Polyflo App from FAC Available for the Mac, iPad, iPhone and Apple Vision Pro, Polyflo is capable of simultaneously transmitting MIDI and CV data, and comes packed with comprehensive modulation tools.

Your Morning Coffee Podcast: AI Artists Galore & a Human Artist With 1B StreamsEpisode 276 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart's podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now.
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Buy Pitch Innovations Rhythm Box for $1 and get IK Multimedia MixBox for FREE
Plugin Boutique just launched a crazy Black Friday offer. You can grab Rhythm Box by Pitch Innovations for just $1 using the BLACKFRIDAYINDIA coupon, and choose IK Multimedia MixBox (full version) as your gift-with-purchase. In other words, you’re effectively getting two plugins for $1, one of which is the full version of MixBox. It’s one [...]
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Voidstar Audio releases KLYP, a free soft clipper plugin
Voidstar Audio has released KLYP, a free soft clipper plugin for Windows, macOS, and Linux. I actually found out about this one a little late. It came out around four months ago, but a BPB reader (thanks, bunbonnie!) recently pointed me toward it, and I’m surprised it hasn’t made the rounds yet. After spending some [...]
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BandLab’s Membership drops to its lowest price ever for Black FridayAd feature with Sony and BandLab. Editor’s note: BandLab Technologies and MusicTech are both a part of the Caldecott Music Group.
BandLab is offering its best pricing ever on a full annual Membership package this Black Friday from 14 November. This will save you a whopping 60 per cent off full price, coming in at just $5.80 per month.
So what does that get you?
BandLab’s Membership covers a range of creative and career-building tools for all types of its 100 million musicians, artists and producers. Even British rapper Central Cee is using BandLab to build out his beats and ideas.
The Membership gives you access to over 25 additional creator tools within the powerful BandLab app in your web browser or on your iPad, iPhone or Android device. This lets you compose, create and arrange music, with innovative tools built in, including automatic track mixing, visual EQ, advanced voice processing and auto-generation with Extend, Re-compose and Layer composition and arrangement features.
BandLab’s new Voice Cleaner and Voice Changer software is also included in the Membership. These AI-powered features give you more control over your vocal recordings, allowing you to reduce background noise with one tap, or completely change the sound of your voice with 15 different vocal styles.

This Black Friday deal also includes 35 exclusive drops — beats, presets and sound packs to help you boost your creativity. You can create with up to 32 tracks, convert audio to MIDI data for ultimate flexibility and, of course, master your music with BandLab’s intuitive Mastering Presets. All these features are just the tip of BandLab’s iceberg.
The BandLab Membership will also give you early access to the Cakewalk Next DAW and give you enhanced features in Cakewalk Sonar.
For quick inspiration, your Membership lets you claim a new ready-made royalty-free beat every week from a library of over 1,000 tracks, spanning hip-hop to rock and pop.
Once your tracks are complete, take advantage of BandLab’s Artist Services to release your music on worldwide services like Spotify, Apple Music and more. Plus, with Opportunities, you can connect with professional industry platforms to promote your music, get booked and have your music featured on radio and sync placements. Then, use Fan Reach to market your music and connect with your listeners.
This exclusive deal ends after Black Friday, and it’s the perfect chance to unlock the power and opportunities of a full annual BandLab subscription for an amazingly low price.
Claim the deal at BandLab.com
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Meet MultiWAVE, Make Noise’s new 8-channel wavetable oscillatorMake Noise has unveiled MultiWAVE, an 8-channel dual wavetable oscillator designed for the New Universal Synthesizer System (NUSS) or any Eurorack modular synth.
Make Noise Founder Tony Rolando describes MultiWAVE as “taking the internals of a polysynth and bringing them up to the panel”. At its core, MultiWAVE uses a single set of controls to generate audio waveforms across eight independent channel outputs.
Each channel houses two independent wavetable oscillators (A & B), each capable of loading its own wavetable with variable frequency, modulation, and wavetable position. Every wavetable contains 64 waves, and the module can store eight banks of eight wavetables.

