Aiyn Zahev Sounds AZS JUP-8000 TRANCEFORMThe sound of trance at its peak : bold, melodic, and built for the dance floor. Tranceform for the Arturia JUP-8000 brings 280 presets inspired by the original JP-8000, the synth that defined an era. Inside you'll find: • Driving, resonant basses • Pulsing, hypnotic arps and sequences • Soaring pads and massive supersaws • Authentic plucks and leads with that unmistakable early-2000s tone. These are the sounds that powered clubs and festivals worldwide, now reprogrammed with modern weight and punch, while keeping the raw character that made them work so well in the mix. This isn't retro. This is a return. Forged from the past, formed for the future. 280 Presets MIDI Macro Assignments Version 1.0.0.6+ recommended. https://youtu.be/Q71Onb2aqoA Read More

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LeRobot Brings Autonomy to Hobby RobotsRobotic arms have a lot in common with CNC machines in that they are usually driven by a fixed script of specific positions to move to, and actions to perform. Autonomous behavior isn’t the norm, especially not for hobby-level robotics. That’s changing rapidly with LeRobot, an open-source machine learning framework from the Hugging Face community.
The SO-101 arm is an economical way to get started.
If a quick browse of the project page still leaves you with questions, you’re not alone. Thankfully, [Ilia] has a fantastic video that explains and demonstrates the fundamentals wonderfully. In it, he shows how LeRobot allows one to train an economical 3D-printed robotic arm by example, teaching it to perform a task autonomously. In this case, the task is picking up a ball and putting it into a cup.
[Ilia] first builds a dataset by manually operating the arm to pick up a ball and place it in a cup. Then, with a dataset consisting of only about fifty such examples, he creates a machine learning model capable of driving the arm to autonomously pick up a ball and place it in a cup, regardless of where the ball and cup actually are. It even gracefully handles things like color changes and [Ilia] moving the cup and ball around mid-task. You can skip directly to 34:16 to see this autonomous behavior in action, but we do recommend watching the whole video for a highly accessible yet deeply technical overview.

LeRobot is a very flexible framework, capable of much more than just doing imitation learning on 3D-printed low-cost robot arms. But the main goal is to make this sort of thing accessible to just about anyone, as [Ilia] aptly demonstrates. We have seen tons of high-quality DIY robot arms, and since the LeRobot framework is both developing quickly and isn’t tied to any particular hardware, it might be powering the next robot project sooner than you think.

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Florian Mrugalla releases Absorbiere, a free sidechain ring modulation plugin
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This plug-and-play MIDI guitar from Jamstik is its “most affordable yet, without compromising on performance”Jamstik, the maker of real electric guitars that also function as MIDI controllers, has launched a brand-new, streamlined model at a lower price point.
The Jamstik Core has been designed for musicians, producers, and educators “who want plug-and-play versatility at a breakthrough price”, allowing musicians to control virtual instruments, synths, notation apps, and hardware gear directly from the instrument.

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Players can record both analogue and MIDI simultaneously with Jamstik Core; use it to control virtual instruments in a DAW, or connect to analogue synths and gear via TRS-MIDI. It hosts onboard processing, USB-C connectivity, a 3.5mm TRS-MIDI output, plus an onboard MIDI mode-switch to toggle between settings.
Diving further into its features, the guitar itself is a 3/4 sized, solid-body electric guitar with 22-frets and a standard 25.5” scale length. It houses a single humbucker, a volume control, and a 1/4” guitar output for connecting with amps, interfaces, and effects pedals.
It’s also fitted with a unique Hexaphonic MIDI pickup that captures each string’s signal and feeds data directly to Jamstik’s onboard processors. Take a closer look in the video below:

The guitar has been launched via a Kickstarter page, which has already surpassed its fundraising goal. Pre-orders are being accepted on the platform now, with early supporters able to secure one for the limited-time price of $479.99.
The Jamstik Core can be shipped globally, and all backers receive access to Jamstik’s cross-platform companion software. Colour options include Midnight Black, Glacier White, Sky Blue, Lilac Purple, Forest Green, and Red Coral. Left-handed models will be available in Midnight Black and Glacier White.
“We’ve always believed that technology should make music more accessible – not more complicated or expensive,” says Ed Cannon, CEO. “With the Jamstik Core, we’re delivering our most affordable MIDI guitar yet, without compromising on performance or playability.”
Jonathan Keller, Senior Embedded Systems Engineer at Jamstik’s parent company, Zivix, adds: “We’ve taken everything musicians love about our higher-end MIDI guitars and streamlined it into a sleek, plug-and-play package. The Jamstik Core offers a level of tracking precision and software integration that simply hasn’t been available in this price range until now.”
To find out more or pre-order now, head over to the Jamstik Core Kickstarter page. You can also find out more about the brand via the official Jamstik website.
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Album Review of "American Wasteland" by Whitney Tai (8/10)Self-releasedProducer: TommyHatzThe joy of an album like American Wasteland is that each listen reveals something new. That betrays the fact that there’s a depth to the songwriting that transcends genres and trends. Tai has the sort of voice that tears away at your soul with unrelenting passion; as the emotions pile up, we’re left drained and satisfied. She has a gift for anthemic pop, resulting in swathes of epic melody washing over us in glorious waves. The combo of strength and vulnerability has yielded a killer record. The post Album Review of "American Wasteland" by Whitney Tai (8/10) first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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How to Stop Zeus from Toasting Your PiIf you’ve ever lost gear to lightning or power spikes, you know what a pain they are. Out in rural Arkansas, where [vinthewrench] lives, the grid is more chaos than comfort – especially when storms hit. So, he dug into the problem after watching a cheap AC-DC module quite literally melt down. The full story, as always, begins with the power company’s helpful reclosers: lightning-induced surges, and grid switching transients. The result though: toasted boards, shorted transformers, and one very dead Raspberry Pi. [vinthewrench] wrote it all up – with decent warnings ahead. Take heed and don’t venture into things that could put your life in danger.
Back to the story. Standard surge suppressors? Forget it. Metal-oxide varistor (MOV)-based strips are fine for office laptops, but rural storms laugh at their 600 J limits. While effective and commonly used, MOVs are “self-sacrificing” and degrade over time with each surge event.
[vinthewrench] wanted something sturdier. Enter ZeusFilter 1.0 – a line-voltage filter stitched together from real parts: a slow-blow fuse, inrush-limiting thermistor, three-electrode gas discharge tube for lightning-class hits, beefy MOVs for mid-sized spikes, common-mode choke to kill EMI chatter, and safety caps to bleed off what’s left. Grounding done right, of course. The whole thing lives on a single-layer PCB, destined to sit upstream of a hardened PSU.
As one of his readers pointed out, though, spikes don’t always stop at the input. Sudden cut-offs on the primary can still throw nasty pulses into the secondary, especially with bargain-bin transformers and ‘mystery’ regulators. The reader reminded that counterfeit 7805s are infamous for failing short, dumping raw input into a supposedly safe 5 V rail. [vinthewrench] acknowledged this too, recalling how collapsing fields don’t just vanish politely – Lenz makes sure they kick back hard. And yes, when cheap silicon fails, it fails ugly: straight smoke-release mode.
In conclusion, we’re not particularly asking you to try this at home if you lack the proper knowledge. But if you have a high-voltage addiction, this home research is a good start to expand your knowledge of what is, in theory, possible.