Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Elk introduces low latency online jamming breakthrough with Aloha

12 Aug 2020 in Tech

Elk, the creators of the Elk audio OS has created a new service called Aloha which hopes to enable real-time remote music creation and performance across the Internet and 5G networks.

PROGUE: forthcoming Moog Prodigy and Rogue inspired DIY analog synthesizer

11 Aug 2020 in Synths

JSI has released a video of a prototype PROGUE which brings together elements of the Prodigy and Rogue synthesizers into one compact, DIY and cool looking box.

Das Kleine Fusion: a smaller vacuum pumped Fusion system from Erica Synths

11 Aug 2020 in Synths

Erica Synths has streamlined their Fusion II system into the slightly more compact and perhaps more affordable Das Kleine Fusion that's still packed with tubes and premium possibilities.

RITMOBOX: retro inspired analog drum synthesizer from AVP Synthesizers

11 Aug 2020 in Synths

RITMOBOX is a cool, combat green 5-channel analog drum synthesizer with 8-step sequencing and MIDI. They are only making 9 with the first batch so get on the waiting list now!

Noise Engineering Desmodus Versio stereo reverb and synthetic tail generator

10 Aug 2020 in Synths

Desmodus Versio is less of a room simulator and more of a synthetic tail generator which can take you to unusual places and it's also the first module based upon Noise Engineering's DSP platform.

Revolutionise your synth jams with Bastl Instruments 3-voice Midilooper

10 Aug 2020 in Synths

The Midilooper was one of the coolest boxes to emerge over the virtual stay-at-home Superbooth and it's shipping now. Record your MIDI input, loop it, quantise it and route it to 3 different boxes.

SC-808: a free TR-808 drum machine built on code and running on SuperCollider

10 Aug 2020 in Synths

Yoshinosuke Horiuchi came up with this modelling of the classic TR-808 Rhythm Composer during lockdown and is offering it for free. It can take you inside the coded heart of 808 sound design.

Robaux LL8: 8 tracks of triggering packed into a little Eurorack drum machine

10 Aug 2020 in Studio

Robaux is calling the LL8 the little brother of its SWT16 trigger sequencer and it offers classic 16-step drum programming over 8 tracks in a very neat little package.

Microsoft Surface Book 3 and Surface Go 2

Microsoft Surface for Music Production: Surface Book 3 or Surface Go 2?

01 Aug 2020 in Studio

While the Surface Book 3 pulses with premium power the Surface Go 2 can offer some surprisingly music-friendly stability at an affordable price point. Which one would make for an awesome DAW platform?

Behringer has started work on “one of the most exciting synthesizer projects”

31 Jul 2020 in Synths

Behringer has posted a picture of some old circuit board with the announcement that they have started work on an "exciting synthesizer" - can you guess what it is?

Sequential Pro 3 synthesizer gets Wavetables created by you

31 Jul 2020 in Synths

The Sequential Pro 3 is a delicious multi-filter mono and 3-VCO and 3-voice paraphonic synth that features a Wavetable oscillator they've just opened up to user-created wavetables.

After Later Audio releases 3 new modules: Blend, Tilt and Steps

31 Jul 2020 in Synths

Blend will mix and control the amps, Tilt will function generate and envelope and Steps will burst with random looping stepped CV. Three solid new modules from After Later Audio.

Softwire Synthesis Press Controller for expressing some CV into your Eurorack

31 Jul 2020 in Synths

Possibly the oddest and most intriguing CV generator we've come across is the Press Controller from Softwire Synthesis that uses a chunky "button" to convert pressure into control voltage.

TheoryBoard Thy333 – never play a wrong note again

30 Jul 2020 in Studio

The TheoryBoard returns in a slightly different form called Thy333 and hits Kickstarter as a colourful MIDI controller, composition tool, chord generator and music instrument.

Wooden legs for my Arturia KeyLab 88 MkII MIDI Controller? Yes please!

28 Jul 2020 in Synths

The Arturia KeyLab 88 MkII is a chunky beast of a controller with a fat weighted keyboard but it lacked something to stand on - until now! Here are some stylish wooden legs that are just the job.

Analogue Pocket: Nanoloop infused futuristic Game Boy opens preorders next week

27 Jul 2020 in Synths

Stunningly futuristic portable games machine with built-in Nanoloop sequencer and synthesizer for making music is opening for preorders on the 3rd August.

D&D Modules Elvis Filter, Lord of the Wah and upcoming Heaven 16 sequencer

25 Jul 2020 in Synths

The retro-style Heaven 16 sequencer is the latest in a line of intriguing analogue, handmade Eurorack from D&D Modules that you might not have come across before.

Reaktor Blocks 6.4 update: You can now patch User Blocks into racks

24 Jul 2020 in Studio

Seems obvious but up until now user-made Blocks couldn't use the front patching "racks" concept that was introduced in version 6.3 - but with 6.4 now they can!

Guqin: Magical Chinese 7-string traditional instrument captured in the Neo Orchestra Hybrid Engine

24 Jul 2020 in Synths

The Guqin is often known as "the instrument of the sages" and here Sound Magic has based their modelling on a design dating from the Tang Dynasty 1200 years ago. It sounds magnificent.

Qu-Bit Surface: Physical modelling in an 8-voice multi-timbral Eurorack module

24 Jul 2020 in Synths

Revealed at NAMM but now shipping is the Qu-Bit Surface multi-timbral physical modelling Eurorack voice for plucks, strikes, bangs, chokes and spatialized stereo.

Ghost In Translation: Eurorack Modular with a Teensy MIDI heart

21 Jul 2020 in Synths

An interesting project is underway from Ghost In Translation building a unique modular format based on Eurorack sizing but run on Teensy boards and controlled by MIDI behind the scenes.

Behringer releases images of ARP 2500 clone modules in Eurorack format

20 Jul 2020 in Synths

Behringer has released a bunch of photos of Eurorack modules that appear to be clones of the modules from the classic ARP 2500 synthesizer. Could this be the clone of the most desirable synth ever?

Behringer RD-9 (RD-909) prototype pops up on eBay!

20 Jul 2020 in Synths

While Behringer fans bemoan the delayed release of the RD-9 some enterprising geezer from Stockport has the original prototype for sale - or so he says.