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A MultiMod-driven LFO and individual modulation settings for each oscillator give each channel its own character. Combined with Spread and Modulation Dissemination options, users can have variable modulation timing and depth across all voices, letting each of the eight channels behave independently. With the detune knob cranked fully clockwise, MultiWAVE even behaves as a harmonic oscillator, giving you unusually playable additive-style timbres straight out of the box.

MultiWAVE includes an output header for creating pre-patched connections to the audio signal inputs of two QXG modules. When grouped up with PoliMATHS, it creates the 8-channel core of the New Universal Synthesizer System.
Notably, the module can also generate polyphonic activations from monophonic sequences, using Modulation Dissemination, Span modes, Spread, and Accumulate – allowing all eight channels to diverge and evolve simultaneously.
For musicians who want to further customise the identity of MultiWave, you may do so by loading your own WaveEdit-format wavetables. Any or all slots can be replaced with your own custom sets.
Priced at $529, MultiWAVE is available now for pre-order, with shipping to follow later this month and into December.

Learn more at Make Noise Music.
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Beloved SF cat’s death fuels Waymo criticismThe death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has shaken San Francisco’s Mission District and prompted new debates about robotaxi safety.

Revealed Recordings Revealed Spire Dirty Dutch Leads Vol. 1Revealed Spire Dirty Dutch Leads Vol. 1 is a collection of 100 presets built around the authentic Dutch House sound that sparked a global wave of club music. Inside, you'll find the classic elements that defined the early era: sharp pitchbends, portamento slides, bleeps, percussive bloops, bouncy leads, and more. Each preset is equipped with modwheels and all four macros controls, giving you enhanced flexibility in shaping your sound. With Spire Dirty Dutch Leads Vol. 1, you get a suite of source sounds capturing the raw attitude and energy behind the early anthems that fueled the Golden Era. Reveal Yourself. Revealed Spire Dirty Dutch Leads Vol. 1 - Details LEAD [100]. 100 presets Core synthesizer patch mapping and programming All presets assigned intuitive modwheel parameters All presets assigned all four macro controls for easy tweaking and multiple sound variations. Preset format(s): .swzip (Full Bank) Note: Presets Require Full Retail Version of Spire 1.5.16 or later Approx. 14.7MB compressed .zip download. Read More

The Simplest Ultrasound Sensor Module, Minus the ModuleJust about every “getting started with microcontrollers” kit, Arduino or otherwise, includes an ultrasonic distance sensor module. Given the power of microcontrollers these days, it was only a matter of time before someone asked: “Could I do better without the module?” Well, [Martin Pittermann] asked, and his answer, at least with the Pi Pico, is a resounding “Yes”. A micro and a couple of transducers can offer a better view of the world.
The project isn’t really about removing the extra circuitry on the SR-HC0, since there really isn’t that much to start. [Martin] wanted to know just how far he could push ultrasound scanning technology using RADAR signal processing techniques. Instead of bat-like chirps, [Martin] is using something called Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave, which comes from RADAR and is exactly what it sounds like. The transmitter emits a continuous carrier wave with a varying frequency modulation, and the received wave is compared to see when it must have been sent. That gives you the time of flight, and the usual math gives you a distance.

The raw IQ signals translate into a range plot giving distances to everything in view.
Since he’s inspired by RADAR, it’s no surprise perhaps that [Martin]’s project reminds us of SDR, and the write-up gets right into the signal-processing code. Does it work better than a chirping module? Well, aside from using fewer parts, [Martin] can generate a full range plot for all objects in the arc of the sensor’s emissions out to 4 meters using just the Pico. [Martin] points out that it wouldn’t take much amplification to get a greater range. He’s not finished yet, though — the real goal here is to measure wind speed, which means he’s going to have to go full Doppler. We look forward to it.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the Pico doing fun stuff at these frequencies, and Doppler RADAR is a thing hackers do, so why not ultrasound?

GRAMMY Nominations 2025: Best Dance Pop RecordingThe 2025 GRAMMY nominations are here and we're going to help you to untangle it all right up until the big event, continuing with the Best Dance Pop Recording category.

