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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.
Industryvia Highsnobiety
Since 6 Oct 2026, Google Flow Music lets producers describe an instrument or effect in plain language and load it into their DAW as a VST3 or AU plugin. It is macOS-only, limited to synth and effects processing, and runs inside a Google host plugin, which matters more than the launch framing suggests.
Releasesvia Google
Moises has turned its stem-separation app into a browser workspace with multitrack recording, MIDI, generated parts, private voice models and an agent, and is plugging the same tools into Fender Studio Pro, UA LUNA and SoundCloud. The training promise is unusually firm; the terms on outputs and storage deserve a closer read.
Releasesvia Moises Newsroom
Demucs, the open-source separation model that came out of Meta's research lab, still runs well on an ordinary laptop. Here is how to install it from the maintained fork, what the quality trade-offs are, and why a demo or a client's session is better split at home than on a free website.
AIvia Meta / GitHub
Two NIME 2026 papers and Berklee's ABLE Assembly show where accessible instrument design is heading. Generative AI helped a disabled co-designer sketch a bespoke instrument but failed at physical fit, while a kit built from a generic gamepad, 3D prints and an old Android phone cost about INR 3,600 in rural India.
Industryvia NIME 2026 Proceedings (Aynsley, Barker, Warner, Meckin, Mitchell)
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