The Sequencing Machine: crazy-looking DIY synthesizer from Optotronics

A naked mess of chaos generation, The Sequencing Machine is a dirt cheap antithesis of chilled and ambient electronica music making.

Lightning Boy II modular valve overdrive pedal

Here's a new idea for a modular drive pedal system for your guitar - will it catch on?

SLOO: Voice Swarm Synthesizer from Tim Exile

Tim Exile brings us a Shed Load Of Oscillators with SLOO, a voice swarm synthesizer for Reaktor.

ROLI Blocks Dashboard opens up control potential

The open beta of Blocks Dashboard lets you transform your fruity light-up blocky thing into a modular MIDI control surface. This could be good.

Musicon: the ultimate analogue hardware sequencer

Musicon is an awesome hardware polyphonic barrel sequencer for kids of all ages and it's looking for funding on Kickstarter

Walrus Audio trumpet their new Warhorn Overdrive pedal

New drive from the Walrus: The Warhorn is a 'mid-focused' pedal that comes with two clipping modes, and aims to give your guitar's driven tone a bit more fanfare.

Caress sounds into being with Landscapes’ Stereo Field touch-plate instrument

Your skin conductivity creates patch points and modulation routings via Stereo Field's touch-plate to manipulate internal sound, incoming audio or CV. That's a lot of chaos in one box

Cylons have invaded Eurorack with Synthrotek’s Roboto

Don't care what it does, it has a friggin' Cylon glowing on the front! Roboto - lots of robotic, lo-fi and voice changing effects in Eurorack. By your command!

The Eventide ‘structural effect’ mystery is finally solved: We welcome ‘Fission’

Over the new year, Eventide teased us with their new developments, and now a new plug-in called 'Fission' is available, uncovering what 'Structural Effect' really means.

SEQ: Hardware polyphonic MIDI Step Sequencer from Polyend

Look at the pretty lights! The Polyend SEQ MIDI Step Sequencer is a wonderland of classy 8 track, 32 step sequencer - available now for preorder.

Chord Organ for Eurorack from Music Thing Modular

Inspired by the classic Bontempi Chord Organ this module will bring instant chords to your modular either as a kit or as a firmware update to the Radio Music module

Behringer working on a Minimoog clone

Uli Behringer posts on a forum that they are building a super cheap Minimoog Model D clone and the internet goes bonkers.

Trickfish to ship Bullhead.5K bass amp head in April

Trickfish have a new offering in the compact bass amp head category, the Bullhead.5K - and it's to be priced attractively, too.

Harrison updates Mixbus DAW to version 4, professing improved sound

Do you use a selection of DAW's for different aspects of your workflow? If so, could this latest v4 of Mixbus tick all the boxes as the ultimate mixing DAW?

Explore granular sounds with Inear Display’s Litote effect plug-in

Generate some dramatic textures with Inear Display's randomising granular engine Litote.

Warwick Leland ‘Lee’ Sklar Masterbuilt signature Bass I

Living legend Leland Sklar gets his own signature bass with plenty of tweaks based upon his many years in the business.

Is Focusrite’s new iTrack One Pre missing something?

Focusrite are very proud of this little iTrack One Pre interface for iOS mobile recording. While it is cute, can you see what's missing?

Roland Cloud 4.0 update brings in three legendary synthesizers

New Roland Cloud update gives you an ACB modelled Jupiter 8, Juno 106 and System-8 to run right in your DAW.

Deckard’s Dream: Yamaha CS80 replicant synthesizer

Roman Filippov from Sputnik Modular has released details of a Yamaha CS80 clone he's developing called Deckard's Dream. Is it a replicant or the real thing?

Bergstok Music: Reversible modular guitars looking for backing

Not only can this Bergstok design be switched between a left- and a right-handed version in minutes, you can also swap out pickups with ease, too.

Ernie Ball Music Man 30th Anniversary Stingray 5-string bass

This new bass guitar is being released to celebrate 30 years of the Stingray 5-String.

Win a Minimoog signed by Jan Hammer in Bob Moog Foundation raffle

$20 could win you a vintage 1974 Minimoog Model D signed by Jan Hammer and support a good cause while you're at it

Sample Logic brings dynamic rhythmic sequencing to Kontakt with Rhythmology

Get your groove on with the dynamic sequencing of 4 loop engines, effects and mixing in Rhythmology. But is it more than a loop library?

Bitwig Studio 2 now available

Bitwig Studio 2 is now available for download and brings modulators, new devices, CV/Gate and the dreaded subscription-style perpetual license.