Take a listen to the nominated recordings below--who do you think will win?

See the full list of nominees in every category here.

Bluest FlameSelena Gomez & benny blancobenny blanco, Dylan Brady & Cashmere Cat, producers;benny blanco & Cashmere Cat, mixers

AbracadabraLady GagaCirkut, Lady Gaga & Andrew Watt, producers; Serban Ghenea, mixer

Midnight SunZara LarssonMargo XS & MNEK, producers; Tom Norris, mixer

Just Keep Watching (From F1® The Movie)Tate McRaeTyler Spry & Ryan Tedder, producers; Manny Marroquin, mixer

IllegalPinkPantheressAksel Arvid & PinkPantheress, producers; Nickie Jon Pabon

Zara Larsson photo by Charlotte Rutherford

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SoundGhost release Signa SoundGhost's latest instrument combines a| selection of analogue and digital waveforms with noise sources to create continually evolving soundscapes.

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Using the Pyroelectric Effect to Identify Broken MLCC CapacitorsVintage computer hardware can fail in a variety of fascinating ways, with [Bits und Bolts] dealing with an interesting failure mode, in the form of degraded MLCC capacitors on Voodoo 2 graphics cards. These little marvels of miniaturized surface-mount technology enable the placement of ceramic capacitors with very little space required, but as they degrade over time or due to physical damage, they can cause big issues in a circuit.
In the case of the two Voodoo 2 GPUs that [Bits und Bolts] was trying to fix, the clue that something was wrong was graphical glitches, which seemed to be related to something dragging down the 5V rail. Using the standard ‘inject voltage and see what gets hot’ method, he discovered a couple of dead MLCCs and replaced them. But something was still dragging the rail down. Unfortunately, whatever it was wasn’t enough to heat up the part in question, and no sane person wants to desolder hundreds or even thousands of MLCCs on a PCB and see whether it makes a difference.
Ultimately, the pyroelectric effect was used to hunt down the culprit, saving countless hours of work. This is a property of certain naturally electrically polarized crystals, in which the material generates a voltage when heated or cooled. Materials like that used in MLCCs, for example.

With a hot air gun set to 200 °C and aimed at a specific MLCC, it was possible to measure changes not only in resistivity but also in voltage between the 5V rail and ground. The voltage spike was relatively minor for the smaller MLCCs, but the larger ones showed a significant voltage swing of around 2.5mV.
The culprit turned out to be a large MLCC, which showed only a weak pyroelectric effect and a resistivity that didn’t drop as quickly as that of similar MLCCs on the same board. After replacement, the faulty MLCC did indeed measure as faulty, and the card’s 5V rail now showed a healthy resistance level to ground.
In addition to knowing what kind of resistivity you should measure on a PCB’s voltage rails relative to ground, this method provides a fairly painless way to quickly find a dodgy MLCC. Just make sure not to try this method on electrolytic or tantalum. Heating those up won’t go well.
We often treat decoupling capacitors as more art than science, but of course, we shouldn’t. MLCCs can even exhibit the piezoelectric effect, too.

GRAMMY Nominations 2025: Best Dance/Electronic RecordingThe 2025 GRAMMY nominations are here and we're going to help you to untangle it all right up until the big event, continuing with the Best Dance/Electronic Recording category.

Take a listen to the nominated recordings below--who do you think will win?

See the full list of nominees in every category here.

No CapDisclosure & Anderson .PaakDisclosure, producer; Guy Lawrence, mixer

Victory LapFred again.., Skepta, & PlaqueBoyMaxBlake Cascoe, Berwyn Du Bois, Fred again.., Darcy Lewis, Dan Mayo & PlaqueBoyMax, producers; Tom Norris, mixer

SPACE INVADERKAYTRANADAKAYTRANADA, producer; KAYTRANADA, mixer

VOLTAGESkrillexJohn Feldmann & Skrillex, producers; Luca Pretolesi, Skrillex & Virtual Riot, mixers

End Of SummerTame ImpalaKevin Parker, producer; Kevin Parker, mixer

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