Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Midweek Modular: Buchla Friends, Gardens and Synth Dusters

31 Jan in Synths

This week we saw Resonant Gardens, Harmonic Oscillators, Plectrums, Quasars and something to keep your synths nice and clean.

Behringer Spring Reverberation 636: Vintage Springs in Eurorack space

31 Jan in Synths, Studio

Behringer takes on the classic Grampian analogue reverb in the Spring Reverberation 636, but is the size and shape too huge for Eurorack?

Magpie Pedals Feedback Organ: Abusing microphones to make music

30 Jan in Synths

Magpie's Feedback Organ attempts to answer the question of whether you can make music by pointing a microphone at a speaker. With a clever use of tubes, this is genius-level feedback manipulation.

Catalyst Audio: MIG Series modular steals Soviet Fighter Jet Tubes

29 Jan in Synths

Like Clint Eastwood in Firefox, Catalyst Audio has snuck a bunch of vacuum tubes out of Soviet-era MIG fighters to make Eurorack modules.

Source of Uncertainty: Buchla gets a new source of reissues

29 Jan in Synths

Buchla USA and Roman Filippov of Black Corporation collaborate on reissues of classic Buchla 200 modules through the new Source of Uncertainty store.

Embodme ERAE II: Multi functional Surface of Control

27 Jan in Synths

ERAE II takes the original touch controller up several notches with CV connectivity, hardware controls, super sensitivity and more functionality.

PWM Mantis Hybrid Analogue Synthesizer: DCOs with analogue anger

26 Jan in Synths

Mantis is a duophonic hybrid synthesizer with two driftable DCOs, dual filters and an analogue signal path designed by Chris Huggett. New Details!

4MS Catalyst Sequencer and Catalyst Controller: One module, two faces

25 Jan in Synths

It's one module with a reversible faceplate to give you the phase-based Catalyst Sequencer or macro morphing Catalyst Controller. Inconvenient or pure genius?

Tiptop Audio: Buchla Model 207t Mixer/Preamp

25 Jan in Synths

The Buchla modules keep coming; this time, it's the classic Model 207t Mixer/Preamplifier that can mix modular and bring in line and guitar signals.

Behringer JT-16: First photos of the Jupiter-8 clone

25 Jan in Synths

Behringer releases some shots of the forthcoming JT-16, a tantalising take on the Roland Jupiter-8 and it's looking great.

Abstrakt Instruments VS-1 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer ships four years later

24 Jan in Synths

Four years after it went live on Kickstarter, the VS-1 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer, an OB-X inspired machine, is now shipping.

Midweek Modular: Alia Oscillators, Mega Utils, Big Waves and an Atlas

24 Jan in Synths

This week's Midweek Modular finds new Alia firmware, gets into Mega Milton, enjoys The Wave Transformer and gets interpolated filtering with Atlas.

Korg NTS-1 MkII: Mighty morphing mini-synth gets an upgrade

19 Jan in Synths

Korg's original logueSDK-empowered mini-synth and effects box gets a major overhaul. The NTS-1 MkII gets more oscillators, more effects, a sequencer and an improved keyboard.

ADDAC Swell Physics: Cast yourself adrift on a sea of modulation

18 Jan in Synths

The Swell Physics ADDAC508 simulates the movement of the ocean to generate voltage that follows the bobbing of tethered buoys. Intrigued? Read on.

Korg KingKORG Neo: Behemoth VA Synth returns in compact form

18 Jan in Synths

The rather underwhelming VA synthesizer has returned to terrorise us in a smaller format. Can the KingKORG Neo restore our faith in VA?

Midweek Modular: SideBands, Proximity and Bluetooth

17 Jan in Synths

This week in Midweek Modular we find FM in the SideBander, wave our hands at AIRLECTRON and pump wireless audio into our Eurorack.

Deal: Behringer SWING controller now priced at €65!

17 Jan in Studio, Deals

Behringer rearranges the SWING controller to look a little bit less like the Arturia KeyStep and announces that it's now priced at €65.

Dtronics DT-303: Acid Distortion in Three Flavours

13 Jan in Synths

The TB-303 on its own is never quite enough. Dtronics can blast it with 3 types of novel distortion from the DT-303 Acid Sound distortion box.

Stylophone CPM DS-2: That’s no Stylophone, it’s an Analog Drone Synth

12 Jan in Synths

In a very unexpected move, Stylophone introduces the first in the Compact Portable Modular range of synths: the DS-2 Analog Drone Synthesizer.

Bastl Instruments Neo Trinity: Enter the Matrix of Modulation

11 Jan in Synths

Take the red pill and dive into the rabbit hole of Neo Trinity's six channels of LFOs, Envelopes, recordable triggers and automatable modulation.

Midweek Modular: DXG bongs, Prizma complexities and pulling on Strings

10 Jan in Synths

In Midweek Modular this week we're bonging with the DXG, sequencing with the Prizma MkII and pulling strings of modulation out of our Eurorack.

Outersect Modeler: Trippy Acoustic Modelling born at Burning Man

08 Jan in Synths

Outersect Modeler emerged from classical musician and coder Rob Rayle's experience at the Burning Man festival. Was it the drugs or something more transcendental?

Midweek Modular: Tape scrubbing, Cooking sequences and DJ drops

03 Jan in Synths

This week we make loops with the uTape Scrubber, create 12-tracks of sequencing with Cuisine and play with the Stereo FX and DJ VCF from Erica Synths.