October 23, 2026
TED-8, Retromulator 2, Discovery Pro 9.7 and more

The second half of October brings TED-8, a new Oberheim TEO-5 replica, the 2.0 release of Retromulator with editor boards for its cores, new chorus, phaser and unison editors in Discovery Pro and updates across the rest of the product line.

TED-8 (New)

TED-8 is the Oberheim TEO-5 as a plugin, built from thousands of measurements of a real unit. Every knob, curve and effect was recorded and compared with the hardware until both sounded the same side by side.

Features

• Full Replication: Two oscillators with sub and noise, the SEM-style filter, two envelopes, two LFOs, glide, unison, the arpeggiator, a 64 step sequencer, overdrive, twelve effect types and the reverb, all matched against the TEO-5.
• More Voices: 8 voices instead of 5, and a Poly Unison mode that stacks up to 6 voices on each of 8 notes.
• Modulation Matrix: 16 slots on screen, with sources from velocity and pressure to the LFOs, envelopes and oscillator 2.
• Hardware Link: Connect a TEO-5 over USB and TED-8 works as its editor and librarian. Knobs, program changes and sequences stay in step both ways, and all 256 user programs can be backed up to one file.
• Voice Character: Each voice sits a few cents apart and a little louder or softer than the next, as on the unit.

TED-8 runs on macOS, Windows and Linux as AAX, AU, VST, VST3 and standalone. The intro price is $99 for a limited time (regular price $199). Owners of Discovery, Discovery Pro, Corona, OB-Xd 2 or OB-Xd 3 can get it for $49 from the members area.

Retromulator 2.0

Retromulator runs classic hardware synthesizers from their original firmware or circuit models. Version 2.0 adds a control panel for every core, and the 1.11 update before it added the CA-72 Minimoog Model D core, for seventeen cores in total.

What's New

• Boards: Every core except CA-72 and Tracker opens a panel below the rack with all of its sound parameters, grouped on tabs as on the hardware. Controls send the core's own SysEx, CC or parameter messages and follow patch loads, incoming MIDI and host automation.
• Host Parameters: Right-click any board control to link it to one of 128 host parameters, so any sound parameter can be automated.
• MIDI Out: Board edits and what the emulated core sends can be passed to the new MIDI output, to record edits in the DAW or drive the original hardware.
• Editor Only: A core can run without its sound engine and edit the real synth over MIDI out.
• NRPN and Core Select: Every parameter can be set with NRPN, and cores can be switched from MIDI.
• CA-72: Minimoog Model D modelled from its circuit by Idle Foundry, with the front panel, LO, HI and ULTRA quality and .fxp presets.

This update is free for all Retromulator customers.

Discovery Pro 9.7

Discovery Pro is a 4 layer virtual analog synthesizer and sampler. Versions 9.6 and 9.7 add new chorus and phaser models, a Unison Editor with a stereo Super 7, a Minimoog output stage on the Ladder filter and a much lighter HQ filter distortion.

What's New

• Chorus / Phaser Editor: A popup with response and delay plots, a new Juno chorus with the I, II and I+II modes and a new Stone 4-stage OTA phaser. Settings are per layer, with FX presets. Patches made before 9.7 load with the Legacy models.
• Unison Editor: UNISON and SUPER 7 tabs, with a Stereo control that spreads the seven saws across the stereo field while the mono sum stays the same.
• Ladder Filter: The Minimoog output amplifier is now part of the model, and self-oscillation pitch follows the cutoff up to 15 kHz.
• Filters at Any Rate: The Classic, Ladder and Ladder X/Y filters respond the same at every oversampling rate, so offline bounces at higher quality sound like live playback.
• HQ Distortion: A new 2x oversampler uses 58 to 79 percent less CPU per voice and folds harmonics back 33 dB quieter, with drive, tone and brightness unchanged.
• Performance: Faster wave engine playback and bouncing, and SEM filters that use 15 percent less CPU on Apple Silicon.
• Fixes: Automation can be recorded from the editor again, and the square and PWM waveforms of the High Quality engine no longer alias.

