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Eternal Research has announced that its triangular instrument, The Demon Box, will be “ready for the world” and on sale for preorders.

Years in development, the Demon Box uses 33 inductors grouped in three triangular channels of 11 inductors to transform electromagnetic frequencies. The Demon Box can be used on its own to create unique sounds or it can be incorporated into a larger setup including as an audio-visual controller. The instrument is perfect for sound designers, composers, artists, and other creatives who want to find new ways to conjure and explore sound. It also offers ample opportunity for visual applications like video synthesis, DMX lighting, and coding platforms like Max, Jitter, and TouchDesigner.

Eternal Research founder Alexandra Fierra explains, “The Demon Box is a physical manifestation of a bigger idea. It’s an idea in contrast to the idea that all the organizing principles we’ve hitherto devised are music, and all that is not part of that is noise.” She adds, “Our goal is to bridge the gap between science and music, to turn the forces that made the electric guitar and MIDI possible into an instrument for the 21st century.”

Demon Boxes can mesh with nearly any set up, thanks to their comprehensive connectivity: three mono audio ins, three mono audio outs, a triphonic audio output, 3 control voltage outputs, and MIDI out sending CC and note data via a DIN port and USB-C. Each channel comes equipped with parameter controls, enabling you to mix both the EMF channels and external gear to your liking in real time.

According to Eternal Research’s head engineer Bryn Nieboer, “Stereo is limited. Three channels allow you to sculpt and navigate with panning, phasing, and effects layering, to create an immersive, triphonic sound that sets the Demon Box apart.”

The Demon Box ($999.00) is available for preorder now at this link, and is expected to ship later this autumn. Eternal Research is offering a special discount of $100 off the $999.00 original purchase price of The Demon Box that runs September 5- 13, 2025. The offer can be used once per Demon Box transaction with the code DEMON33.

The Demon Box and other Eternal Research projects will be part of this year’s Knobcon in Chicago on September 5-7, 2025. They will be available for Knobcon attendees to explore at the Eternal Research booth B400.

WAVS has launched AI Sample Finder, an AI-powered sample discovery tool that enables users to search for samples from its library that are similar to an uploaded audio file.

The AI Sample Finder can be accessed via WAVS’ browser-based platform and its VST/AU plugin, so music-makers can drag-and-drop any sample from their timeline into the plugin to search for similar sounds without leaving the DAW and breaking their creative flow.

WAVS promises that AI Sample Finder will empower creators to “explore and experiment with samples in innovative new ways”, searching for stems, loops and one-shots that align sonically with an existing project and discovering sounds that resemble their favourite samples and synth patches.

Other uses for AI Sample Finder suggested by WAVS include uploading a portion of a reference track to find samples that sound like a particular artist, or even recovering lost samples from corrupted projects by dropping an early bounce into WAVS to find the original sounds that were used.

Alongside the AI Sample Finder feature, WAVS’ library can also be searched and filtered based on categories such as mood, energy, genre and instrumentation. The WAVS plugin syncs up with your DAW project to allow you to quickly and easily audition sounds in the appropriate key and tempo before dropping them into a track.

WAVS is a sample marketplace with an extensive library of over 100,000 sounds, almost half of which are royalty-free. The remainder can be used according to a unique royalty structure whereby sample clearance is only required after a track that uses a sample reaches 1m streams or is released via a major record label.

WAVS is describing AI Sample Finder as an “industry first”, and while this type of AI-based sample discovery isn’t entirely new, WAVS’ implementation of the technology is a little different to its competitors.

Loopcloud offers an AI-powered similarity search via its Loopcloud Sounds plugin that digs out sounds from its own library that are similar to a chosen sample from the user’s library, but this requires the sample to be loaded into Loopcloud’s desktop app before it can be accessed in the plugin – there’s currently no drag-and-drop function available.

Splice’s Search with Sound feature, currently in beta, also allows users to upload their own audio to assist with discovering samples from its library, but instead of identifying similar sounds, Splice’s feature searches for compatible sounds that could be layered into to a project to complement the given sample, based on analysis of its rhythm and tonality.

WAVS is a credit-based subscription service starting at $8.99/month for the Starter tier, $13.99/month for the Pro tier and $19.99/month for the Elite tier. The WAVS plugin is compatible with macOS and Windows and available in VST/AU formats.

Find out more on WAVS website.

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s unveiling of Live 12.3, Ableton has released updates for its Note iOS app and Move hardware. While there are a few differences between these two updates, they share one key headline feature – adding full, unabridged access to Live’s stock synth Drift.

Now, for the first time, Note and Move users have full access to one of Live’s synths complete with every parameter available in the DAW version and the ability to craft patches from an initialised state.

Despite their visual differences, Move and Note share a lot of fundamental similarities. Note, which launched in 2022, brings a stripped-back version of the Live workflow to iOS devices, allowing users to play and sequence MIDI clips as well as sample and sequence audio, plus manipulate sounds with a limited selection of Live’s stock effects.

Move is a standalone hardware device designed as an on-the-go sketchpad companion to Live, although under-the-hood it essentially runs a variation on the Note app.

Both formats control instruments and effects via a bank of eight parameter controls, which are adjusted via the touchscreen in the case of Note and using a bank of eight touch-sensitive rotaries on the Move hardware.

In each case, in order to control Drift, these controls can cycle through multiple banks of parameters for adjusting the synth’s oscillators, filters and modulation tools, along with a top-level bank of macros.

The key difference between the rollout of Drift across the two platforms is that, while it comes to Move as a free firmware update, access to the full version of Drift in Note requires an in-app purchase, although this is fairly reasonably priced at $6.99.

In either case, having access to the full range of Drift parameters is an excellent addition. As Live users will likely already know, Drift is a fantastic-sounding, wonderfully versatile analogue-style synth capable of creating both faux-vintage tones and modern timbres. Particularly when combined with Move’s expressive pads, it can create some highly dynamic and vibrant synth patches.

The Note update is out now, and also adds an assortment of bug fixes and minor workflow refinements (all of which are free, and don’t require the purchase of Drift).

Move’s latest firmware update, v1.7, is available today via public beta. Along with the upgrade to Drift, the update also introduces the ability to adjust the brightness of the Move hardware, and adds a pair of new acoustic drum racks.

The update follows hot on the heels of other recent Move updates. Version 1.5, which arrived earlier this summer, significantly improved the device’s MIDI capabilities and added much-requested sample-slicing capabilities. V1.6, which left the beta stage just yesterday, introduced the ability to reverse samples in Drum Racks.

The Note app is available from Apple’s App Store priced at $/£6.99. Move is available now priced at $499 also on Amazon site. Find out more about Note on the Ableton site, and join the Move public beta here.