Superbooth 17: Special Rolling Report

20 Apr 2017 by Angus Baigent | Approximate reading time: 1 Minute

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Superbooth 2017 is turning out to be a corker: loads of new gear has been announced by big and small names in the synth and audio industries, including Behringer, Novation, Soulsby and a whole slew of others. Catch all the latest news from Berlin’s über-cool synthesizer event right here, right now.

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Superbooth 2017 Show Report: Why this is the most exciting music trade show on Earth

26 Apr 2017 in Synths

Here's a round-up of the cool things our resident synth specialist Robin Vincent found at the electronic music technology synth-fest that is Superbooth 2017.

Superbooth 2017: Befaco Hexmixer nails the Eurorack mixer

25 Apr 2017 in Synths, Studio

How do you fit a proper mixer into 3U Eurorack? The Hexmixer and Hexpander from Befaco have solved it in a 6 channel mixer that fits vertically in two rows.

Superbooth 2017: Erica Synths Drum Sequencer Computer

25 Apr 2017 in Synths

Erica Synths reveal a computerised, old-school, keypad driven 16 channel Drum Sequencer that will trigger your whole world. Love that keypad - classic!

Superbooth 2017: Erica Synths Black Dual VCF

24 Apr 2017 in Synths

Erica Synths has a new Black Dual VCF that features two identical filters in series or parallel with a rather nice LED spectrometer.

Superbooth 2017: Mini Modor, the NF-1m synthesizer

21 Apr 2017 in Synths

Modor have taken their NF-1 digital synthesizer and squeezed it into a much more portable box and called it the NF-1m.

Superbooth 2017: Nerd Seq – it’s a Eurorack Tracker sequencer

21 Apr 2017 in Synths

Get your geek on with Nerd Seq, a hybrid Music Tracker sequencer for Eurorack with sample sequencing and cartridge expansion.

Superbooth 2017: Bastl Thyme robot operated digital tape machine

21 Apr 2017 in Studio

Bastl digitise the tape delay and let you play in the space between "Thyme" based effects (see what they did there?)

Superbooth 2017: What in the world is the Kilpatrick Audio Tungsten???

21 Apr 2017 in Synths

Kilpatrick Audio made a GameBoy for music geeks and called it the Tungsten! It has a color display, quasi-PlayStation controls to the left and right, and step sequencer buttons...

Superbooth 2017: 4ms reveal Spherical Wavetable Navigator mothership

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

6 independent wavetable oscillators, with 6 independent wavetable LFO's operating within a sphere of wavetables. I think you need a Spherical Wavetable Navigator.

Superbooth 2017: PreSonus shows its Eurorack-friendly Quantum audio interface

20 Apr 2017 in Studio

Quantum is the first Presonus interface to have DC coupled outputs for running analog, trigger, or control signals to Eurorack gear. The Quantum is designed to run at low buffer sizes with very low latencies ...

Superbooth 2017: Rossum Electro-Music Assimil8or Phase Modulation Sampler

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

Prepare yourself as multi-timbral phase modulation sampling hits Eurorack in the shape of Rossum Electro-Music's Assimil8or

Superbooth 2017: Crusher-X granular synthesis reaches level 6

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

Crusher-X granulates audio in elaborate ways for sound designers and guitarists. The new version brings masses of reverb, tuning and modulation.

Music Thing modules are in there somewhere

Superbooth 2017: Music Thing Modular demos 5 new modules

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

Music Thing has a bunch of prototypes on the Thonk stand including the Startup headphone amp, mixer, LFO, a Graphic EQ, Spring Reverb 2, Magnetophon and Chord Organ.

Superbooth 2017: U-He models the Prophet-5 as Repro-5

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

U-He develop their Repro-1 monosynth into the polyphonic Repro-5 with quite stunning results. Apparently inspired by an old Sequential Circuits synthesizer.

Superbooth 2017: What’s Yamaha inventing with the Reface Robot?

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

Yamaha are showing a Reface CS being played and manipulated by a robot interface designed by Anno Labs. Is the Reface Robot science fiction or an exciting new direction?

Superbooth 2017: Eowave Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer

20 Apr 2017 in Synths

A nebulous and shimmering sound of exquisite and unfamiliar timbres - this is the Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer