Amorph is a FREE plugin that turns text prompts into fully functioning instruments and effectsIndie developer team Artists in DSP have created a free text-to-DSP plugin which they say can be used to turn any text prompt into a working FX or instrument.
Meet Amorph, a free piece of software which arrives with the bold goal of “democratising audio programming”, by allowing musicians and producers to harness AI to “amplify their creative potential”.
“Amorph removes the barrier between the idea in a musician’s head and the signal in their DAW,” Artists in DSP writes. “Users simply describe the effect, and the plugin builds it for them.”

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An example of how the plugin might work in practice is as follows:

Prompt: User types the sound, instrument or effect they want in plain english
Generate: Amorph’s AI writes the DSP code for the idea in real time.
Play: AI-generated code allows the user to play with a fully functional effects processor or instrument

Amorph appears to be aimed chiefly at those with little to no coding knowledge, but it’s worth noting the plugin does grant “full access” to its Cmajor engine, meaning more code-savvy producers can tweak AI-generated instruments or effects, or even write them from scratch. 
“The most important feature of Amorph is freedom. You do not need to know how to code to use it,” Artists in DSP says.

Amorph is currently in its stable beta stage, and is being beta tested by Discord users to ensure it writes reliable code.
“I have spent about 20 years buying plug-ins and never really releasing anything.” One writes. “Total waste of money but now at least I can make my own ‘new toys’ without feeling guilty. [It’s] hard to describe how awesome this thing is.”
In terms of system requirements, Amorph demands MacOS 10.13 or later, or Windows 10/11 (64-bit). Artists in DSP also notes that the plugin is compatible with most major DAWs, including Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Reaper and Bitwig.
To download and learn more, head to Artists in DSP.
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Right now, you can get Behringer’s PPG Wave synth clone for less than £500Behringer’s Wave synth – inspired by the classic PPG Wave Hybrid synthesiser from the ’80s – is now reduced over at Thomann, and here’s your chance to get it for less than £500.
The budget gear brand launched its Wave synth back in 2024 after four years of development, and it replicates the unique architecture of the PPG Wave 2.2 and 2.3, known for their wavetable synthesis capabilities. The original can be heard across multiple classic records as it was embraced by huge artists like Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Rush, Gary Numan, and Tangerine Dream.
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Behringer’s take on the Wave is an 8-voice multi-timbral hybrid synth equipped with 16 digital oscillators, each of which can draw from 30 original factory wavetables.
This more compact, modernised version hosts 64 user-defined wavetables, each containing 64 waveforms, along with 32 user-defined transients. You can also import your own wavetables and transients via the SynthTribe app.

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If you need to jog your memory further on all it has to offer, you can find out more in the video below:

In other Behringer news, it recently launched the BMX, its clone of the classic Oberheim DMX drum machine. The release landed hot on the heels of its take on the Roland Juno-60, the JN-80, which landed a week prior. It had been a long time coming, as a BMX prototype was teased all the way back in March 2023. The original DMX was first released in 1980, and featured on beloved records including The Police’s Every Breath You Take and Madonna’s Holiday. 
To shop the discounted Behringer Wave, head over to Thomann now.
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“We didn’t aim to make portable recording better – we aimed to define its future”: Meet the high-end, portable Isovox Pro vocal boothSwedish vocal equipment specialist Isovox has unveiled the Isovox Pro, a new high-end vocal booth “engineered for the world’s finest voices” and designed on the back of “years of global feedback”.
With a portable design enabling use everywhere from professional studios to home recording environments, the Isovox Pro is built to “let professional microphones and signal chains truly shine”.

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At the heart of the Isovox Pro is Isovox’s proprietary RAS (Reference Acoustic System), which, via all-new acoustic architecture, controls low-frequency build-up while maintaining clarity for “crystal-clear, punchy” vocal recordings. This is achieved via “advanced acoustic materials”, plus an optimised, non-parallel internal geometry.
Isovox says patent-pending Acoustic Gills sit at the core of this approach, and the brand’s Isomax BENS (Bass Enhancing Noise Shields) are available as add-on panels for boosting the low-end weight of vocal recordings. These panels attach magnetically to the outside of the vocal booths Acoustic Gills, allowing for effortless installation and removal.
Credit: Isovox
Measuring approximately 59 cm/23.2” (W) x 94 cm/37” (D) x 68 cm/26.8” (H) externally and 47 cm/18.5” (W) x 66 cm/26” (D) x 48 cm/18.9” (H) internally, the Isovox Pro represents a 20% increase in size over Isovox’s Isovox 2 portable vocal booth, allowing for more room for vocalists to perform within the booth itself.
A Magic Mic Pole is also included, and is adjustable in height, depth and 360-degree angle, allowing for custom positioning of any microphone within the unit. The booth also features a universal Magic Mic Holder, which provides easy setup and a sleek look “without the hassle of traditional shock mounts”.
Credit: Isovox
Additionally, the Isovox Pro features internal, rotatable LED lighting to allow a vocalist to see what they’re doing and their proximity to the mic, for example, while performing in any lighting level. There’s even an IsoFan – an “ultra-silent” active ventilation system.
“We didn’t aim to make portable recording better, but rather we aimed to define its future,” reads a bold statement from Isovox owner and CEO Philip Mayson. “Isovox Pro delivers the sound people expect from serious productions – anywhere.”
Isovox Pro is available now priced at €3,999/$3,999. For more information, head to Isovox.
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Liven up your workflow with this animal-themed Safari Audio plugin bundle for just £44We never thought we’d come across a plugin decorated with camels, but this funky bundle from Safari Audio offers some of the most striking interfaces we’ve ever seen.
The bundle deal, exclusive to Plugin Boutique, features five plugins and would normally total at £240.98, but with 81 percent off until 1 March, you can get them all for less than 50 quid. These plugins bring the experimental nature of physical guitar pedals to the digital realm, and not only do they look cool, but each one offers a range of useful tools and versatile effects.
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Inside the bundle you’ll get the Camel Strip vintage-inspired channel strip plugin, which combines three legendary compressors and EQs that can be toggled between and are displayed on the interface. It also offers a dynamic gate, input drive, and lush spring & plate reverbs.

