Robin Vincent, Author at gearnews.com

Propellerhead team up with Mind Music Labs to put Rack Extensions into hardware

10 Jan 2019 in Synths

MIND Music Labs ELK is a music orientated OS for Intel and ARM-based devices that now supports Propellerhead Rack Extensions. But will we ever see any products that run it?

Hypersynth release Hcard memory cartridges for DX7 and D-50 synthesizers

09 Jan 2019 in Synths

Store up to 6400 patches in 100 banks on these new Hcard memory cartridges for the Yamaha DX7, DX7-II and Roland D-50. They come complete with the factory library and many more sounds.

NAMM 2019: Bob Moog Foundation bringing Moogseum preview

09 Jan 2019 in Synths

The Bob Moog Foundation has a dual booth sized Moogseum exhibit showing artefacts from the actual Moogseum that should open later this year including a massive 4 tier Moog modular

NAMM 2019: Could this be a new synthesizer from Analogue Solutions?

08 Jan 2019 in Synths

A mysterious photo appears of a device with dozens of knobs but not a single label, allegedly of an Analogue Solutions test bed. Any guesses on what it could be?

Plasma Distortion for your Eurorack? Yes please!

07 Jan 2019 in Synths

Erica Synths tease us with a glimpse of a glowing tube of fabulously distorting plasma sitting in what appears to be a Eurorack module. This is going to be awesome!

Casper Bastl Dark Matter is here to feedback your reality

07 Jan 2019 in Synths

Dark Matter will take your Eurorack audio to breaking point with 4 flavours of voltage controller overdrive while feeding back it's own resonant feedback crossfaded and crushed.

Behringer has finished their first prototype Eurorack module: Loads more to come

05 Jan 2019 in Synths

Uli Behringer updates us on their plans for Eurorack domination that includes 40 modules over the next two years and that their first prototype is ready to go. You're going to be able to afford this.

Synclavier brings its DSP synthesis engine to iOS and releases a knob

04 Jan 2019 in Synths

Synclavier is using NAMM 2019 to launch a reworking of their digital synthesis engine onto iOS plus they've got a hardware knob to help you play with parameters.

Leaked Akai APC Live images: Is this thing for real? (updated)

02 Jan 2019 in Studio

Slightly dodgy looking images have appeared on the internet of what appears to be a mash-up between the Akai MPC Live sampler and APC controller. It's filed for FCC testing as the APC Live so it must be real ...

Nave Polymorph analog synthesizer built from Polivoks schematics

02 Jan 2019 in Synths

A new analog synthesizer based on the Soviet Polivoks with a name suggesting polyphony. But the Polymorph is more likely to be duophonic and is heading for release in February.

Receive 2 and Transmit 2 – stereo inputs and outputs for your Eurorack

01 Jan 2019 in Synths

Joranalogue Audio Designs has introduced some studio-grade modules for taking audio into and out of your Eurorack. Receive 2 and Transmit 2 look very serious indeed.

Korg Minilogue XD – is this the new thing they were teasing?

01 Jan 2019 in Synths

Could the keyboard Korg were teasing be this leaked image of the Minilogue XD? It has a digital oscillator section just like the Prologue and the sequencer from the Monologue.

Top 5 Hardware Synthesizers of 2018 by Moog, Behringer, Korg, Dreadbox, Arturia

29 Dec 2018 in Synths

Which hardware synthesizers really took us to new places in 2018? Were there any that really stood out above the crowd for you? But with so much awesome gear out there choosing 5 is a bit of a tall order.

FamilyTool – an extension to the Mother-32, DFAM or any semi-modular

28 Dec 2018 in Synths

FamilyTool is a 20hp box that adds passive functionality to your patchable synths with a mult, attenuators and a bunch of mixers. With some stretch goal power it could also be a little Eurorack box.

Korg teasing something new for 2019

27 Dec 2018 in Synths

A mysterious figure playing a possibly keyboard-like device lit by blue light-sabres. What could it all mean? Korg says they have something new for 2019.

Top 5 Software Synthesizers of 2018 (reprise)

26 Dec 2018 in Synths

2018 saw a plethora of inventive, appealing software synthesizers, including our Top 5 by Arturia, FXpansion, Native Instruments, Waslio Audio, Cherry Audio and Waves. Wait, that's 6?!?

Whatever happened to these synths promised in 2018?

25 Dec 2018 in Synths

Many products promised for 2018 didn't materialise. Did they vanish without a trace or are just taking longer than they hoped. We dug into our favourite missing synths of 2018 to find out.

Top 5 Modular Gear of 2018 by Strymon, Mutable, Endorphin, Erica, Arturia

23 Dec 2018 in Synths

Whew, what a year for modular gear that was! Here's the best of a cracking field of modular gear in 2018 - which you may or not agree with. It could easily have been a Top 20!

New Korg Volcas: Micro Modular and Digital Percussion Synthesizer

21 Dec 2018 in Synths

Just when you thought Korg had lost interest in the Volca series of mini synths two new ones pop up on Instagram - a Buchla inspired Micro Modular and a Digital Percussion Synthesizer.

Nektar BOLT Harmonics Synthesizer takes us by surprise

20 Dec 2018 in Synths

BOLT offers a different approach to synthesis. It builds overtones with the structure of the oscillator with full or odd harmonics, inverted or deeply embedded and then modulates the heck out of itself.

Polyphenom: Dreamily hypnotic hybrid synthesizer that will synthesize your soul

19 Dec 2018 in Synths

Polyphenom combines additive and subtractive synthesis in the hope of it adding up to something awesome. It certainly pulls off the dreaminess of additive and the power of subtractive in one neat package.

Leak! Are Nektar about to release a VST synthesizer?

19 Dec 2018 in Synths

An Instragram video of musician and producer Julian Wassermann at play on his Nektar Panarama T4 controller keyboard also shows an unknown VST synthesizer with the Nektar logo and the name BOLT.

Complex-1: front patching Modular Synthesizer for Propellerhead Reason

18 Dec 2018 in Synths

Reason is the modular workstation we didn't realise we had. Complex-1 literally brings all that patching to the fore with a sublime modular synthesizer Rack Extension with both West and East coast flavours.

Behringer MS-101 joins the clone pre-production line

18 Dec 2018 in Synths

Uli Behringer updates us on the forthcoming MS-101. As with many others promised for the end of the year it's taking longer than expected but it's now in pre-production and we could see it early next year.