Balmain Fall 2025 ready-to-wear fashion show & collection photos. Designed by Olivier Rousteing, Paris, France, March 2025.

Well, the MiniFreak just got freakier, as Arturia drops another free update for existing owners, and an entirely new version of the synth to boot: MiniFreak Vocoder Edition.

Arturia has given the "spontaneous algorithmic synthesizer" MiniFreak another firmware update. The main new feature in version 4.0.0 is that the synthesizer becomes a vocoder.

View photos of the Balmain Pre-Fall 2025 collection.

Thankfully even Arturia’s cheap controllers have pretty solid keybeds, and the KeyLab mk3 is a pretty big upgrade over those.

The company’s first stage keyboard is just its Analog Lab software instrument in hardware form, but that’s not a bad thing.

Pushing fashion and footwear innovation further, Balmain has teamed up with Space Runners to craft a limited-edition capsule of its popular Unicorn sneakers in both the physical and digital worlds ...

By Fall of 2024, the collaboration of these two French luxury giants will launch under the Beauty Balmain umbrella. Makeup and fragrances will comprise the product range.

Today he’s back with a very different offering. “Vocoder,” the first new Floating Points single since Promises, finds Shepherd returning to the realm of heady, frenetic club music.

The Parisian fashion house and the iconic American doll are teaming up for a limited-edition clothing collection, a line of accessories and a trio of NFTs.

The MicroFreak gets perhaps its biggest update yet with three new oscillators from Eurorack experimentalists Noise Engineering.