Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Strokes 2.0: Euclidean Groovebox and Generative Feedback Network for Max for Live.

22 Apr 2020 in Studio

Rhythms, noises, feedbacking patterns and modulation are the bread and butter of Strokes and version 2 brings in intelligent trigger manipulation, note rotation and Push 2 support.

stg/soundlabs Boat Rocker: Eurorack power supply that drops into a Mother-32 case

21 Apr 2020 in Synths

If you have a Moog Mother-32, DFAM or BFAM you might have dropped them into a larger modular system. With the Boat Rocker you can transform their 60HP empty case into something useful.

Dirty Dan: 3 channels of raw and snotty vactrol-based analog filter and distortion

21 Apr 2020 in Synths

From ST Modular comes Dirty Dan, a vactrol-based filter and distortion that pulls 3 channels of sound through its despicable processes whether you like your distortion soft, hard or just plain dirty.

TiNRS CircularThing Double Drum smashes two drum voices together

20 Apr 2020 in Synths

CircularThing Double Drum is a collaboration with Befaco and is two drum voices fighting and being smashed together to create complex and interesting drum sounds.

Superbooth20 Home Edition: Find what’s on where!

20 Apr 2020 in Synths

Where can you find what's going on with this virtual Superbooth20 Home Edition? Don't worry, we've been tracking it down and will be covering the whole splattering of events. Start here!

Erica Synths Fusion VCF3 vacuum tube and vactrol based filter with recordable motion

20 Apr 2020 in Synths

Next in the fat Fusion line of valve-based modules is the VCF3 bringing softness and light with vactrol-driven resonant filtering and includes mixing, mult-ing and the ability to record CV modulation.

Erica Synths Fusion Modulator: complex, analogue and Synthi inspired

20 Apr 2020 in Synths

The Fusion Modulator is a complex collection of modulation blocks including Synthi inspired looping unipolar and bipolar envelopes, VCA, Noise generation and Sample&Hold.

Korg Collection 2: Korg’s synthesizer history in software form has evolved

17 Apr 2020 in Synths

Originally called the Korg legacy collection and released in 2004 it's an awesome collection of Korg classic synthesizers. 16 years later it gets an update and the recently released Triton.

TomaTek-Audio MMVCF OBX-a filter for Eurorack

17 Apr 2020 in Synths

Coming out of Amsterdam is the handmade MMVCF filter Eurorack module based on the Oberheim filter design found in the OBX-a analog synthesizer.

TheWaveWarden Odin2: Viking synth of the gods – for free!

17 Apr 2020 in Synths

TheWaveWarden has released the new and improved ODIN2 12-voice virtual synthesizer that comes straight out of Valhalla and could protect your music from the inevitable Ragnarok. And it's free!

Modal Synthesis Voice: Mutable Instruments Elements for Buchla

16 Apr 2020 in Synths

From 1979 comes Modal Synthesis Voice, a DSP-driven physical modelling modular voice in 4U Buchla format based on the Mutable Instruments Elements.

“Monster Synth” clone coming from Behringer

15 Apr 2020 in Synths

Behringer is teasing a "true monster synth" with a CAD drawing of the internal circuit boards. The first person to guess what they are cloning will get a one for free.

Arturia’s Keystep Pro 4-track polyphonic sequencer and keyboard controller has arrived

15 Apr 2020 in Synths

At NAMM we saw the launch of Arturia's remarkable Keystep Pro. It's like a Beatstep Pro with a keyboard upgrade and 4 tracks of polyphonic sequencing over MIDI and CV.

Greg’s Harp: Polyphonic String Robot

14 Apr 2020 in Synths

"Greg's Harp" is an extraordinary mechanically and robotically musical device with 3 strings excited in 3 different ways that generate some wonderfully unearthly sounds.

Softube Modular virtualises Vermona RandomRhythm pattern machine

14 Apr 2020 in Synths

Vermona's RandomRhythm is a dual-channel trigger sequencer based on randomness and intuitive control over probability and Softube has assimilated it into their Modular virtual environment.

AI Synthesis AI007 Quad VCA Mixer: good clean Eurorack necessity

13 Apr 2020 in Synths

AI Synthesis is a master of producing decent, useful, unfussy, simple and good value Eurorack modules. The AI007 Quad VCA Mixer exemplifies this by being a perfectly useful 4-channel mixer and VCA.

SpazeDrum: Analog drum synthesizer from the complex realms of Gotharman

13 Apr 2020 in Synths

SpazeDrum is a 4-voice 16-part analog drum synthesizer and rhythm machine packed with Gotharman's effects and filters and more functionality than you could ever need.

Dinsync RE-606 clone of Roland TR-606 now available if you want to build your own

13 Apr 2020 in Synths

The Dinsync RE-606 clone of the TR-606 drum machine is now available in the "Roswell Bundle" kit. It includes the PCBs, pots, jacks and transistors, everything else you'll have to source yourself.

ASM Hydrasynth gets a mutant update and a new Hydramorph morphing editor

13 Apr 2020 in Synths

A new 1.4 software update to the Hydrasynth brings a PhazDiff mutant and new noise generators while a third-party sound design tool will algorithmically morph parameters to new places.

KERMIT MARK III: Quad channel super modulator from Industrial Music Electronics

13 Apr 2020 in Synths

The Kermit Mark III is an audacious study in multi-channel, tempo-synced, morphing wavetable generating, matrix matching, super modulation while somehow remaining coherent and rhythmically relevant.

Superbooth20 Home Edition – visit the synth show from your sofa

11 Apr 2020 in Synths

The annual and awesome Superbooth20 synthesizer show was cancelled in real life but now a virtual version will be beamed to your living room on the 23rd April.

Future Sound Systems OSC2 Recombination Engine

Future Sound Systems OSC2: DNA scissoring, VCA gluing Recombination Engine

10 Apr 2020 in Synths

From the laboratories of Future Sound Systems comes the Recombination Engine they are calling OSC2. It's a wizard 3 oscillator jumble of interconnected positive and negative waves.

ACID BEE: Experimental light controlled bassline creator from Error Instruments

10 Apr 2020 in Synths

ACID BEE is a beep and bassline generator that makes experimental sounds when you do nothing and even better sounds when you play with the knobs, hit the buttons and wave at it.

Behringer Eurorack Go 280HP case ready for preorder

09 Apr 2020 in Synths

The super-wide Behringer Eurorack Go case is now available for preorder and includes an internal 5 amp power supply with 32 bus power sockets for £230.