Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Grow your own soundscapes in the Folktek Resonant Garden

09 Oct 2017 in Synths

The culmination of 10 years of cultivating vibrational interfaces the Resonant Garden pollinates manipulated strings through Alter DSP effects engines to seed beats, glitches and ethereal soundscapes.

Erica Synths spectral analysing Black Dual VCF is now available

06 Oct 2017 in Synths

First seen at Superbooth the Black Dual VCF with fabulous 16 band spectral analyser LED strip is now available from Erica Synths. Dark, growly filtering x 2.

Vixen: a mixer for Korg Volcas gets Kickstarted and open for preorders

05 Oct 2017 in Synths

Vixen is an 8 channel mixer designed for mixing and powering up to 8 Korg Volcas. A great idea, great features at a keen $219 preorder price point in a weird coloured case.

Mutable Instruments discontinue Clouds Texture Synthesizer module

04 Oct 2017 in Synths

The Mutable Instruments carnage continues with the announcement that Clouds, the granular texture synthesizer module found in everyone's Eurorack is discontinued.

Mutable Instruments Clouds and Braids as free Max4Live devices

04 Oct 2017 in Synths

Timo Rozendal has released Mutated Texturizer and Mutated Macro Oscillator, free Max4Live versions of Mutable Instruments' Clouds and Braids Eurorack modules.

Microsoft kills Groove Music Pass and pushes users to Spotify

03 Oct 2017 in Other

In a deepening partnership between Microsoft and Spotify, Groove Music ceases it's Music Pass streaming surface and invites users to take their music catalogue to Spotify Premium.

Genos: Yamaha’s next generation digital workstation keyboard

02 Oct 2017 in Synths

Be a musical magician at any party with this ultimate automatic music making machine from Yamaha. Genos will inspire and intensify your musical creation and performance.

SynthFest UK will have a Roland Boutique D-05 to play with

02 Oct 2017 in Synths

Roland have announced that they have chosen SynthFest UK show for the first UK outing of the new Boutique D-05 Linear synthesizer. It's this Saturday 7th October in Sheffield.

ROLI releases a “next generation” Lightpad: Welcome to Block M

29 Sep 2017 in Studio

The new Light Block M features added sensitivity, undulating tactile feedback and a deeper and thicker fingerable surface. Erm... this is a musical product right?

Expert Sleepers General CV module brings GM sounds to Eurorack

28 Sep 2017 in Synths

Has General MIDI really been the thing missing from my modular setup? With General CV you can now have Orch Hits, Voice Oh's, Alto Sax and Ocarina patched, CV controlled and modulated.

Cakewalk tease Momentum: multi platform musical capture cloud?

28 Sep 2017 in Studio

Momentum is a new music capture platform being developed by Cakewalk for all devices, DAWs and operating systems. Could it be a cloud based phone app with a companion plug-in?

Softube launches Buchla 259e Twisted Waveform Generator for Modular

27 Sep 2017 in Synths

The Buchla 259e is the first officially licensed Buchla software emulation. It's called the Twisted Waveform Generator and there's plenty of sonic abuse in here that makes it worthy of the name.

TheoryBoard: colourful scale and chord generating MIDI controller

27 Sep 2017 in Synths

A very dull name for an awesome looking chord and scale generator. TheoryBoard is a MIDI controller that can generate every known chord to every known scale and let you play melodies without missing a note.

Circuit 1.6 brings panning, FX muting, pad dimming and micro steps

27 Sep 2017 in Synths

Novation grant more wishes with the Circuit 1.6 update including the long-awaited ability to pan, mute effects, put in some micro steps and dim the lights.

Leak! Make Noise derive Contour and Dynamix modules out of the 0-Coast

26 Sep 2017 in Synths

Everyone loves the 0-Coast semi-modular synthesizer from Make Noise and now it seems they've pulled out a couple of sections to create the Contour and Dynamix Eurorack modules. Now with official video!

Wired Heart: lovable 6 oscillator digital touch synthesizer

26 Sep 2017 in Synths

Wired Heart is a very affordable digital synthesizer with touch sensor control and light sensitivity. Just another weird maker of noise or is it lovable enough to stay in your hands for more than a minute?

DoubleDrummer: 12-voice drum synth and sample player

23 Sep 2017 in Synths

Audiothingies have revealed their forthcoming DoubleDrummer drum synthesizer and sample player. 6 synthesized drum sounds alongside sampled kits in a neat desktop box.

uClouds packs Mutable Instruments Texture synth into 8HP

23 Sep 2017 in Synths

uClouds or Micro Clouds takes Mutable Instruments classic texture synthesizer module and squeezes it down to a more space efficient size while retaining all the functionality.

Reason 10: At last some new instruments from Propellerhead!

22 Sep 2017 in Studio

Propellerhead announces the arrival of Reason 10. The new instrument drought of 10 years is finally over with 2 new synthesizers, 3 sampled instruments, and a piano. Is it enough to silence the critics?

Ton(e)hammer Rig Pack: Free metal for your Kemper

21 Sep 2017 in Guitar

If your Kemper is not sounding quite rock or metal enough then Ton(e)hammer have 50 free profiles taken from some of the metallist amplifiers around to melt your face off.

Krankie: the ultimate hipster music making machine

21 Sep 2017 in Synths

Get down to truly authentic music production by hand punching your own paper piano roll and hand-crank it through the Krankie, while keeping one hand free for your fair-trade-walnut-double-shot-mocha-latte.

Syntronik brings 17 classic synths to the iPad for free

20 Sep 2017 in Synths

IK Multimedia has brought their bundle of legendary synths to the iPad with 17 free instruments. More are available with in-app purchasing but isn't it a slap in the face for desktop users who pay far more?

Kurzweil SP6 adds one more stage piano to their massive range

20 Sep 2017 in Synths

Kurzweil release yet another stage piano in the "powerfully simple" SP6. It's a stage piano with 2GB of sounds, great weighted action, and good bit of dated looking chunkiness.

OB-X Neo teaser video has us swimming in thick pads

19 Sep 2017 in Synths

A OB-X Neo 2 x 8 voice synthesizer module fades in from the gloom. Not quite clear enough to tell if it's a render, a plug-in or hardware. Is it from Tom Oberheim or is Behringer behind it?