Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

First listen to the Moog Drum Machine you’ll never own

27 Apr 2017 in Synths

Moogfest is nearly here and there are still spaces in the DIY workshop to build an exclusive DFAM Moog Drum Machine that no one else will ever own. Or just watch the video and weep like the rest of us.

Superbooth 2017 Show Report: Why this is the most exciting music trade show on Earth

26 Apr 2017 in Synths

Here's a round-up of the cool things our resident synth specialist Robin Vincent found at the electronic music technology synth-fest that is Superbooth 2017.

Superbooth 2017: Befaco Hexmixer nails the Eurorack mixer

25 Apr 2017 in Synths, Studio

How do you fit a proper mixer into 3U Eurorack? The Hexmixer and Hexpander from Befaco have solved it in a 6 channel mixer that fits vertically in two rows.

Superbooth 2017: Erica Synths Drum Sequencer Computer

25 Apr 2017 in Synths

Erica Synths reveal a computerised, old-school, keypad driven 16 channel Drum Sequencer that will trigger your whole world. Love that keypad - classic!

Superbooth 2017: Erica Synths Black Dual VCF

24 Apr 2017 in Synths

Erica Synths has a new Black Dual VCF that features two identical filters in series or parallel with a rather nice LED spectrometer.

Get patching with SoloRack’s 37 virtual modular modules

24 Apr 2017 in Synths

SoloRack puts a virtual Eurorack into your DAW with 37 modules to patch together for modular bliss. Is it more modular than Softube's Modular?

Superbooth 2017: Mini Modor, the NF-1m synthesizer

21 Apr 2017 in Synths

Modor have taken their NF-1 digital synthesizer and squeezed it into a much more portable box and called it the NF-1m.

Superbooth 2017: Nerd Seq – it’s a Eurorack Tracker sequencer

21 Apr 2017 in Synths

Get your geek on with Nerd Seq, a hybrid Music Tracker sequencer for Eurorack with sample sequencing and cartridge expansion.

Superbooth 2017: Bastl Thyme robot operated digital tape machine

21 Apr 2017 in Studio

Bastl digitise the tape delay and let you play in the space between "Thyme" based effects (see what they did there?)

Superbooth 2017: 4ms reveal Spherical Wavetable Navigator mothership

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

6 independent wavetable oscillators, with 6 independent wavetable LFO's operating within a sphere of wavetables. I think you need a Spherical Wavetable Navigator.

Superbooth 2017: Rossum Electro-Music Assimil8or Phase Modulation Sampler

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

Prepare yourself as multi-timbral phase modulation sampling hits Eurorack in the shape of Rossum Electro-Music's Assimil8or

Superbooth 2017: Crusher-X granular synthesis reaches level 6

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

Crusher-X granulates audio in elaborate ways for sound designers and guitarists. The new version brings masses of reverb, tuning and modulation.

Music Thing modules are in there somewhere

Superbooth 2017: Music Thing Modular demos 5 new modules

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

Music Thing has a bunch of prototypes on the Thonk stand including the Startup headphone amp, mixer, LFO, a Graphic EQ, Spring Reverb 2, Magnetophon and Chord Organ.

Superbooth 2017: U-He models the Prophet-5 as Repro-5

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

U-He develop their Repro-1 monosynth into the polyphonic Repro-5 with quite stunning results. Apparently inspired by an old Sequential Circuits synthesizer.

Superbooth 2017: What’s Yamaha inventing with the Reface Robot?

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

Yamaha are showing a Reface CS being played and manipulated by a robot interface designed by Anno Labs. Is the Reface Robot science fiction or an exciting new direction?

Superbooth 2017: Eowave Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

A nebulous and shimmering sound of exquisite and unfamiliar timbres - this is the Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer

Superbooth 2017: Eloquencer, the Eurorack sequencer that controls chance

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

Winter Garden are presenting their Eloquencer, an 8 track sequencer dripping with per-step probability and pattern generating randomness.

Superbooth 2017: Behringer DeepMind 12 Desktop and DeepMind 6

19 Apr 2017 in Synths

Behringer's Midas team reveal the 2 "new" synthesizers promised for Superbooth. We have a DeepMind 12 Desktop and a DeepMind 6 - Oh, I'm slightly disappointed.

Superbooth 2017 Leak! Novation Circuit Mono Station Synthesizer

19 Apr 2017 in Synths

A new paraphonic analogue synth and sequencer box from Novation. The Circuit Mono Station Synthesizer is Novation's second big reveal of Superbooth 2017.

Superbooth 2017 Leak! Novation Peak: 8 Voice polyphonic Synthesizer

19 Apr 2017 in Synths

A day before Superbooth is due to open images of the Novation Peak leak onto a couple of music store websites and the front cover of next months Sound On Sound magazine. Now with video preview!

Superbooth 2017: buzz, noise and previews

19 Apr 2017 in Synths, Studio

Superbooth 17 is a synthesis and music technology festival held in Berlin between 20th-22nd April. Here's all the news, previews and leaks of what we can expect to see at the show. (Updated 19/04).

Waverazor: Torturous, virtual future-synth that will cut you in half

18 Apr 2017 in Synths

Behind the neon lies the fiercely digital serrated edge of Waverazor, a future synthesizer for torturing innocent waveforms.

PUSH TURN MOVE – the book for all electronic knob twiddlers

18 Apr 2017 in Synths, Studio

PUSH TURN MOVE is a beautiful book charting the design of music technology interfaces. Just arrived on Kickstarter it's packed full of gear, interviews and stunning photography.

Zetaohm FLXS1 4 Channel 64 Step Sequencer

FLXS1: the 4 channel Step Sequencer from planet Zetaohm

15 Apr 2017 in Synths

With space alien buttons and a rainbow colour scheme the FLXS1 would stand out in any Eurorack. But it's the 4 channels of arps, random and modulating step-sequencing that makes it out of this world.