https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/teenage-engineering-stop-making-synths https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/teenage-engineering-stop-making-synths Founder Jesper Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety he has told staff Teenage Engineering plans to stop making synthesizers, OP-1 included. No product has been discontinued and firmware updates are still shipping, so the real question for owners is what support looks like when the synths stop. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers music-techteenage-engineeringsynthesizersfirmware https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/arturia-astrolab-2-free-update-front-panel-editing https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/arturia-astrolab-2-free-update-front-panel-editing Arturia's free AstroLab 2.0 firmware adds front-panel sound editing and 60+ new sounds to a keyboard line that first appeared in April 2024. It's a good example of hardware getting better after purchase, and it shows that the real product is Arturia's software catalogue. Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers releaseshardwarearturiafirmwaresynths https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/elektron-outbox-8-syntakt-twinshot https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/elektron-outbox-8-syntakt-twinshot Elektron's $349 Outbox 8 adds eight audio or CV outputs to a groovebox, and free Syntakt firmware has added Twinshot, a two-sample player, plus Outbox 8 support. For a Syntakt owner the pairing fixes the two things the box couldn't do. If you record into a DAW, you can probably skip the breakout box. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers releaseshardwareelektroncvfirmware