Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Midweek Modular: Hackable filters, complex wavefolding and mp3 playing

06 Jul 2022 in Synths

This week Neutral Labs wants us to stick things into a filter, Ebashi Audio has 2 channels of wave folding and we check out a CV-controlled mp3 player

Oversynth overcomplicates Dreadbox Nymphes with overlays

06 Jul 2022 in Synths

Oversynth has produced some overlays for the Dreadbox Nymphes that visualize all the features and parameters in a mind-bogglingly colourful way.

Neutral Labs Scrat: Steiner-Parker filter with hackable resonance

05 Jul 2022 in Synths

Scrat features some patch wire points on the front for swapping out diodes, resistors and capacitors letting you hack into the resonance circuit.

Ebashi Audio Dual Timbre: Complex 2-channel wavefolding

01 Jul 2022 in Synths

Dual Timbre is the first module from Ebashi Audio and involves two individual folding cores with interesting pathways and Buchla-inspired timbres.

SynthToys Moog Studio soft case: Cosy up with your Mother-32 rig

01 Jul 2022 in Synths

The best find of the week award goes to these fabulously cosy soft travel bags for 2-tier and 3-tier racks of Moog's 60HP semi-modulars.

Midweek Modular: The Godfather, DIY mixers & voltage controlled LFOs

29 Jun 2022 in Synths

This week The Godfather sold out on Indiegogo, Erica Synths gives us a mixer to build and AJH Synth has a tap tempo, CV-controlled LFO to play with.

Erica Synths EDU DIY Mixer: Mix 3 channels with distortion

28 Jun 2022 in Synths

The latest module in the Erica Synths and Moritz Klein educational DIY modular series is a 3-channel mixer with built-in diode distortion.

Midicake ARP: Complex parametric MIDI arpeggiator

27 Jun 2022 in Synths

Midicake ARP is a desktop multi-channel arpeggiator that will sync to your sequencer and generate beautiful patterns of arpeggiating splendour.

Enjoy Electronics The Godfather: Semi modular multichannel audio processor

23 Jun 2022 in Synths

Live now on Indiegogo The Godfather offers 4 modular style audio channels with dynamics, filtering, effects and modulation in a tidy-looking 60HP unit

Error Instruments Loopman Field Player: Cassette action in the wild

23 Jun 2022 in Synths

You can now take your cassette tape loops out into the wild with experimental voltage control on the Loopman Field Player from Error Instruments.

Midweek Modular: Chain routing, matrix mixing and Roland filters

22 Jun 2022 in Synths

This week we saw more routing and matrix mixing, a new DSP platform, a Roland filter clone, spikey knobs and Goldsmiths hosts the EMS VCS4.

New AN-X synth incoming from Yamaha?

22 Jun 2022 in Synths

Yesterday Yamaha secured a trademark registration for AN-X and as it pertains to Musical Instruments. Something new or an evolution of a 90s classic?

Ouroboros Alea Taction: Still mysterious but touchable 2-voice synth

21 Jun 2022 in Synths

Alea Taction is a new version of the mysterious Alea 2-voice semi-modular synth but with a new aesthetic and touch plates for added crypticness.

Herbs & Stones Pathways: 4×4 modular matrix mixer that self-oscillates

21 Jun 2022 in Synths

Pathways is modulation, manipulation, feedback, creative routing and weird synthesis. All in a good-looking desktop box with room to patch and tweak. Now available!

Noise Engineering Legio modules spark a new 6HP Eurorack platform

21 Jun 2022 in Synths

With the two Legio series modules, Noise Engineering is releasing a new 6HP DSP platform for Eurorack that will load alternative firmware.

Unknown Devices Raiju: Percussive synth sent to bring punishment

20 Jun 2022 in Synths

Raiju combines a complex digital oscillator, an ADSR envelope and an analogue lowpass gate to produce thunderbolts and lightning in percussive form.

Frequency Central Looking Glass: smaller better featured matrix mixer

20 Jun 2022 in Synths

Following on from Frequency Central's Wonderland we now have Looking Glass which runs with the same idea in a more compact and enlightening form.

MicroDexed: an 80s home studio in a Teensy box

17 Jun 2022 in Synths

Floyd Steinberg is at it again with MicroDexed which offers 2 DX7s, a VA synth, drum computer, piano, audio tracker and effects in one tiny box.

ADDAC System ADDAC809: CV operated Chain Router and effects send

17 Jun 2022 in Synths

ADDAC809 is a dynamic CV-operated I/O router for audio or CV to find paths through 2 different chains before finding its way to a destination.

Roland JUPITER-4: Legendary synth now as a plug-in/plug-out emulation

17 Jun 2022 in Synths

Roland has announced the classically chunky and Compuphonic JUPITER-4 as an ACB modelled VST plugin or plug it out on your SYSTEM-8.

Midweek Modular: Cool cases, matrix mixing, Acid and fader banks

15 Jun 2022 in Synths

There's a new case while 8 faders offer CV automation, a matrix of 64 buttons gives routing and you can build a 303 with a series of DIY modules.

Abacusynth: Spinning wheels of synthesis in a digital physical hybrid

15 Jun 2022 in Synths

Abacusynth is a playful concept synthesizer that draws on ancient ideas and fidget spinners to create a tactile interface to explore synthesis.

Music Equipment Concepts Phrader Bank: memorable CV automation

14 Jun 2022 in Synths

The Phrader Bank from Music Equipment Concepts is an 8-channel CV generator Eurorack module that can record 30 seconds of automation per fader.

AtoVproject cDVCA: Class-D based waveshaping, VCA and filter

14 Jun 2022 in Synths

cDVCA is a new kind of VCA based on concepts inspired by Class-D amplification technology. It offers waveshaping, a trackable VCA and a simple filter.