Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Teenage Engineering Splash Modular Bag for keeping things dry wherever you’re jammin’

16 Jul 2020 in Synths

Hoping to spend the summer jammin' on the beach, a paddleboard or in a hot-tub? Then the Splash Modular Bag will keep all your Teenage Engineering gadgets safe and dry in a water-resistant roll-up bag

inSIDious: Authentic sounds from the 80s that we tried to forget in one bodacious plugin

15 Jul 2020 in Synths

Impact Soundworks has harnessed the iconic sound of the Commodore 64 for us all to enjoy in inSIDious inspired by famous computer game composers of the 1980s and the most accurate SID recreation ever

MSK 013 Middle Path VCO walks between East and West coast synthesis

15 Jul 2020 in Synths

The MSK 013 Middle Path VCO from North Coast Synthesis journeys between East and West Coast synthesis with a dual oscillator module for simple sounds and a sine shaper for complex waveforms.

Sensel Morph multi-surface MPE controller absorbs Pure Data to control anything you can imagine

14 Jul 2020 in Studio

The pressure and touch-sensitive Sensel Morph has integrated its API with the open-source Pure Data visual programming language to let the community to dream up new ways to harness the control system.

GRONE DRONE: Clouds infused, MS20 filtered Eurorack drone synth

14 Jul 2020 in Synths

The GRONE DRONE synth from Maneco Labs is a dark and disturbed looking drone synth Eurorack module featuring a droning oscillator, MS20 style filter, noise, LFO and Clouds.

Soundforce Samples: 6 channels of 808 drums for Eurorack beats

13 Jul 2020 in Synths

Samples is a simple 4HP Eurorack module that features 6 sounds sampled from the Roland TR-808 drum machine. You'll not find Kick and Snare here this is purely the percussion end to mix things up a bit

WARHORSE: galloping delay, explosive distortion, combat filter in a Eurorack module

13 Jul 2020 in Synths

From Arcaico and Scuderia comes WARHORSE thundering into your rack pulling some hefty VCA integrated distortion, BBD delay and Wasp style filtering. Available as a Eurorack module or guitar pedal.

Erica Synths puts its DIY Kits online as open source projects

13 Jul 2020 in Synths

Erica Synths recently announced it was discontinuing its current range of DIY Eurorack modules but to the delight of the DIY community they are making them open-source for anyone to build.

Modular Sound Synthesis on the Moon: A Eurorack curriculum in a beautiful coffee table book

10 Jul 2020 in Synths

Modular Moon is a school of modular synthesis based out of Amsterdam and Berlin and they've just released a beautifully produced book containing the heart of their modular syllabus and curriculum.

IMPLEXUS: Waveshaping analogue desktop synthesizer that throbs with visual feedback

09 Jul 2020 in Synths

Coming to Kickstarter soon is the impressive-looking Implexus from Majella Audio that takes waveshaping and folding through an analogue signal path of East and West Coast-inspired synthesis.

Modal Skulpt V2.0 Firmware brings MPE support and more

08 Jul 2020 in Synths

Modal's compact 4-voice Skulpt virtual-analogue synthesizer gets a firmware upgrade that brings MPE support, Sustain/Arp Latch mode, Global Tuning Setting and MIDI-In Offset.

Symphonic AI: Orchestra controlled by animated intelligence

07 Jul 2020 in Synths

Sample Logic's Symphonic AI is an ambitious orchestral instrument built with 13GB of multi-samples animated by a proprietary quad-core audio engine and messed about with randomness.

Analog synthesizer on a chip – Coolaudio introduces the V3397

06 Jul 2020 in Synths

Semiconductor manufacturers Coolaudio has designed an "analog synth on-a-chip" based on the CEM3396 called the V3397 and it will open the door to some very compact polyphonic synthesizers.

Blackhole Cases THREE: 60HP portable Eurorack modular case designed with Afrorack

06 Jul 2020 in Synths

Blackhole Cases has a special edition portable Eurorack case called THREE they are releasing in collaboration with Afrorack and you can win one by donating to Afrorack's educational program.

Two Sensel Morphs and a Joué come together as a Ystring MPE Guitar style controller

03 Jul 2020 in Studio

Controller pioneer Yann Seven has strapped two Sensel Morph controllers and overlays from the Joué Play controller to a piece of board to make an intriguingly awesome guitar style MPE controller.

DIVA CTRL: control more than 130 parameters of U-He DIVA with a Novation LaunchControl XL

02 Jul 2020 in Synths

New on Kickstarter is a template and overlay for the Novation LaunchControl XL designed to harness all the parameters of the U-He DIVA software synthesizer and place them at your fingertips.

Prok Modular brings their drum modules and more to VCV Rack

02 Jul 2020 in Synths

The Prok Modular drum mobiles are a popular way to add versatile drum sounds to your Eurorack modular. Now you can have those same modules in VCV Rack along with 10 modules only available in software.

Pittsburgh Modular revamps the Lifeforms SV-1 into the sublime SV-1b

01 Jul 2020 in Synths

Pittsburgh Modular has finally let go of the old legendary Lifeforms SV-1 and moved into the new era of classy black design with the SV-1b in both Eurorack and Blackbox formats.

Roland releases JX-8P Model Expansion for Zenology

01 Jul 2020 in Synths

Roland's Zenology virtual instrument gets its first Model Expansion in the shape of the classic 1985 JX-8P polyphonic synthesizer and includes the editing functions of the PG-800 programmer.

Hans Zimmer brings wisdom to Spitfire Audio Westworld Competition debacle

01 Jul 2020 in Other

A hugely popular soundtrack scoring competition fell into controversy when the internet didn't approve of the winner. Hans Zimmer has weighed in with some calming wisdom that we should all listen to.

Dove Audio NJM2069 VCF/VCA harnesses the sound of Korg chip from Poly800

29 Jun 2020 in Synths

Dove Audio has found a bunch of old Korg NJM2069 VCF/VCA chips and fashioned them into a new 5U Moog module. The chip was used in synths like the Poly800, DW8000 and DSS1.

From Kraftwerk to Battlestar Galactica: XILS X-201 Vintage Vocoder and effects box

28 Jun 2020 in Synths

Modelled after the classic Sennheiser VSM-201 vocoder as used by Kraftwerk, Herbie Hancock, Boney M and Battlestar Galactica the XILS X-201 brings that immediately recognisable sound back to life.

Dreadbox and Sinevibes Typhon: Way more than just another monosynth

26 Jun 2020 in Synths

The Typhon is a quirky combination of analog synthesis, sequencing and digital effects in a very cool collaboration between Dreadbox and Sinevibes.

Behringer pin matrix board for Synthi clone is coming along

26 Jun 2020 in Synths

Behringer has posted a few photos of their modulation pin matrix for a forthcoming Synthi VCS3 style synthesizer. These are tool-made samples which are a milestone in the development process.