The video, via Elektronick Musick, offers a preview of LaunchCodes, a free virtual instrument for Mac & Windows that’s built for synthesizing explosive hits and basses.
LaunchCodes offers highly automatable wave and noise generators, a fully re-orderable and customizable effects rack, and two LFOs that can modulate nearly anything.
Features:
Wave generator—with four basic wave types, push the oscillator to its limits with fully automatable amplitude & pitch envelopes and four pitch parameters. Craft punishing basses, psychedelic patterns, or whimsical keys quickly
Noise generator—low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass modes with adjustable Q and Coarse on the filter envelope give you a wide palette for expressive percussion hits, mysterious sweeps, and screaming noise
Re-orderable effects rack—a delay unit for creative feedback and foreboding echoes, a reverb unit for huge clouds of fallout, a filter unit for sculpted resonances and bass-boosting, and a fully-editable waveshaper function for your own personal brand of distortion
Double LFO unit—for maximum expression, modulate almost any parameter in LaunchCodes with the four basic waveforms, and control the modulation range and direction on each parameter individually
A big red button—a big red button
Built-in presets to get you going right away, and an easy way to save and browse your favorite patches
Firmware developer Amos Gaines offers an overview of the FR 777, a TB-303 inspired bassline synth that goes far beyond the capabilities of the original.
Initial production of the Future Retro 777 is being funded via a Kickstarter project, with initial units expected to start shipping in May. It’s expected to be available to order in October/November 2026 at $1,199 MSRP.
Developer Stuart Frederich-Smith shared this sneak preview of SampleStack, a native macOS app for managing audio samples for Eurorack modules and standalone samplers.
The application promises to automate and streamline sample conversion and management for a variety of samplers, including:
Intellijel Multigrain
Make Noise Morphagene
ALM Busy Circuits Squid Salmple
Erica Synths Sample Drum
Music Thing Modular Radio Music
1010music Blackbox/Bluebox
Elektron Octatrack & Digitakt
Features:
Browse and organize sample libraries with hierarchical folder view
Auto-detect module type from SD card structure
Validate samples against hardware requirements (sample rate, bit depth, channels, duration)
Convert incompatible samples to the correct format
Non-destructive audio editing with waveform display
Cue point/splice marker editing for Morphagene and Sample Drum
