Synths
Dreadbox Hades: The DIY Kit that lets you roll your own
09 Oct 2017 · Fancy building yourself an evil little bass synthesizer? Dreadbox have re-released the Hades as a complete DIY kit in a cardboard case for a very attractive price. Go get your soldering iron.
SynthFest UK 2017: show report
09 Oct 2017 · Sheffield hosted the second UK SynthFest on the 7th October presented by Sound On Sound magazine. I walked the floor, played with all manner of synths and noise machines and met the people who made them.
Grow your own soundscapes in the Folktek Resonant Garden
09 Oct 2017 · The culmination of 10 years of cultivating vibrational interfaces the Resonant Garden pollinates manipulated strings through Alter DSP effects engines to seed beats, glitches and ethereal soundscapes.
Erica Synths spectral analysing Black Dual VCF is now available
06 Oct 2017 · First seen at Superbooth the Black Dual VCF with fabulous 16 band spectral analyser LED strip is now available from Erica Synths. Dark, growly filtering x 2.
Vixen: a mixer for Korg Volcas gets Kickstarted and open for preorders
05 Oct 2017 · Vixen is an 8 channel mixer designed for mixing and powering up to 8 Korg Volcas. A great idea, great features at a keen $219 preorder price point in a weird coloured case.
Mutable Instruments discontinue Clouds Texture Synthesizer module
04 Oct 2017 · The Mutable Instruments carnage continues with the announcement that Clouds, the granular texture synthesizer module found in everyone's Eurorack is discontinued.
Mutable Instruments Clouds and Braids as free Max4Live devices
04 Oct 2017 · Timo Rozendal has released Mutated Texturizer and Mutated Macro Oscillator, free Max4Live versions of Mutable Instruments' Clouds and Braids Eurorack modules.
Genos: Yamaha’s next generation digital workstation keyboard
02 Oct 2017 · Be a musical magician at any party with this ultimate automatic music making machine from Yamaha. Genos will inspire and intensify your musical creation and performance.
SynthFest UK will have a Roland Boutique D-05 to play with
02 Oct 2017 · Roland have announced that they have chosen SynthFest UK show for the first UK outing of the new Boutique D-05 Linear synthesizer. It's this Saturday 7th October in Sheffield.
Expert Sleepers General CV module brings GM sounds to Eurorack
28 Sep 2017 · Has General MIDI really been the thing missing from my modular setup? With General CV you can now have Orch Hits, Voice Oh's, Alto Sax and Ocarina patched, CV controlled and modulated.
Softube launches Buchla 259e Twisted Waveform Generator for Modular
27 Sep 2017 · The Buchla 259e is the first officially licensed Buchla software emulation. It's called the Twisted Waveform Generator and there's plenty of sonic abuse in here that makes it worthy of the name.
TheoryBoard: colourful scale and chord generating MIDI controller
27 Sep 2017 · A very dull name for an awesome looking chord and scale generator. TheoryBoard is a MIDI controller that can generate every known chord to every known scale and let you play melodies without missing a note.
Circuit 1.6 brings panning, FX muting, pad dimming and micro steps
27 Sep 2017 · Novation grant more wishes with the Circuit 1.6 update including the long-awaited ability to pan, mute effects, put in some micro steps and dim the lights.
Leak! Make Noise derive Contour and Dynamix modules out of the 0-Coast
26 Sep 2017 · Everyone loves the 0-Coast semi-modular synthesizer from Make Noise and now it seems they've pulled out a couple of sections to create the Contour and Dynamix Eurorack modules. Now with official video!
Wired Heart: lovable 6 oscillator digital touch synthesizer
26 Sep 2017 · Wired Heart is a very affordable digital synthesizer with touch sensor control and light sensitivity. Just another weird maker of noise or is it lovable enough to stay in your hands for more than a minute?
DoubleDrummer: 12-voice drum synth and sample player
23 Sep 2017 · Audiothingies have revealed their forthcoming DoubleDrummer drum synthesizer and sample player. 6 synthesized drum sounds alongside sampled kits in a neat desktop box.
uClouds packs Mutable Instruments Texture synth into 8HP
23 Sep 2017 · uClouds or Micro Clouds takes Mutable Instruments classic texture synthesizer module and squeezes it down to a more space efficient size while retaining all the functionality.
Krankie: the ultimate hipster music making machine
21 Sep 2017 · Get down to truly authentic music production by hand punching your own paper piano roll and hand-crank it through the Krankie, while keeping one hand free for your fair-trade-walnut-double-shot-mocha-latte.
Syntronik brings 17 classic synths to the iPad for free
20 Sep 2017 · IK Multimedia has brought their bundle of legendary synths to the iPad with 17 free instruments. More are available with in-app purchasing but isn't it a slap in the face for desktop users who pay far more?
Kurzweil SP6 adds one more stage piano to their massive range
20 Sep 2017 · Kurzweil release yet another stage piano in the "powerfully simple" SP6. It's a stage piano with 2GB of sounds, great weighted action, and good bit of dated looking chunkiness.
OB-X Neo teaser video has us swimming in thick pads
19 Sep 2017 · A OB-X Neo 2 x 8 voice synthesizer module fades in from the gloom. Not quite clear enough to tell if it's a render, a plug-in or hardware. Is it from Tom Oberheim or is Behringer behind it?
Mod your Moog Minitaur into Eurorack with this DIY conversion kit
19 Sep 2017 · Grab a soldering iron and let's invalidate our warranty. This well put together DIY conversion kit will hack your Moog Minitaur into a 48HP Eurorack synthesizer voice. Not for the faint-hearted.