When we find interesting news, links and resources that don’t warrant a whole article of their own, but are worth sharing, we’ll put them here. Some of them might in the future become full articles, in which case we’ll link to them.
28 September 2026
- Video: Rescued bears enjoy private piano concert: Former Yes musician Rick Wakeman plays a piano concert to bears at a sanctuary in Vietnam. His concert was performed live on a Yamaha grand piano positioned in Animals Asia in the Tam Dao national park. Wakeman is trying to raise awareness of 125 animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’ in the country.
20 September 2026
- CLAVE Euclidean drum machine from Oficina de Sonido is on Kickstarter, now fully funded, but still open for pledges.
18 September 2026
- EH-01 from Hedgehog Systems, fully funded on Kickstarter.
- ELZ_1 core, compact synth module is the Sonicware ELZ_1 in a module.
- KB Live Solutions’ param8 controller goes on preorder, for December launch.
10 September 2026
- Lucid Beatgrids dropped in Serato DJ 5.0 beta.
14 September 2026
- Reaktor TableMorph wavetable synth from Deep Data Loops launches, requires full version of Reaktor 6.5.0
9 September 2026
- Wavea Flite multi-sampler/synth version 2 has been released.
- Shakmat launches its Lancer’s Lash Eurorack snare synthesiser.
- Elektron Outbox 8 eight-channel audio/CV breakout box launched.
8 September 2026
- The Bob Moog Foundation announces “From the Source” series of livestream events, beginning with Dave Rossum.
3 September 2026
- Audacity version 4 has been released with a host of new features to make audio editing more efficient.
2 September 2026
- SynTesla lays out plans for this and next year: Young synth company SynTesla, founded by Pierre-Jean Tardiveau, has publicised a ‘glimpse’ of what’s likely to come in the next 16 months or so (that’s the rest of 2026 and into 2027). “We’re not letting up” is the mantra before the double page.
- Cyma Forma RND Synth is now available from a few selected partners globally.
- AtomoSynth and MatrixOperator collaboration on a new device – very short teaser video.
- Yamaha launches the GCB compact acoustic grand piano and associated variations including SILENT and Disklavier versions. It comes 16 years after the GC1, GC2 and GB1K lunched in 2009.
1 September 2026
- Tolhuin, an open-source cheap chord synth from Argentina, inspired by Omnichord and Hichord, but designed and developed from scratch as an experimental platform for harmony, synthesis and live performance.
- Morph Studios pocket sized Glide Synth.
- 3D printed piano action faithful to the original: Design by [dovetail].
- Dave Brubeck Baldwin SD-10B studio piano and more to be auctioned.
- 11th Annual Flower Piano to Bring Music to SF Botanical Garden Once More: a dozen pianos will be available for scheduled performance and free play sessions.
- Aethon Granular Transformation Engine plugin launches: transforms incoming audio into dreamy textures, rhythmic pulses, drifting atmospheres, and beautifully unpredictable movement. Create clean, subtle animation or scatter sounds into jittery grains, reversed fragments, spacious clouds, and evolving washes—all from the audio already moving through your track.