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Holiday Roundup 21 Dec 2025 – 11 Jan 2026: AudioSpace, Outgrowth, Fors Junior, PulseDial, HiChord, Matt Damon’s piano, Medusa, Nexora

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AudioSpace 7.1 visualiser and synth

New in AudioSpace 7.1

  • MIDI support, complete with an experimental software synth
  • “Black Hole” location now has a Kerr black hole, complete with accretion disk and 3 moons
  • a new location, “The Void”, is now there when you want total blackness without stars
  • new SPACE mode, “gravity”, based on the new black hole
  • new shader: seagrass
  • shader and script editor can now be launched from the menu (with a pen sub-button)
  • shader compile errors are now displayed directly on the respective panel
  • vectorscope enhancements (rebalanced params, more dynamic behavior)
  • menu layout improvements; now 3D models and automation scripts are always available, as primary shaders are merged under one button & list
  • improved auto-camera logic with with 3D models and side walls
  • re-clicking element group name in the menu now switches focus to the next active element of the same group (including the next panel on a multi-panel wall)
  • mouse wheel scrolling now works in menu lists without clicking the list first
  • improved title bar visibility

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Aqeel Aadam Outgrowth

Outgrowth is a sample-based instrument built collaboratively by Aqeel Aadam Sound and BlankFor.ms. Designed with creativity, flexibility, and performance in mind, Outgrowth provides unique, multifaceted ways to reimagine audio with your mouse or keyboard.

Outgrowth features five unique engines for processing samples:

  • Stem: A basic one-shot style player that repitches the sample
  • Retain: A granular stretching engine that sustains the sample indefinitely
  • Reflect: A looping algorithm that loops the sample at a consistent rate across all pitches
  • Radiate: An additive resynthesizer that maps each harmonic of the sample to a sine wave oscillator
  • Delve: A wavetable synthesizer in which the sample becomes the basis for a completely unique wavetable
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Outgrowth also features five standout audio effects for shaping your sounds further:

  • Subvert: A unique shaper that flattens or inverts the sample’s volume
  • Submerge: A singular effect for adding dimensional realism to sample repitching
  • Strike: A dynamic control for adding an acoustic-like response to sample playback and performance
  • Ripple: A one-knob tape emulation handcrafted by BlankFor.ms that can be subtle, deconstructive, and anywhere in between
  • Smear: A pre-ADSR reverb for congealing notes and blurring boundaries between pitch and texture

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Fors Junior 4-bit wavetable synth

Junior is a 4-bit wavetable synthesizer based on the soundchip of our favorite vintage handheld video game console, bringing the raw tones of the original into present day.

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PulseDial DTMF Synthesizer

Transform classic telephone keypad tones into a playable musical instrument with modern features. PulseDial is a professional-grade DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency) synthesizer plugin designed for musicians, sound designers, and telecommunications professionals.

Pulsedial

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HiChord Aluminum Edition

Pocket Audio announces an aluminum edition of its pocket-sized HiChord chord synthesiser, looper and drum machine, shipping in January.

Hichord Aluminum

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Matt Damon’s Krakauer Eastlake Style Victorian Oak Grand Piano

Fancy an ornate grand piano formerly owned by Matt Damon? If you have $[inquire for price!] and would like the 1890 6’2″ quarter sown oak Krakauer Parlor Grand Piano then it’s available — not yet restored — from Antique Piano Shop.

Matt Damon Grand Piano
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Medusa: Sound Effects for Modular Synths

Medusa is a sound effects synth in a modular format. It runs off a Raspberry Pi Pico and uses Arduino IDE and C++ to code everything up. It also uses Claude AI to help finesse the code.

Nexora multi-track glitch FX

Nexora is built around a powerful, performance-oriented glitch grid where each row acts as an independent FX track. With up to 10 parallel tracks, you can sculpt complex rhythmic textures and evolving sound transformations in real time.

Nexora

Each track can host up to 4 effects, selected from a deep arsenal of 20 creative FX, including step filter, distortion, chorus, phaser, flanger, filter, delay, reverb, repeat, reverse, pitch drop, gate, pan, shuffle, bitcrusher, ringmod, fracture, stretcher, rotary speaker, and comb filtering.

Draw patterns on the grid and let Nexora slice, glitch, modulate, and reshape your audio with tight BPM-sync.

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