This update is free for all Discovery Pro 9.x customers.

Also Updated

• OB-Xd 3.25: New Circuit filter model shaped by measurements of real Oberheim filters. Patches saved before 3.25 keep the Classic filter.
• Blub 0.9: New SEM Filter and MultiFX effects, MIDI Tracker with midi.guide CC maps, MIDI clock out, hardware round trip measurement and safer plugin scans.
• WavePrompt 1.2: Waveform view coloured by frequency, part selection, loop re-cutting from the full render and offline use from the first launch on Windows.
• Roboto 1.3: Italian and Portuguese, new sliders and switches, and a samba in the built-in songs.
• Discovery 6.7.1: Fixed aliasing on the square and PWM waveforms of the High Quality engine.
• MidiKeys 1.9.5: Lower CPU use, with the keyboard redrawing only the keys t

   

   

  October 15, 2026
  Blub, Roboto, WavePrompt and more

  The first half of October brings a new modular tracker, a free singing voice synthesizer, LoRA support and a Windows version of WavePrompt, a Hammond B3 organ in Retromulator, disk streaming in Bliss and updates across the rest of the product line.

  Blub (Beta)

  

  Blub is a new modular tracker for macOS in the style of Jeskola Buzz. AU and VST3 plugins and built-in machines are placed on a canvas, wired with cables and played from tracker patterns and a song sequence. Blub is now in public beta.

   

  Roboto 1.2

  

  Roboto is a new free singing voice synthesizer. Write a melody in the piano roll, type a word on each note and Roboto sings it. The voice is synthesized with no samples. Roboto 1.0 was released on October 3 and is now at version 1.2.

  What's New

  • Languages: Sings in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Finnish and Swedish, with the sounds and spelling rules of each language.
  • Classic Voices: Ten voices from a second formant engine with the sound of 1990s singing software, picked from the voice box or with @voice in the song text.
  • Talk Box: A plucked string replaces the voice and the mouth shapes it, like a guitar or synth talk box.
  • Import and Export: MIDI, karaoke MIDI, UltraStar, LRC and SRT import, AAC and video export.
  • Performance: Phrases start on the exact sample of a MIDI key, Follow transport plays the whole song with the host, and keys on MIDI channel 2 change the sung pitch live with an adjustable Glide.
  • Piano Roll: Box selection, cut, copy, paste and duplicate, and curve points that snap to the grid.

  Roboto is free and runs as a plugin or standalone on macOS, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad.

   

  WavePrompt 1.1

  

  WavePrompt generates loops, vocal phrases and full songs from a text prompt, using the YuE2 music model. Everything runs locally.

  What's New

  • Windows: WavePrompt now runs on Windows PCs with NVIDIA or Intel Arc graphics. The setup resumes the GPU runtime download after a dropped connection.
  • LoRA Support: Push strengthens the chosen genre or voice with a LoRA trained on it, for 14 genres and for male and female voices. Import LoRA adds YuE2 LoRAs from Hugging Face, a download link or a .safetensors file.
  • Arranged Instrumentals: Instrumental songs can plan an intro, verses, choruses and an outro before rendering.
  • Import Memo: The piano roll turns a hummed or sung recording, such as an iPhone Voice Memo, into a melody with matching tempo and key.
  • Songs: An Auto length that fits the song to its lyrics, vocals that follow the chosen key and the chords the backing plays and stay on the beat, and lyric checks in seconds instead of minutes.
  • macOS: The Mac version runs on macOS 14 Sonoma and later. The LoRA pack downloads only when first used.

  WavePrompt is free for Mac and Windows.

   

  Retromulator 1.10

  

  Retromulator runs classic hardware synthesizers from their original firmware or circuit models, now with sixteen cores.

  What's New

  • OpenB3: New Hammond B3 organ core with Leslie speaker, based on setBfree. Upper, lower and pedal drawbars, percussion, vibrato and chorus, overdrive, reverb, three Leslie cabinets, a keyboard split and .fxp presets.
  • Matrix-1000: The voice model was reworked from the schematic: oscillators restart on the edges of the emulated 8254 timers, DCO sync follows the circuit, and the DAC ranges, VCA curves and filter follow the hardware.
  • DX7: Mod wheel, breath, foot and aftertouch now take effect by default, with a setup entry for each controller in the bank menu.
  • License: Buy License and Register are in the None core menu.

