As you've no doubt noticed, things are very, very quiet in music land at the moment. If you've invented anything cool, please launch it as soon as possible. So I was very excited to read Peter at CDM's report about Harmonical, a new free soft synth from Nial Moody (the guy who build a MIDI guitar pedalboard from wood and joystick parts). Peter spotted that Harmonical is very, very loud, but I'm more interested in the fantastic 3D spinning patterns it makes (and, less so, by the way it crashes my PC whenever I put the 'wrong' settings in). It sounds kind of interesting too - sort of FM-synth-gone-wrong. [Product Page]