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At Superbooth 2026, Enjoy Electronics debuted the Memento, a performance-oriented audio processor built around a multimodal texture engine, dual dynamic modulation sources, bidirectional stereo delay, filtering, reverb, and an expressive touch surface.

The Memento is a desktop audio processor designed to shape and transform incoming audio from synthesizers, drum machines, acoustic instruments, and other sound sources. Its architecture features a multimodal texture engine alongside dedicated bidirectional stereo delay and effects systems, with a gesture-responsive touch surface for direct parameter interaction.

The device maintains separate signal paths for dry input and processed material, allowing real-time looping with undo and redo control, and integrates advanced modulation via two engines that can operate as step sequencers or LFOs.

The processing chain also includes filtering, harmonic excitation, reverb layers, and configurable texture modes such as Multihead, Fragment, DPD, and Deja-Vu.

Features:

• The main processor is centered on a multimodal texture engine with multiple operating modes for evolving sound structures and spatial layers.
• A dedicated dry signal path is preserved through the processing chain and can be blended or shaped at the final stage.
• An overlay loop stage provides variable-length looping for recording, replacing, and reshaping audio in real time with undo and redo control.
• A bidirectional stereo delay engine offers independent left and right delay lines with forward and reverse operation.
• Delay timing can be set in milliseconds or clock-synced with dotted and triplet divisions.
• Delay feedback is adjustable to high levels and can be shaped through dedicated high-pass and low-pass filters.
• A configurable filter stage provides harmonic shaping within the signal path.
• A reverb refraction engine adds spatial depth with additional spectral variation processing.
• Mindscape Textures modes such as Multihead allow multiple playback heads with independent speed, direction, and stereo placement.
• Fragment mode reprocesses signal through variable-sized fragments distributed across the stereo field.
• DPD (Double Pulse Delay) introduces additional rhythmic pulses within the delay structure.
• Selectable internal flow reversal enables inversion and reconfiguration of internal signal paths.
• Two modulation engines can each function as step sequencers or LFOs with flexible assignment.
• Step sequencers provide up to 16 configurable steps for rhythmic modulation.
• Advanced LFOs include classic waveforms and freely drawable shapes via the touch surface.
• A touch-responsive surface captures continuous gesture, multitouch, and pressure data for real-time control.
• Four line outputs support flexible routing and quadraphonic configurations of processed signals.
• Two line inputs
• Connectivity includes CV inputs at Eurorack-compatible levels, two assignable footswitch inputs, and TRS-MIDI input and output.
• USB MIDI is provided for control and firmware updates.

The Memento is available now to pre-order, priced at €749 (normally €850).

At Superbooth 2026, Tiptop Audio offered an update on their new and upcoming Eurorack modules.

New for 2026 is the Tiptop Audio + Buchla 277t Signal Delay, a Eurorack version of the Buchla 277 from the 1970s.

In this video, via Milk Audio, Tiptop Audio’s Gur Milstein discusses the 277t Signal Delay and demonstrates its sonic capabilities. He also previews several of their upcoming ART modules.

Milstein notes that the 277t “is not for the lazy”, but is “super-cool” when integrated into modular patches.

The Tiptop Audio + Buchla 277t Signal Delay is expected to be available in several months, with pricing to be announced.

Anode Labs Bitcrust is a software synthesizer – for iOS, Linux, Mac and Windows – that’s based on a SID-inspired digital voice architecture.

It emulates the classic sound using ‘clean room’ reverse-engineering.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

“Bitcrust’s DSP is written from scratch in C++, against public datasheets and general DSP literature. The 6581 / 8580 architecture is the starting point, not the destination: oscillators, envelope, filter, and the glue between them are designed to capture the SID’s character — the bit-crushing, the leaky integrators, the resonant bite — without trying to be a bit-accurate or cycle-accurate emulation.

Where the silicon is interesting, we lean in. Where it gets in the way of a usable instrument, we don’t.”

An official, ‘switched-on’ style audio demo of Bitcrust:

Features:

• Three oscillators per voice – Thirty-six independent chip instances drive true per-oscillator volume, pan, and individual ADSR envelopes.
• Dual chip-model filter – TPT state-variable filter with simultaneous LP/BP/HP outputs. Switch between the aggressive 6581 and smoother 8580 curves, or crossfade continuously.
• 8-slot modulation matrix – Three global LFOs (7 shapes, tempo-sync, retrig), a dedicated mod envelope, and MIDI sources — 9 sources routable to 65 destinations across the synth, arp, and FX rack with bipolar depth.
• 6-slot effects rack – Drive, Bitcrusher, Delay, Chorus, Reverb, Compressor, and Limiter. Freely reorderable, per-slot bypass and dry/wet mix.
• Arpeggiator & step sequencer – Tempo-synced arpeggiator (Up/Down/UpDown/Random) and a 16-step sequencer with per-step pitch, gate, velocity, and slide.
• 115 factory presets – Ten categories from basses to pads, with a full browser featuring search, tag filters, favourites, and import/export.
• 14 bundled themes – Retro CRT, neon, beveled, and modern studio palettes — each with its own phosphor glow, scan-line overlay, and typography.
• 7 real-time monitors – Oscilloscope, vectorscope, spectrum analyser, 3D spectrogram, correlation history, LUFS loudness, and stereo field — with rail, full-screen, and hidden modes.

Bitcrust is available now, with pricing starting at approximately $1.99 USD for the macOS, Windows, and iPad versions, with the Linux build available at no cost.