  This update is free for all Retromulator customers.

   

  Discovery Pro 9.5

  

  Discovery Pro is a 4 layer virtual analog synthesizer and sampler. Version 9.5 and the updates that followed focus on the sequencers, the filter and the factory sound.

  What's New

  • Sequencer Zoom Window: The Gate and Mod sequencers open in a large editor with a curve mode, a bipolar mode, an OSC1+2 pitch destination, a Gate and Mod link and tempo based note divisions from 1/4 to 1/64.
  • Nordic Filter: Rebuilt from the Nord Lead 2X hardware, running the NL2 filter equations at the hardware's 98.2 kHz clock. The filter menu is split into models and modes.
  • Factory Banks: Every program in all 105 banks was measured and leveled to a consistent loudness, and the banks load with the High Quality or Retro oscillators.
  • Percussion Mode: Each kit is a submenu with its zones, and the LCD steps through zones with < and > buttons.
  • Fixes: Filter keyboard tracking at Full now follows one octave per octave, and a program with a corrupt LFO 2 phase no longer freezes the plugin.

  This update is free for all Discovery Pro 9.x customers.

   

  Bliss 3.28

  

  Bliss is a sampler with VST/AU instrument recording, a Visual Key Mapper, a built-in wave editor and wide format support.

  What's New

  • Disk Streaming: Programs over 256 MB stream from disk, reading samples straight from their source files, including gig and SF2 data, NKI monoliths and DecentSampler libraries. Streamed zones load into RAM on the first edit.
  • Shared Samples: Identical samples are stored once on load and import, and Akai ISO programs load on demand.
  • Per-Slice Loops: Each slice can have its own loop mode, loop points and crossfade, and macro links can follow a single slice loop.
  • Sample Editor: A Spectral waveform view that colours the wave by frequency, Playhead View modes, Paste at, Duplicate Loop and Shift+Click to play from a position.
  • Loading: Host state loads in the background with a progress bar on the LCD, and saving is faster.

  This update is free for all Bliss 2.x and 3.x customers.

   

  Vertigo 5.5

  

  Vertigo is an additive synthesizer with 512 oscillators and audio and image resynthesis.

  What's New

  • Wave Library: A library built from the sample collections already on the computer, including Logic Pro Alchemy and Logic samples, Bliss libraries and the Discovery Pro and Corona wave banks. Picking a wave resynthesises it into the active source.
  • Loop Points: Waves without loop points get an automatic sustain loop placed on the best matching spectral frames.
  • Interface: Wave analysis runs in the background, so the interface stays responsive.

  This update is free for all Vertigo 5.x customers.

   

  Also Updated

  • Discovery 6.7: Fixed the Formant 24 filter, which was almost silent, and filter keyboard tracking. Black keys are drawn in code on iOS.
  • OPL 3.2.3: New Play Mode menu with Poly, Mono and Legato, and fixes for the Attenuation setting.
  • MidiKeys 1.9.4: New keyboard artwork, octave scrolling, a new overlay with Liquid Glass on macOS 26 and darker black keys in dark mode.
  • KeyPad 1.15: New Piano Fader view with CC faders and CC set presets.

  We also redesigned the website with a new navigation menu, soundware pages with designer, free and newest filters, and a new support and knowledge base section.

   

   

  October 1, 2026
  Discovery Pro 9.5 plus four new updates

  Discovery Pro is a virtual analog synthesizer and sampler with 4 layers, 12 oscillators, 16 filter types including Nord Lead 2, Moog Ladder and Oberheim SEM models, SFZ/WAV/SoundFont/DWB/Bliss and Nord Sample Library support, PADsynth re-synthesis and Nord Lead 2 SysEx import/export.

