Underground Music Production News

d16 Group PunchBox 2 lands with a wavetable engine, 909/808/606 modes and multi-stage envelopes. A full breakdown for drum and bass producers.

Teenage Engineering free 2.5 firmware lands USB audio I/O, equal-length auto-chop, sample reverse and an arpeggiator on the EP-133 K.O. II compact sampler.

Bitwig Studio 6.1 beta drops a rebuilt Sampler with Spectral time-stretching, Fragments granular mode and auto pitch detection. Here is what it means for DnB producers.

UVI Rumble splits bass synthesis into three independent frequency engines. Here is what the multiband architecture means for drum and bass and dubstep producers.

Viiri Audio's debut plugin Aava lets you modulate impulse response parameters in real time. Here is what it means for drum and bass texture and sound design.

Rob Papen ships eXplorer-11 with two new plugins: RAW-Kick 2, a three-layer kick drum synth, and FilterField, an XY morphing filter effect built for DnB producers.

oeksound Soothe3 ships with a rebuilt DSP algorithm, zero-latency tracking mode and redesigned controls. Here is what changed and why it matters for DnB producers.

Roland TR-1000 firmware 1.20 is a free update from Superbooth 2026 adding ACB 808 and 909 bass generators, four new Master FX and a rebuilt LFO section.

Polyend unveiled Drums at Superbooth 2026: an 8-track hybrid machine with analog SSI voices, digital synthesis, generative sequencing, and 8 individual outputs. Here is what DnB producers need to know.