Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Babylon Synthesizer – One Page Wonder virtual synthesizer

18 Oct 2019 in Synths

Babylon packs all its parameters into a single page for people who like to see every knob at all times. The 257 waveforms and 2300 presets will keep you so busy you probably won't need to edit them.

Rare Waves Grendal RA-99 Grenadier analogue synthesizer – first look

17 Oct 2019 in Synths

Rare Waves gives us a glimpse of the prototype of the forthcoming Grendal RA-99 analogue synthesizer, the successor to the RA-9 Grenadier plus the 2TAC Sequencer.

Analogue Pocket: portable gaming with built-in DAW, synthesizer and sequencer

16 Oct 2019 in Synths

The Analogue Pocket is a little powerhouse of a portable, handheld games machine but it also has Nanoloop which they say is a digital audio workstation, synthesizer and sequencer. Sounds like fun!

Kassutronics 2-channel bracelet Quantizer for Eurorack

16 Oct 2019 in Synths

A new addition to the growing range of modules from Kassutronics is a usually designed Quantizer based on the bracelet representation of scales with a lot of creative functionality behind the scenes.

Behringer “W” stands for WTF?

16 Oct 2019 in Synths

Behringer says they've been working on a "W" for 30 years in the latest tease campaign and offer up the slimmest of clues in a very dark and largely pointless video. What the f could it be?

GForce Virtual String Machine V3 goes stereophonic

15 Oct 2019 in Synths

GForce brings stereo playback to their Virtual String Machine along with 3.5GB of new stereo library and they've redesigned the GUI for higher density screens and routed the LFO to the filter.

USTA: the impossibly versatile 4-track orbital sequencer from Frap Tools

14 Oct 2019 in Synths

USTA is packed full of a ridiculous amount of features and creativity. I wonder how long it takes to become as proficient as the person in the video with all that button-pushing and knob-twiddling?

UVI goes infinite with Falcon 2 Hybrid Synthesizer

10 Oct 2019 in Synths

Falcon 2 decides that having every kind of synthesis and sampling is not nearly enough and removes all boundaries to let you play with infinite sonic possibilities. Sounds like fun!

Behringer Pro-1 and Crave are on their way and open for preorders

10 Oct 2019 in Synths

The eagerly awaited Pro-1 and Crave analog synthesizers are on their way. The first 1,000 units should land in Europe in the next few days and you can now preorder!

Tranzient: making music in virtual reality – are we there yet?

09 Oct 2019 in Studio

Tranzient from AliveIn Technology offers an immersive music-making environment in VR. Triggering loops, sequencing synthesizers and playing drums in real-time is just the start - this could be huge.

Cosmotronic Dimensions: a multi dimensional cosmic choir complex oscillator

09 Oct 2019 in Synths

Cosmostronic were showing Dimensions at Synthfest over the weekend. They are calling it a multi-dimensional cosmic choir which is the best description of an oscillator I've heard in ages.

Sampleson gets playful and intuitive with THINGS: the synth for fun times

08 Oct 2019 in Synths

THINGS is a fun virtual instrument that gives you a great place to play while generating surprisingly cool sounds, modulating rhythms and weird noises.

Waldorf STVC String Synthesizer and Vocoder is available now

08 Oct 2019 in Synths

Somewhat in the shadow of the release of Kyra, the Waldorf STVC String Synthesizer is here to show us how to do the old string/vocoder thing properly.

DPW MÖG D-2 4-band distortion for crunching your guitar through your Eurorack

07 Oct 2019 in Synths

DPW was showing their newly released MÖG D-2 4-band distortion and SH-1 Spectral Enhancer at Synthfest this year where you can plug your guitar into one and shape the harmonics and transients in the other.

ResonHeart: An acoustic sound generator with a mechanical soul

03 Oct 2019 in Synths

The physical modelling in Xhun Audio's ResonHeart is based purely on the mechanical components of clockwork, air pumps, motors, pneumatic valves and complex resonators. It's a mechanical synthesizer.

More fun times are here with the Yamaha Sonogenic SHS-300 Keytar

03 Oct 2019 in Synths

The SHS-300 is a battery-powered Keytar with a built-in speaker, a dozen sounds and Bluetooth for ultra-portability. Paired with the JAM Function app you'll never play a wrong note.

Ampethron Sci-Fi DSP hardware synthesizer is a year from launch

02 Oct 2019 in Synths

New concept futuristic synthesizer Ampethron is a whole year from its launch date but here are some teaser images and sound examples. Will we be seeing more soon?

Spice up your Elektron Model:Samples with an Oversynth overlay

02 Oct 2019 in Studio

The Elektron Model:Samples is arguably one of the dullest looking groove boxes ever to emerge from Elektron well now you can spice things up a bit with an overlay from Oversynth - that's better!

Buchla Easel Command / 208c Synthesizer awaits your pledge on Kickstarter

01 Oct 2019 in Synths

Buchla Easel Command is their new take on the 208c Synthesizer with many enhancements and layout changes that we first saw last month. It's now available for preorder on Kickstarter.

Qu-Bit Bloom fractal sequencer generates the infinite patterns of life

01 Oct 2019 in Synths

Start with 32 steps and branch off down different pathways of organically generated melodies that flux and mutate while being shaped and scaled into the infinite possibilities of Bloom

The Bass Makkina Tube: Analog Synth from synth-builder extraordinaire Arthur Joly

30 Sep 2019 in Synths

Arthur Joly builds synthesizers, beautiful synthesizers. He has a house in Brazil full of them. His latest creation of the Bass Makkina analog tube synthesizer and it's a work of art.

Dreadbox Chromatic – a rainbow of modules for a fabulous price

28 Sep 2019 in Synths

The Chromatic range from Dreadbox are colourful, fun, useful and are all under €100. Including a VCO, filters, noise, modulation, delay, mixing and modulating (now with video!)

Directional rhythms with the KOMPAS probability trigger generator

27 Sep 2019 in Synths

KOMPASS takes a non-linear approach to triggering and uses probability to generate new looping patterns depending on where you are heading in your three dimensional percussive adventure.

SYNTRX: Synthi inspired experimental analogue synthesizer from Erica Synths

27 Sep 2019 in Synths

Erica Synths has teamed up with Riga Technical University to develop SYNTRX a synthesizer inspired by the look and feel of the EMS Synthi AKS but with a digital martix on an analogue heart.