KORG gives the first public preview of its phase8 Companion App, a browser tool for sequencing the steel-resonator acoustic synth, at ADE 2026's Gear Test Lab in Amsterdam on October 23.
A developer known as rgrvmusic has ported all nine synth engines from Hugelton Instruments' niche Felucca firmware into Korg's logue SDK, turning the microKORG2 and drumlogue into free hosts for virtual-analog, FM, organ and formant synthesis most producers never knew existed.
Sinevibes has released Downgrade and Malfunction, two new effects plugins for Korg's logue SDK hardware built to deliberately degrade and break the signal running through them.
Hügelton Instruments has released Trix, a three dollar plugin that models the analog circuits of Roland's 1973 TR-66 Rhythm Arranger, its second vintage drum machine clone this month after Kepra.
References to two unannounced Behringer clones, a Korg Mini Pops 7 style rhythm box and a Yamaha CS-80 inspired CS Mini synth, have surfaced inside the company's own Synthtribe software before any official announcement.
Sinevibes has made its full 20-plus-effect collection compatible across Korg's entire 'logue lineup, prologue, minilogue xd, NTS-1, NTS-1 mkII, NTS-3 and microKORG2, ending years of fragmented plugin support between the models.
Korg's new NTS-4 is a $249 six-channel mixer kit with switchable attenuators and built-in effects that lets Eurorack modular gear plug straight into line-level DJ and production rigs.
The Kaoss Pad V arrives with dual-touch XY control, a new Voice FX engine, and a Hi-Z instrument input, but USB-B and RCA connectors in 2026 remind you Korg still has some old habits.
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