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Arguably one of the coolest looking out the bunch is the Rabbit Tape tape emulation, offering Cassette and Reel-to-Reel Tape modules as well as features like Wow and Flutter knobs to modulate the sound for authentic tape movement. You also get the Falcon Air EQ within this bundle, which promises to deliver “pristine shimmer and tames harshness like a pro”.
Another animal-themed goodie is the Bull Sub Machine, designed in collaboration with Grammy-winning mix engineer Leslie Brathwaite, known for his work with Cardi B, Pharrell Williams, and Lil Uzi Vert. Rounding off the whole bundle is Noam’s Mastering Console, a faithful plugin recreation of the custom-built 1-of-1 tube mastering desk made exclusively for Safari HQ (Noam is the founder of the brand).
This one has no animal aesthetic tomfoolery, but does combine analogue circuitry with modern flexible tools. Take a closer look in the video below:

To shop this deal and more, head over to Plugin Boutique. 
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Software Development on the Nintendo Famicom in Family BASICBack in the 1980s, your options for writing your own code and games were rather more limited than today. This also mostly depended on what home computer you could get your hands on, which was a market that — at least in Japan — Nintendo was very happy to slide into with their ‘Nintendo Family Computer’, or ‘Famicom’ for short. With the available peripherals, including a tape deck and keyboard, you could actually create a fairly decent home computer, as demonstrated by [Throaty Mumbo] in a recent video.

After a lengthy unboxing of the new-in-box components, we move on to the highlight of the show, the HVC-007 Family BASIC package, which includes a cartridge and the keyboard. The latter of these connects to the Famicom’s expansion port. Inside the package, you also find a big Family BASIC manual that includes sprites and code to copy. Of course, everything is in Japanese, so [Throaty] had to wrestle his way through the translations.
The cassette tape is used to save applications, with the BASIC package also including a tape with the Sample 3 application, which is used in the video to demonstrate loading software from tape on the Famicom. Although [Throaty] unfortunately didn’t sit down to type over the code for the sample listings in the manual, it does provide an interesting glimpse at the all-Nintendo family computer that the rest of the world never got to enjoy.

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Vintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew ComputerAre you in the mood for a retrocomputing deep dive into the Scriptovision Super Micro Script? It was a Canadian-made vintage video titler from the 80s, and [Cameron Kaiser] has written up a journey of repair and reverse-engineering for it. But his work is far more than just a refurbish job; [Cameron] transforms the device into something not unlike 8-bit homebrew computers of the era, able to upload and run custom programs with a limited blister keypad for input, and displaying output on a composite video monitor.

Hardware-wise, the Super Micro Script is almost a home computer, so [Cameron] got it accepting and running custom code.A video titler like the Super Micro Script gave people the ability to display bitmapped images (like text or simple graphics) onto a video stream electronically. A standalone device, under the hood, it uses a 6502 as CPU and a Motorola 6847 VDG video chip. [Cameron] observes that architecture-wise, it actually had a lot in common with early 8-bit home computers. Sure, it performed only one “job” but that really had more to do with its restrictive firmware than anything else.
[Cameron] obtained a used unit and repaired it, reverse-engineered the scrambled address and data lines (an anti-cloning and anti-tampering measure), and converted it into something for which he could write his own software and run his own programs. As for uploading those programs? A bit-banged serial port on I/O borrowed from the blister keypad, running at a frankly quite respectable 19.2 kbps.
We hope you’re intrigued, because [Cameron] has one more surprise: he created a MAME emulator for the Super Micro Script called SMSBUG. Originally created to make software development easier, its existence also means anyone can join in on the vintage computing fun. The emulator, along with other handy utilities and info, is available on GitHub.

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