Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

VERSELAB MV-1: Has Roland finally cracked the All-In-One Song Production Box?

Cool, compact and clever: VERSELAB MV-1's new approach to music production has it all: patterns, sounds, effects and vocal recording. A new standard?

BCR32: Behringer to work with Zaquencer to bring back the BCR2000 as a sequencer

09 Jan in Synths

The return of the BCR2000 rotary MIDI controller is confirmed and reworked as the BCR32 to include the Zaquencer firmware that turned the original into a sequencer.

LA Circuits: Buchla styled Eurorack ready to launch

08 Jan in Synths

A range of strikingly designed Eurorack modules coming from LA Circuits who are unafraid to fill your entire rack with massive modules and massive functionality.

Wavefonix Poly-8 VCO brings CEM3340 based polyphony to Eurorack

06 Jan in Synths

Wavefonix has released the first glimpse of their forthcoming Poly-8 range of polyphonic Eurorack modules with the massive Poly-8 VCO and there's much more to come.

A new synth from Hammond? What are they up to?

04 Jan in Synths

Hammond, famous for their organs, posted an intriguing video on the 1 January teasing us with something "coming soon". OK, we'll bite.

Grit and Gain from British Noise Electronics

04 Jan in Synths

British Noise Electronics introduces the beautifully serious-looking Grit Analog Filter and Gain Stage Amplifier both dripping with saturation.

Behringer is working on a RSF Kobol synthesizer clone

04 Jan in Synths

While wishing us all a Happy New Year Behringer posted an image of a prototype Kobol clone having a little party by itself.

Synths in miniature: The extraordinary work of Ronaldo Lopes Teixeira Rolt

01 Jan in Synths

Ronaldo is a graphic designer and maquette (model) maker who produces exquisitely hand-made models of classic synthesizers. We asked him to tell us about it.

Leak! Tracks and Rhythm: New Circuits from Novation?

31 Dec 2020 in Synths

An online store accidentally published photos of what looks like two new Circuits inbound from Novation: Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm.

DubSiren 2.0: Jamaican Sound System siren in your DAW

30 Dec 2020 in Synths

DubSiren 2.0 contains a siren synthesizer giving you a fat siren sound with full control, modulation, distortion and delay.

WVR: tiny open source sample player platform for audio projects

30 Dec 2020 in Synths

WVR is a ready-made wav player board for building custom electronic instruments and experimental machines.

Oskitone POLY555: 3D printed analogue polyphonic synthesizer

29 Dec 2020 in Synths

The POLY555 is an alarmingly coloured and brilliant lo-fi synthesizer based on a whole bunch of 555 timer oscillators.

The Best Software Synthesizers of 2020: Top 10 VSTi classics, innovations and weirdness

29 Dec 2020 in Synths

2020 saw wonderful software by Korg, Roland, Softube, Audiomodern, Cherry Audio GranuRise, Klevgränd, Matt Tytel, Mike Moreno DSP and Newfangled Audio.

Best of Eurorack 2020: 8 modules you need in your rack!

26 Dec 2020 in Synths

We were stunned by wonderful modules by Behringer, Cosmotronic, Expert Sleepers, Instruo, Omsonic, Qu-Bit, Robaux and RYK. Was your favourite among them?

Instruo saves Christmas by releasing their modules on VCV Rack for free

23 Dec 2020 in Synths

Jaw-dropping: Instruo adds 17 modules to VCV Rack FOR FREE, breaking the hearts of hardware fans and adding modular joy to our season of disappointment.