Steinberg is marking 30 years of the VST format by making HALion 7.5 a free update, reviving five of its classic instruments as free VST3 plugins, and cutting up to 60% off its catalog through August 24.
Arturia has released Pigments Play, a free streamlined version of its flagship Pigments synth, carrying all six synthesis engines, 68 filter modes and 100 curated presets including house-specific patches.
Pittsburgh Modular has teased the Lifeforms SV-2, the successor to its retired, cult-favorite SV-1 semi-modular synth, with a full specs reveal scheduled for August 11, 2026.
Police shut down the same illegal after-party at Ibiza's Casa Paola villa twice within 24 hours on July 28-29, but neither the six-figure fines already on the books nor a standing court demolition order have stopped the villa's underground party economy.
The scrunched nose, squinted eyes and clenched jaw ravers pull on a heavy groove isn't disgust: researchers trace it to a dopamine surge in the brain's reward circuit and to sub-bass frequencies hijacking the body's own balance system.
Unfiltered Audio has released Sinusoidal Run Rhythm, a 39.95 euro plugin that builds groove out of six interfering sine waves instead of a standard LFO or step sequencer.
ZAK Sound's RocketVerb, an algorithmic reverb whose tails are shaped by 38 profiles derived from public space audio and astronomical sonifications, is free with a perpetual license through August 22, 2026, then $39.
Rave The Planet Parade returns to Berlin on August 15, 2026 for its 5th edition, registered as a political demonstration, not a party, with Love Parade founder Dr. Motte leading a route from Brandenburg Gate to Großer Stern.
Dutch boutique maker Vannes Devices has unveiled OBSIDIAN, its first fully self-designed instrument: a semi-modular analog synth pairing West Coast style oscillators with a continuously morphing multi-mode filter.
The Usual Suspects has put JADE, a free ROM-accurate simulator of the Roland JD-990 'Super JD', into public alpha for its Discord supporters, ahead of a wider release.
Overmono release their second album, "Pure Devotion," on XL Recordings on August 7, an 11-track record built from re-amped tape, damaged speakers and guest turns from John Joseph Holt, Kindora, Ruthven and Rock Floyd.
BBC Radio 6 Music launches "Rave Forever", a month-long Friday series tracing Black British rave and dance culture decade by decade, starting August 7 with the 1980s roots of soundsystem culture and acid house.
A Pete Tong DJ Academy survey of 15,000 DJs and producers found that 61% now believe social media following matters more than musical skill, and 31% have considered quitting music altogether.
ConvertWithMoss, the free open-source sample-format converter built by German developer Jürgen Moßgraber, has shipped version 20 with read/write support for Roland's SP-404mk2, E-mu's Emulator III/IIIX/ESI and Emulator IV/X sampler banks, and Arturia's Synclavier V, plus new LFO modulation and a batch-conversion interface.
Vermona has opened preorders for the drumDING, its first new standalone instrument in years, a hybrid analog drum synth and 6-track sampler built around a single voice instead of separate kick, snare and hat channels.
US visa processing for touring O-1 and P-1 artists has stretched past a year in 2026, and a $2,965 expedite fee now decides who can afford to play American clubs, a system that structurally favors festival headliners over underground house and techno DJs.
Sziget has exited KKR-backed Superstruct Entertainment's ownership and reverted to founder Károly Gerendai, nine years after selling it a 70 percent stake, days before its reduced five-day 2026 edition opens on Budapest's Óbuda Island.
HAAi's new single 'Ignition,' featuring Greek producer Echonomist, sets lyrics about growing up gay in a remote Western Australian mining town to a breaks track built for the club, ahead of her October 9 album 'DIGITiSE' on Mute.
Kieran Foster, the British developer behind the influential illformed Glitch and Glitch² plugins, has died at 47, and friends have released Glitch² as freeware with new VST3 support in his memory.
AEON, Ibiza's nightlife business association, alleges the airport's terminal expansion could include a full unlicensed nightclub, and Aena has demanded a public retraction, denying any such plan exists.
Seattle newcomer Hermetic Modular has launched Alchemy Lab, a field-programmable Eurorack platform whose firmware and SDK are open source under an MIT license, starting with the Echoa delay/reverb and Spagyros performance FX modules.
Full Bucket Music's FB3, a free plugin coming soon for Windows and macOS, recreates the 1986 Kawai K3's hybrid additive-wavetable engine in VST, VST3, AU, CLAP and AAX.
Resident Advisor is marking its 25th anniversary with RA25: a ten-city world tour across five continents, a Velocity Press anthology of its own journalism called Front Left, and an archival editorial project, launching September 25, 2026 in London.
1010music's free firmware 1.5 update for the Bento sampler adds a slicing-and-granular Shredder engine and seven XY-pad DJ effects, per Synth Anatomy.
