Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Cultivating sound from plants at Assiniboine Park Conservatory

22 Apr 2018 in Studio

The Assiniboine Park Conservatory is over 100 years old and falling apart. Winnipeg artist Helga Jakobson is taking recordings of the plants bioelectric energy and transforming it into music before it's gone.

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Behringer to clone Roland System 100M and somehow makes Eurorack look boring

22 Apr 2018 in Synths

Uli Behringer shows the modular community his plans for cloning the Roland System 100m and bringing it to Eurorack for €89 a pop. While tremendously exciting it also looks a bit dull and uninspiring.

Pittsburgh Modular reveal new Primary Oscillator ahead of debut at Superbooth

20 Apr 2018 in Synths

Pittsburgh Modular announce their third new thing so far this year after the Microvolt and Sequencer. It's called Primary Oscillator and features cascading analog waveform sculpting. Nice!

Moog reveal the front panel of the Subharmonicon that you can build at Moogfest

19 Apr 2018 in Synths

Fancy a little DIY synth project? Get yourself an Engineers Pass to this years Moogfest and build the remarkable Subharmonicon. They've just revealed the front panel - will it ever be available to the rest of ...

War of the Rings: Neova MIDI controller ring hits Kickstarter as Wave funds 200%

18 Apr 2018 in Studio, Synths

Enhancia's Neova and has fully funded on Kickstarter after a day. Meanwhile, the Genki Wave has double funded on Indiegogo. 2018 is the year of the MIDI controller ring but which one has ultimate power?

Eventide Blackhole extraterrestrial reverb now offers full NKS integration

18 Apr 2018 in Studio

Grab hold of your Komplete Kontrol keyboard with both hands and journey through the Blackhole of extraterrestrial reverberation with Eventides awesome plug-in now compatible with NKS 2.0

Strymon AA.1 Amplifier Attenuator: guitar pedal effects loop for Eurorack

17 Apr 2018 in Synths, Guitar

The AA.1 is a 4HP module that boosts guitar signals up to Eurorack levels and takes Eurorack down to guitar levels forming an awesome guitar stompbox effects loop, or guitar input or master output

Pittsburgh Modular Electronic Sequence Designer to debut at Superbooth 2018

17 Apr 2018 in Synths

A beautiful looking 4 channel, 32 step, CV and MIDI stand-alone sequencer from Pittsburgh Modular will get it's first showing at Superbooth 2018. Could be totally stunning.

Uli Behringer asks for ideas for Eurorack modules

15 Apr 2018 in Synths

With a couple of cool synthesizers under his belt Uli Behringer turns his attention to Eurorack modules. Do we want Behringer modules for $49-$99? If you've got some ideas Uli would love to hear them.

Stargazer: a dual wavetable drone with a load of knobs to play with

14 Apr 2018 in Synths

Stargaze is a "drone synthesizer for the abrasive elite". It's an angry synth, laden with knobs begging to be fiddled with. There's no CV, no MIDI and no distractions, you just have to play it.

Forget the TR-808 trainers what about these new Roland System 500 modules?

13 Apr 2018 in Synths

New Roland System 500 modules spotted at the Puma launch party in Berlin that featured those TR-808 trainers. Confused? Who cares - look, new unannounced System 500 Eurorack modules!

Move over Adidas and let Puma have a go at the TR-808 trainers

13 Apr 2018 in Other

Remember those Adidas TR-808 trainers from last year that you couldn't buy. Well Roland have no teamed up with Puma to offer some trainers that might actually make it to the shops. Thank goodness!

Mutable Instruments Stages: The Modulation Construction Set

13 Apr 2018 in Synths

Stages offers 6 programmable segments of CV modulation that can combine into envelopes, loop into LFOs and step into sequences. Mutable Instruments continue to define the modular story.

Livestock MAZE routing and mixing matrix module now available for preorder

12 Apr 2018 in Synths

MAZE is a 4 x 4 matrix of audio and CV routing with saveable patches that you can morph between and select via CV. Live muting and preset switching make for a very performance orientated patching machine.

PATCH & TWEAK: Exploring Eurorack for the modular curious

12 Apr 2018 in Synths

Following the success of PUSH TURN MOVE author Kim Bjørn is launching a second book on Kickstarter called PATCH & TWEAK - Exploring Modular Synthesis. Your coffee table has never looked so good.

Musikmesse 2018: Elka Panther – a seriously fruity organ

11 Apr 2018 in Synths

The cool orange organ that wanted to sound like every 60's classic organ sound is revived and modelled into a thrilling virtual instrument. The Elka Panther is like a Farfisa/Vox hybrid with some serious bass.

Musikmesse 2018: Camelot manages hardware and VSTi’s for live performance

11 Apr 2018 in Studio

Camelot provides a cross-platform management, hosting and MIDI/Audio routing for live performance for not just virtual instruments and effects but hardware instruments too. It will even pull all the presets in.

Musikmesse 2018: Playtronica – an interactive, immersive digital playground

11 Apr 2018 in Synths

Through motion sensors, induction, conduction and touching fruit you can trigger nodes that play notes and generate tunes from playful interaction. Playtronica pulls everyday objects into electronic music.

Musikmesse 2018: StudioLogic Mixface USB MIDI controller

11 Apr 2018 in Studio

A MIDI and DAW controller designed to host a USB keyboard and direct it to 4 zones of control via Bluetooth and USB. Control your iPad and computer from one place. Ideal for the Studiologic SL88.

Musikmesse 2018: Nord Piano 4 – this time it’s personal

11 Apr 2018 in Synths

We thought the Nord Piano 3 was the pinnacle of all red pianos, but just two years later the virtually hammered machine returns as the Nord Piano 4. It's red, it's seamless, it has crossfades and filters.

Musikmesse 2018: CHRT analog monophonic valve synthesizer designed for blowing

11 Apr 2018 in Synths

A gloriously shiny valve based monophonic synthesizer designed for a wind controller to produce a uniquely expressive and electronic sound. The tubes are used at every stage to create the sound.

Tracktion BioTek 2 public beta oozes out of the undergrowth

10 Apr 2018 in Synths

Tracktion has released the public beta of BioTek 2. It's a new evolution of their organic/mechanic hybrid virtual synthesizer and brings new oscillators and presets by Richard Devine.

Polyphonic Solina strings in your Eurorack? Meet StringTheory

10 Apr 2018 in Synths

Make Synths Not War has created the StringTheory module that brings 4-voice Solina Strings into your Eurorack. It's played by MIDI, not CV which won't suit everyone but makes it very good value.

Zen Delay: Are Ninja Tune getting into desktop effects boxes?

10 Apr 2018 in Studio

A bunch of photos of an unannounced prototype desktop effects box emerge. The Zen Delay has record labels Ninja Tunes name on it, an Erica Synths flavour, a filter, drive and nice fat tube.