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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.
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Suno opened a public beta of Speech on 1 Oct 2026, a model that generates a spoken voice and an original score as one track. It is the company's first speech product since Bark, and it points straight at narration, meditation and voiceover, the steady work that pays many musicians' and voice actors' bills. Suno hasn't said where the voices come from.
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REAPER 7.81 landed on 28 Sep 2026 with experimental dark mode on Windows, the latest of 25 point releases this year that added sample editing, spectral repair and multi-mono FX containers. The licence is still $60 for most independent musicians, with updates through version 8.99.
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Suno's v6, launched on 9 Sep 2026, is the first model it built with Warner, BMG and Believe, and every older model was retired. The labels have deals; the opt-in products that would pay individual artists don't exist yet. And people who had built a sound on v5.5 lost the instrument they were playing.
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PreSonus's Studio One became Fender Studio Pro 8 in January, and the 8.1 update in June built Moises's stem separation, stem generation and voice conversion into the DAW. The catch for anyone who prefers to own their tools is that a DAW you can buy outright now comes with a monthly AI allowance.
Releasesvia Moises Newsroom
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