Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Put some metal in your Eurorack with the WMD Mantic Conceptual FLEX

23 Mar 2018 in Synths

Stop making ambient bleepy nonsense and strap on some serious destruction in the shape of the PLL based Mantic Conceptual FLEX. Unpredictable, untamable and completely mental, just what your Eurorack needs.

The Abstract Data ADE-33 Event Boss is taking over your Eurorack

22 Mar 2018 in Synths

Whatever you put into the ADE-33 Event Boss will come out in patterns, rhythms and unexpected variations. It deals in variables, multiples, probables, logic, phase, gates and triggers and wants to be in charge.

Nektar Pacer: A new footswitch MIDI and DAW controller for hands-free control

22 Mar 2018 in Studio, Guitar

10 footswitches with room for 4 more and 2 expression pedals plus 4 relay switch outputs, DAW control and MIDI control over your guitar rig or software, Nektar's Pacer could be a killer hands-free environment.

SOMA Laboratory LYRA8-FX pulls some of the LYRA8 organismic sound into Eurorack

21 Mar 2018 in Synths

SOMA Laboratory has sliced the effects section out of the LYRA-8 and stuffed it into a Eurorack module giving you a double modulated delay and distortion with some unique cross and self-modulating.

Hermod Modular Brain 8-track sequencer available now

21 Mar 2018 in Synths

The Hermod Modular Brain is an 8 track sequencing hub of your Eurorack that pulls in external synths, your DAW and anything else you want to plug into it. Update - it's available now!

Champagne Supernova pops a glass full of Novachord bubbly into Reason

20 Mar 2018 in Synths

Crackly old Hammond Novachord gets the Rack Extension treatment for Reason as the Champagne Supernova. Perfect for that old sci-fi home movie you're working on.

Future Retro announce Transient(+) updated drum module

20 Mar 2018 in Synths

Future Retro announced back in January a beautiful update to their drum module. The Transient(+) gets a lot of enhancements, bigger memory and a fabulous front panel. Update: it's available now!

Oi, Kant! It’s a sort of angry drum machine thing

19 Mar 2018 in Synths

Alarmingly shaped and worryingly named Oi, Kant! is an angry, mean and bonkers drum-ish machine -whose esthetics presumably arise from a faculty of disinterested judgment.

ALAK is a 4-track polygonal pattern sequencer with rotating shapes

19 Mar 2018 in Synths

ALAK rolls out patterns based on shapes rotating through a wheel of 16 LEDs to mess with 4 channels of Eurorack sound or modulation in a simple and effective module.

This is Not Rocket Science (TINRS) throws a Wobbler

16 Mar 2018 in Synths

If your regular LFO is not cutting it then maybe it's time to throw a Wobbler into your Eurorack. An Advanced LFO with physically modelled shapes, phase modulation and cool lights.

Pure707 emulates the sounds of a specific Roland drum machine

16 Mar 2018 in Synths

Monade has released a sample-based plug-in called Pure707. They say it's based upon the 1985 Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer and we have no reason to doubt them. But there's also more to it than that.

W/ – take the nowness and connect to a future temporal arrangement

16 Mar 2018 in Synths

The W/ (pronounced "With") module from Whimsical Raps will take you on an 8-hour journey of sampling to discover how future nows and past nows collide, splice, rip and leap through temporal space, or something.

We get our first sideways look at the all new Medusa from Dreadbox

15 Mar 2018 in Synths

Gone is the burnt orange and dark shades of the original Medusa mockup. Instead, we have stylish black, neat knobs and a restrained layout. We catch our first glimpse of the all-new Polyend powered Medusa

You can have it all in the Total Studio 2 MAX IK Multimedia bundle

15 Mar 2018 in Studio

Fancy 94 products, 43 virtual instruments, 16,800 sounds in 179GB, 39 mastering processors and 350 guitar related gizmos? IK Multimedia Total Studio 2 MAX has got you covered.

Build a brand new synthesizer with the Moogfest 2018 Engineer Pass

15 Mar 2018 in Synths

This years' Moogfest Engineer Pass two-day workshop will be building the Sub-Harmonicon a completely new electronic instrument based on some really old electronic curiosities that Moog will make awesome.

Behringer reveal first photo of the Pro-One Sequential Circuits clone

14 Mar 2018 in Synths

We all guessed right, it was a Pro-One that Behringer teased us with a couple of weeks ago. This one looks ready to go unashamedly photographed with the original. This could be good.

NSynth Super: Experimental machine learning Neural Synthesizer from Google

14 Mar 2018 in Synths

The NSynth algorithm extracts characteristics from a handful of sounds to interpolate a gazillion others letting you play in the space between instruments. It's experimental, open source and backed by Google.

Cloudlab 200t Buchla based modular instrument for Reaktor reaches version 2

13 Mar 2018 in Synths

Trevor Gavilan releases a new version of Cloudlab 200t Buchla ensemble for Reaktor 6. It's still free, it's even more remarkable and a fabulous way to get your West Coast thing going.

AI Synthesis AI004 OTA Voltage Controlled Filter

Build your own Korg MS-20 filter clone with the AI Synthesis AI004 OTA

13 Mar 2018 in Synths

AI Synthesis have created a tribute to the Korg MS-20 filter in the AI004 OTA Voltage Controlled Filter. It's deliciously cheap as a kit with a full build guide and those nice red knobs.

Win a vintage Minimoog signed by Rick Wakeman in the Bob Moog Foundation raffle

13 Mar 2018 in Synths

A couple of weeks left to get in with a chance of winning a pristine vintage Moog Minimoog Model D signed by YES keyboard legend Rick Wakeman. All proceeds to the Bob Moog Foundation.

Key Control: Scale and key quantiser for your MIDI controller

12 Mar 2018 in Synths

Key Control is a little box that will transpose and scale your MIDI keyboard with the turn of a knob. 12 scales are on offer with automatic chord generation.

MECHANISM: an artisan Eurorack case with on-board tools and utilities

12 Mar 2018 in Synths

Out of Japan comes MECHANISM, a creative and innovative Eurorack case with a 1U strip of built-in tools and utilities. Check out the twin joysticks plus, LFOs, VCAs, Sample & Hold and CV processors.

Noise Engineering announce Bin Seq and Clep Diaz ready to go

11 Mar 2018 in Synths

Two of the modules Noise Engineering launched at NAMM are now available. Bin Seq is an on-the-fly rhythm generator while Clep Diaz generates clocked modulation sequences.

Crazy8 Beats is now available for rhythm and sequencing fun times

09 Mar 2018 in Synths

A desktop beat making machine with 8 tracks of CV and trigger, two ports of 8 tracks of MIDI and a ton of probability in a neat and desperately cool looking box. You can even stick it in your Eurorack.