Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

ETHER: another weird object from Soma Labs – it captures electromagnetic waves

21 Feb 2019 in Synths

Vlad from Soma Laboratory produces some of the most wonderfully weird and fascinating devices. ETHER is an anti-radio that picks up the electromagnetic waves around you and turns them into a soundscape.

Igniter vehicle sound design: spaceships, sports cars, trucks and texture

20 Feb 2019 in Synths

Craft your own plane, train, rocket, bike, alien, chopper and automobile engine sounds with Igniter, a fascinating granular sampling and synthesizer sound design machine.

Teenage Engineering open up about the OP-1 price hike

19 Feb 2019 in Synths

First the OP-1 was dead, then it was on eBay at vastly inflated prices, then it was alive again and now it's back with a 50% price hike - what's that all about?

4MS new modules let you plug in your headphones and Listen to your Eurorack

19 Feb 2019 in Synths

4MS has released the Listen range of modules which feature an expandable mixer that outputs modular and line audio signals and an I/O module that has a dual headphone output for you and a friend.

Rob Papen brings Rack Extension Vecto 4-oscillator vector synthesizer to VST

19 Feb 2019 in Synths

Rob says that they received so many requests to expand the reach of Vecto, their 4 oscillator vector synthesis based synthesizer, to other plug-in formats that he felt it rude not to.

Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro pulls decent Mellotron sounds out of your iPhone

18 Feb 2019 in Synths

If you have the room for authentically sampled Mellotron tapes on your iOS device then Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro will serve you up some classically trippy tape-based sounds.

12-voice analogue polysynth coming soon from GS Music

18 Feb 2019 in Synths

The image is only a 3D render but it shows the ambitious plans of Argentina based GS Music to make a 12-voice analogue synthesizer planned for September.

Verv: Sunbaked Tape Loop Synthesizer with added degradation, wow and flutter

15 Feb 2019 in Synths

Verv is a string machine based on tape loops that have been left in the sun, on the dashboard of a car, in the desert, for the summer. It's wobbly wonderland of degraded sounds.

Mutes: the first Eurorack module from modular guru DivKid

15 Feb 2019 in Synths

Mutes is a 4-channel performance muting module with momentary and latched mutes based on vactrols for smooth, clickless action. Perfect for switching audio and CV creatively through your rack.

Teenage Engineering cancels orders on 170 modular synth and 16 sequencer

14 Feb 2019 in Synths

Citing a problem with manufacturing Teenage Engineering has elected to cancel and refund all pre-orders on the 170 Modular Synth and 16 Keyboard Sequencer.

zenAud.io brings ALK2 Arranged Live Looping sequencer to Windows

13 Feb 2019 in Studio

ALK2 takes the concept of the looper pedal into the arrangement space of the DAW and let's you pre-arrange your live looping experience. And now Windows users get to have a go.

Chiptune HapiNES L and 8-bit Acid8 MKIII from Twisted Electrons

12 Feb 2019 in Synths

The HapiNES and Acid8 mini synthesizers get an update with a smart new case and MIDI connectivity. The rest is kind of underwhelming from the usually very progressive Twisted Electrons.

Paramount Synth floats a futuristic looking analog polysynth on Indiegogo

08 Feb 2019 in Synths

Straight out of the futuristic vision of the 1980s comes a synth based on CEM 3340 VCOs and 4-voice poly. But with no prototype and no demos can Paramount Synth capture the imagination of Indiegogo investors?

AI Synthesis AI006 will get your stomp boxes into your Eurorack

07 Feb 2019 in Synths

Love using guitar stompboxes to effect the signals in your Eurorack? Then you need the AI006 to sort out your levels and drastically improve the signal going through the loop.

Roland registers the look of the TR-808 and TB-303 as trademarks

07 Feb 2019 in Synths

Roland pulls their finger out and registers the design and layout of the iconic TR-808 and TB-303 as trademarks in Germany. How will this affect Behringer and other clone manufacturers?

Softube Modular Mutable Instruments Rings

Softube Modular gets slapped and excited with Mutable Instruments Rings

06 Feb 2019 in Synths

Softube Modular acquires another official Mutable Instruments module. Rings is a popular physical modelling Eurorack module that's helped define the sound of Eurorack over the past 3 years.

Soma Dvina: strings vibrating in magnetic fields electro-acoustic instrument

05 Feb 2019 in Studio

Soma Laboratories has come up with the simplest of classical stringed instruments where vibrations are captured with magnets, transformed, pre-amped, delayed and distorted in completely haunting ways.

NAMM 2019: Black Corporation Xerxes seen in action

01 Feb 2019 in Synths

We finally get to see the Black Corporation Xerxes in action which was largely overlooked at NAMM. Based on the Elka Synthex 1980's analogue polysynth.

NAMM 2019: STG Soundlabs .VCO, Radiophonic 1 Eurorack system and Boatrocker

31 Jan 2019 in Synths

STG Soundlabs introduce us to a new oscillator, put a power supply and some modules into a discarded Moog Mother-32 case and call it the Radiophonic 1 monosynth.

NAMM 2019: Mind Music Labs ELK and Rack Extensions revisited

30 Jan 2019 in Synths, Studio

Music Mind Labs demonstrated a Propellerhead Rack Extension running in a prototype Eurorack module on their ELK Music OS. I try to work out what it all means.

Rabid Elephant is working on a Eurorack sequencer

29 Jan 2019 in Synths

News from Rabid Elephant the makers of the always-sold-out-just-before-you-hit-the-buy-button Natural Gate that they are working on a fun and inspiring Eurorack sequencer.

NAMM 2019: Gamechanger Audio Motor Piano prototype polysynth

28 Jan 2019 in Synths

The Motor Piano is a synthesizer that uses regular DC motors spinning optical disks as voltage controlled oscillators. 3 spinning motors are used per voice for up to 12 voices in this fascinating synthesizer.

NAMM 2019: Behringer’s last surprise is the Crave semi-modular analog synthesizer

27 Jan 2019 in Synths

Behringer rounds off the NAMM weekend with a spectacular semi-modular monosynth called Crave that's fat, groovy, with a cool sequencer and loads of patch points for only $199 - Behringer wins.

NAMM 2019: Dreadbox Komorebi is a Chorus/Flanger pedal from guitar to Eurorack

27 Jan 2019 in Studio, Guitar, Synths

Komorebi is a Japanese word which eloquently captures the effect of sunlight streaming through the leaves of the trees. Komorebi is a fascinating Chorus/Flanger pedal designed for much more than guitar.