  Version 9.5 adds a zoom window for the Gate and Mod sequencers, with curve editing, a bipolar mode and an OSC1+2 pitch destination. The Nordic filter is rebuilt from the Nord Lead 2X hardware, and the filter menu is split into models and modes.

  

  Sequencer Zoom Window

  • The Gate and Mod steps open in a large editor that fills most of the panel, with numbered steps, beat lines, single unit edits and Shift+drag rotate. The Gate window shows GATE, RETRIG and NOTE OFF rows.
  • Curve mode for the Mod sequencer: double-click adds or removes a point, drag a segment to bend it. The curve is written into the 32 steps and shows on the main display with a glowing dot as the play position.
  • Bipolar mode runs Mod steps from -100 to +100 around a centre line, so the modulation can go below the knob position or the played note.
  • OSC1+2 destination moves both oscillators with the Mod pitch sequence, for arps, bass lines and whole-voice pitch moves such as a tape stop.
  • LINK shows the Gate and Mod sequencers as one, and Shift+click writes retrig and note off marks from the pattern.
  • New Mod presets in six folders: Curves, Pitch Curves, Pitch Sequences, Filter Steps, PW and FM Steps, and LFO.

  Filters

  • The Nordic filter runs the Nord Lead 2 filter equations (two cascaded state variable filters) at the hardware's 98.2 kHz clock, with the NL2 cutoff table, resonance law, per-mode mixing and clip levels. The response matches the hardware within 0.3 dB up to 20 kHz. Sounds already using the Nordic model will sound different.
  • The filter popup is split into a Model submenu (Zero Delay, Nordic, Ladder, Ladder X, Ladder Y, SEM, SEM Raw and Classic) and a list of modes. Presets, banks and automation load as before.
  • Auto Switch LP switches low pass layers to a chosen model and keeps their cutoff frequency. Swap > Bank switches every layer of a bank to one filter model.
  • The Nord Lead 2X, Nord Lead 2 and Lib 1 to Lib 4 factory banks use the Nordic filter and the Retro oscillators.

  This update is free for all Discovery Pro 8.x and 9.x customers. Discovery Pro is available for Windows, macOS and Linux in VST, VST3, AU and standalone formats.

   

  Other recent updates:

  Bliss 3.26

  

  Version 3.26 adds Gigasampler (.gig) import and an import picker for large disk images.

  • Export Bank to Individual Programs writes every program as its own .zbp file.
  • Velocity Curve in the Play Mode menu, saved per program.
  • Third party imports run in the background with a progress bar and can be cancelled.
  • Fixed Akai S3000 samples being read 42 bytes late, which added noise at the end.

  This update is free for all Bliss 2.x and 3.x customers.

   

  Corona 7.1

  

  Version 7.1 improves oscillator hard sync and the oversampling decimation filter.

  • Sync reset lands between samples, removing inharmonic sidebands around the slave partials.
  • New half-band decimation filters, flat to 20 kHz with over 120 dB of alias rejection and lower CPU use.
  • macOS 12 or later is now required.

  This update is free for all Corona 6.x and 7.x customers.

   

  OPL 3.2

  

  Version 3.2 adds a multi-operator mode with up to four modulators and four carriers per note on a pool of eight OPL3 chips.

  • Eight preset algorithms plus Custom, edited on a Yamaha-style algorithm chart.
  • Loads WOPL, WOPLX and OPLI banks and TX81Z, DX21, DX27 and DX100 sysex dumps, with over 9,000 new bank instruments.
  • Master Volume with output meter, and a Saturator with Valve and Tape voicings.
  • Sample-accurate MIDI timing, sustain pedal support and stuck note fixes.

  This update is free for all OPL customers.

   

  Retromulator 1.8

  

  Version 1.8 adds an Oberheim Matrix-1000 core.

  • The original firmware runs on an emulated Motorola 6809 board driving six CEM3396 voice models, oversampled 2x.
  • Banks 2 to 9 load from the patch EPROM, and all 96 patch parameters have a MIDI CC.
  • LFO 1 and LFO 2 can sync to the host tempo or incoming MIDI clock.
  • The iOS firmware picker accepts several files at once.
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