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Superbooth 2017 Show Report: Why this is the most exciting music trade show on Earth
26 Apr 2017 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Erica Synths has a new Black Dual VCF that features two identical filters in series or parallel with a rather nice LED spectrometer.
Get patching with SoloRack’s 37 virtual modular modules
24 Apr 2017 · SoloRack puts a virtual Eurorack into your DAW with 37 modules to patch together for modular bliss. Is it more modular than Softube's Modular?
Why the iPad is an amazing – and awful – tool for making music
23 Apr 2017 · The iPad is the future of music making happening right now. It's a beautiful machine with limitless musical possibilities! Great. Now, let me tell you why it sucks...
Superbooth 2017: Mini Modor, the NF-1m synthesizer
21 Apr 2017 · 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 · Get your geek on with Nerd Seq, a hybrid Music Tracker sequencer for Eurorack with sample sequencing and cartridge expansion.
Superbooth 2017: What in the world is the Kilpatrick Audio Tungsten???
21 Apr 2017 · 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 · 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 17: Special Rolling Report
20 Apr 2017 · All the hot news from Berlin's Superbooth 17 event, happening right now! Loads of new synths and other gear are being presented by manufacturers big and small alike...
Superbooth 2017: Rossum Electro-Music Assimil8or Phase Modulation Sampler
20 Apr 2017 · 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 · Crusher-X granulates audio in elaborate ways for sound designers and guitarists. The new version brings masses of reverb, tuning and modulation.
Superbooth 2017: Music Thing Modular demos 5 new modules
20 Apr 2017 · 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 · 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 · 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 · A nebulous and shimmering sound of exquisite and unfamiliar timbres - this is the Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer
Superbooth 2017: Eloquencer, the Eurorack sequencer that controls chance
20 Apr 2017 · Winter Garden are presenting their Eloquencer, an 8 track sequencer dripping with per-step probability and pattern generating randomness.
Superbooth 2017: Behringer DeepMind 12 Desktop and DeepMind 6
19 Apr 2017 · Behringer's Midas team reveal the 2 "new" synthesizers promised for Superbooth. We have a DeepMind 12 Desktop and a DeepMind 6 - Oh, I'm slightly disappointed.
Superbooth 2017 Leak! Novation Circuit Mono Station Synthesizer
19 Apr 2017 · A new paraphonic analogue synth and sequencer box from Novation. The Circuit Mono Station Synthesizer is Novation's second big reveal of Superbooth 2017.
Superbooth 2017 Leak! Novation Peak: 8 Voice polyphonic Synthesizer
19 Apr 2017 · A day before Superbooth is due to open images of the Novation Peak leak onto a couple of music store websites and the front cover of next months Sound On Sound magazine. Now with video preview!
Superbooth 2017: buzz, noise and previews
19 Apr 2017 · Superbooth 17 is a synthesis and music technology festival held in Berlin between 20th-22nd April. Here's all the news, previews and leaks of what we can expect to see at the show. (Updated 19/04).