Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Mazetools Mutant fuses music through Tesseract manipulation in hyperspace

03 Apr 2020 in Synths

Mutant is a visually interactive compositional space of cross-platform musical experimentation and transformation - or messing about with sounds in cubes with your mates.

Sixty Four Pixels Noodlebox 4-part CV/Gate and MIDI desktop Serendipity Sequencer

03 Apr 2020 in Synths

The Noodlebox from Sixty Four Pixels offers 4 channels of CV/Gate and MIDI sequencing in a neat desktop box with a huge LED matrix screen that revels in accidental and hopefully happy accidents.

Critter & Guitari EYESY Video Synthesizer makes music for the eyes

02 Apr 2020 in Synths

Boutique electronic instrument makers Critter & Guitari has a new visual box of tricks that will generate fabulously dynamic video projections in response to your music.

Give your Behringer Crave some juicy low end with this DIY Sub-Oscillator project

01 Apr 2020 in Synths

Carmelo Azzarello of Analog Lab has put together a circuit that adds a square wave sub-oscillator to the Behringer Crave for some really beefy tones. Can work on other synths and Eurorack too!

ADDAC System 106 T-Noiseworks snare and hi-hat generator

31 Mar 2020 in Synths

Finishing off their T-Networks series of modules based on vintage drum machine technology the ADDAC106 pumps 4-channels of noise into the circuit for some snare and hi-hat action.

Endlesss: online jamming app released with a whole day of celebrity jams

31 Mar 2020 in Studio

Developer and musical collaboration visionary Tim Exile has released Endlesss his online jamming app for iOS that'll have you making music with friends and musicians all over the world.

Grid from Birdkids is a handheld, wireless, haptic controller for audiovisual apps

30 Mar 2020 in Studio

Birdkids collaborate with Formlabs to introduce Grid, the first in a series of handheld, wireless, haptic controllers for creative audiovisual apps. Now on Kickstarter.

Dual and Quad VCA modules in “Kosmo” Eurorack from Look Mum No Computer

28 Mar 2020 in Synths

Sam Battle of Look Mum No Computer has released his latest VCA modules. The 1181 Dual VCA and 1183/1184 Quad VCA are available as PCB/Panel kits in the overlarge Kosmo Eurorack format.

TABØR: Analogue rhythmic car crash oscillator with a glowing orb of destruction

28 Mar 2020 in Synths

TABØR kicks off like some kind of steam-punk spaceship spluttering into life and pulsing sound and light at you as it screams and thuds its way into orbit. This is going to be epic.

Waldorf Quantum leaps to version 2.0 with FM and more

28 Mar 2020 in Synths

Waldorf's hybrid uber-synth Quantum gets a big 2.0 update including a whole new oscillator that brings in 6-operator FM and blows open many more possibilities.

PER|FORMER open source DIY 8-track Eurorack sequencer

27 Mar 2020 in Synths

PER|FORMER is a stunning looking open source project from Simon Kallweit (AKA Westlicht). It's an 8-track step-sequencer for Eurorack designed for composition and live performance.

Ouroboros Alea: A mysteriously West Coast 2-voice analog semi-modular

26 Mar 2020 in Synths

Ouroboros Electronics has revealed Alea, an intriguingly wooden, unlabelled and banana plug socketed 2-voice analog semi-modular synthesizer.

Starling Via SYNC3, OSC3 and ATSR Eurorack modules emerge from shared hardware platform

25 Mar 2020 in Synths

Starling debuts three new modules in its "Via" family based on the same hardware platform exported from VCV Rack. They're complex, fascinating and full of possibilities if you can fathom them out.

Hypno: trippy voltage controlled visual oscillator for Eurorack or Desktop

24 Mar 2020 in Tech

Hypno is a complete digital video playground in a Eurorack module or little box that can generate seizure-inducing visuals for your modular performances.

FRMS: where granular and FM collide with subtractive

24 Mar 2020 in Synths

Imaginando has released FRMS the consonant free hybrid synthesizer that ties Granular up with FM and shoves it through a Subtractive sound engine.

Neutral Labs Elmyra: sonic weirdness DIY Drone Synth inspired by the Lyra-8

23 Mar 2020 in Synths

Elmyra is a platform for sonic exploration thru the weirdness of drones and implausibility of textures. It's inspired by that Godfather of weirdness the SOMA Labs Lyra-8 and you can build it yourself.

BEATS: a new custom oscillator for Logue SDK Korg synths from Tim Shoebridge

22 Mar 2020 in Synths

BEATS is a collection of 28 percussive sounds and a few variations built into a single custom oscillator for the Korg Prologue, Minilogue XD and NTS from Tim Shoebridge.

Tssss – StartHere: MeeBlip Anode DIY synth starter kit

21 Mar 2020 in Synths

The Secret Southside Synthesizer Society (Tssss) has released a mini desktop synthesizer DIY kit called StartHere designed as a beginners introduction to Synth DIY and based on the MeeBlip Anode.

Zzzorb: four-pole multimode filter with a linear VCA for extra Zzzing

20 Mar 2020 in Synths

Alright Devices has released Zzzorb a rather cute looking 4-pole filter with 5 simultaneous filter outputs and a built-in VCA for volume, tremolo or feedback self-modulation.

SYNTHR3: An analogue, 3-oscillator synthesizer with a choice of filters

19 Mar 2020 in Synths

From the workshop of SynthR comes the mighty SYNTHR3, a triple oscillator analogue synthesizer with up to 3-note paraphonic modes and a choice of classic filters.

Wolfgang Palm retires, hands PPG to Brainworx and Plugin Alliance

19 Mar 2020 in Synths

Synth pioneer Wolfgang Palm, founder of PPG in 1975, retires and hands on his immense legacy to Brainworx, who pledge to take those VST Instruments and iOS synthesizer apps into the future.

SOMA Labs Pulsar-23 organismic drum machine is released!

18 Mar 2020 in Synths

Vlad Kreimer's mind and circuit bending Pulsar-23 drum machine has been teasing us with its conduction infused rhythms and modulations for ages. It's officially released but there's a waiting list.

iOptigan: classic 70’s chord organ scratches its lo-fi auto-accompaniment onto iPad

18 Mar 2020 in Synths

iOptigan authentically recreates the Optigan chord organ that pulled pre-recorded rhythms and accompaniments off LP-sized film discs that you could then play along to. Sounds mad and fun!

GranuRise: immersive sonic interaction and complex sound structures of samples and synthesis

18 Mar 2020 in Synths

GranuRise is strange and deeply fascinating using expressive interaction to process sample-based sources through semi-prepared generative structures. It's a bit granular, complex and looks amazing.