians?

SP-2400: Is Behringer developing an Emu sampler clone?

An unexplained and unsourced 3D render of what could be a sampler based on the Emu SP-1200. The SP-2400 image doesn't come with many facts but all eyes turn to Behringer for an explanation.

Hoerold VoIS is an analog stereo vocoder – and a massive DIY project

Looking for an analog studio vocoder? Used a soldering iron before? Here's a promising new option: The Hoerold VoIS has 18 frequency bands and comes with a stereo mode, among many other features.

Circuit Happy adds MIDI clock support to Missing Link for Ableton Link

Circuit Happy's Missing Link solution for syncing hardware devices and modular synthesizers via Ableton Link has seen a software update that adds support for MIDI clock.

Resynator: 70’s pitch tracking synthesizer rediscovered in a new documentary

Alison Tavel, the daughter of the late Don Tavel the inventor of the Resynator, is on a mission to resurrect her dad's pitch-tracking synthesizer through a documentary looking for Kickstarter funding

Best free plug-ins this week: Waves, TAS-X, LRC5 and CuSnP

Some more nice freebie pluggos for you this week, including a 3D audio visualizer, a tremolo, and two apps for iOS, an interesting strings-esque virtual instrument and an EQ.

K-Devices WOV and TTAP: creative modulation and dual-buffer delay plug-ins

K-Devices has two new plug-ins out that share the same development DNA: WOV is an amplitude modulator, TTAP is a creative delay. Plenty of creative potential here, we think...

Maxon OD808-40: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of a classic overdrive pedal

Maxon celebrates the 40th Anniversary of its classic green overdrive pedal with the release of the OD808-40, a limited run of 400 pedals including 40 signed by circuit designer Susumu Tamura!

Joyo R-09 Vision: 18 modulation effects in one pedal for under $90!

A super-affordable dual-channel modulation pedal with a staggering 18 effects onboard for $90. Will the Joyo R-09 Vision pedal clean up in the contest for best budget modulation pedal of the year?

SampleTank 4 with up to 8000 sounds and 250GB of samples available now

Whatever sound you can possibly imagine can probably be found amongst the 8000 presets of SampleTank 4. IK Multimedia's behemoth sample-based software workstation is available now.

ZVex Instant Lo-Fi Junky to ship in a new vertical edition

ZVex has just posted an image of a new vertical version of his Instant Lo-Fi Junky pedal on Facebook that will be easier to integrate into your pedalboard setup.

AcoustiTools for iOS: Using AR to solve live sound problems

Can an $18 iOS app can revolutionize speaker placement for live sound? The four modules included here use Augmented Reality and some pretty nifty tech to provide features we've never seen before.

Maker hart debuts beefed up Loop 8 mixer/audio interface

The new Loop 8 is a handy 8-channel audio mixer with a built-in audio interface, which looks to be a nice fit for setups involving small gadgets like the Korg Volca series.

ETHER: another weird object from Soma Labs – it captures electromagnetic waves

Vlad from Soma Laboratory produces some of the most wonderfully weird and fascinating devices. ETHER is an anti-radio that picks up the electromagnetic waves around you and turns them into a soundscape.

Igniter vehicle sound design: spaceships, sports cars, trucks and texture

Craft your own plane, train, rocket, bike, alien, chopper and automobile engine sounds with Igniter, a fascinating granular sampling and synthesizer sound design machine.

Washburn launches Nuno Bettencourt 4N signature model for 2019

Nuno Bettencourt, once guitarist with Extreme, has worked with the Washburn Custom Shop to update his famous N4 signature model guitar for 2019 - enter the new Washburn 4N edition!

Ibanez Jake Bowen JBM10FX: A budget signature guitar by the Periphery guitarist

This new lightweight high-performance signature guitar for Periphery's Jake Bowen certainly retains all the pro features you want, yet still manages to keep costs down.

Teenage Engineering open up about the OP-1 price hike

First the OP-1 was dead, then it was on eBay at vastly inflated prices, then it was alive again and now it's back with a 50% price hike - what's that all about?

4MS new modules let you plug in your headphones and Listen to your Eurorack

4MS has released the Listen range of modules which feature an expandable mixer that outputs modular and line audio signals and an I/O module that has a dual headphone output for you and a friend.

Rob Papen brings Rack Extension Vecto 4-oscillator vector synthesizer to VST

Rob says that they received so many requests to expand the reach of Vecto, their 4 oscillator vector synthesis based synthesizer, to other plug-in formats that he felt it rude not to. 

API The Box compact analog console gets a 2019 refresh

The stylish desk has eight input channels and eight 500 Series slots, as well as 16 summing channels (24 during mix) with LED metering. It uses the same circuitry and components as other API consoles.