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Exclusive: Watch Zeppelin Design Labs Altura Theremin MIDI Controller In Action

The cat was let out of the bag last week by a site that shall remain nameless. Today, however, Zeppelin Design have posted a first-look video demo of their theremin MIDI controller in action. Enjoy!

Elektron Promises FREE Overbridge For Analog Keys, Analog Heat, Digitakt, Analog Four & Analog RYTM

Good news just in from the folks at Elektron. The proposed Overbridge and Overbridge Premium have been merged into just Overbridge and will be free for all related Elektron music machines.

The Smart Ring For Musicians That Turns Colors Into MIDI Messages Now Available To Pre-Order

Students at the University of Colorado developed smart rings that let you map sound samples to any colored surface. Innovative and useful, Specdrums is now available to pre-order!

Ueberschall Releases Elastik 3, Sample / Loop Player With Real-Time Polyphonic Scale Shifting

If you're looking for musical inspiration, Ueberschall's Elastik is a good way to generate new musical material. Elastik 3 adds to the features with a new polyphonic ReTune algorithm and more.

Rob Papen Releases SubBoomBass II

The first SubBoomBass from Rob Papen gave us access to a plethora of deep, earth shaking basses for a variety of genres that easily slotted into most mixes. SubBoomBass 2 takes us even deeper.

Native Instruments To Release Maschine 2.7 Soon: Real-Time Time Stretching For Audio

In this interesting interview and video demo the Maschine software audio development team reveal how real-time time stretching for audio will work in Maschine 2.7.

Here's How To Chain Patterns with Polyend's Seq MIDI Step Sequencer

Watch Polyend demonstrate how to chain patterns using their newest hardware MIDI step sequencer - Seq - in this free recorded MasterClass.

XAOC Releases Tallin, Dual Voltage Controlled VCA Eurorack Module

This new VCA offers some unusual control features such as dual CV control over signal attenuation and gain. Here are the details.

Sonar RIP: Gibson Pull The Plug On Cakewalk

Cakewalk Sonar is no more. It's been discontinued. This DAW bites the dust. Gibson Brands have just announced Cakewalk will no longer be developing software with immediate effect!

Explore The Good Stuff in Ableton Live 10 With DJ Kiva

Live 10 may be a couple of months off but we've had advanced access to it. In this excerpt from the free MasterClass, DJ Kiva shows you around some of the cool new features.

Erica Synths Releases Acidbox III

The Acidbox III from Erica Synths brings the essential functionality from the stereo Polivoks VCF in a compact and affordable hardware effects unit.

Erica Synths Releases Special Edition Acid Simona VCF Module

Designed as a one-off celebration special edition, this awesome looking VCF module can be yours for a surprisingly affordable price...

Waves Release 3 Plugins For iOS, Available For Steinberg Cubasis 2.3

Waves' first plugins for iPad / iPhone is a big deal. When prominent brands put their confidence in the iOS platform it gives confidence to producers that their mobile device can be their studio DAW.

Black Friday Early Deal: Waves Bass Slapper for only $29

It's not even Black Friday yet but it is Bass Tuesday as Waves makes Bass Slapper available for just $29. So if you give a funk about great bass sounds, check it out!

Infected Mushroom and Polyverse Music Release Gatekeeper, Ultimate Gating Effect

They call it an "in-your-face gating effect" and a "volume modulator". But this very affordable effect plugin is greater than the sum of its parts and useful indeed for electronic producers.