Superbooth18: Special Rolling Report
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Synthheads everywhere are either making their way to Berlin this week for Superbooth18 or glued to their media feeds: the year’s most exciting event for electronic music creation is almost upon us. Follow all the latest news from Berlin here!
03 May 2018 in Synths
Twisted Electrons try to beat Teenage Engineering at their own game with these cool minisynths. HapiNES is all about chiptune and uAcid8 has your acid bass covered.
Superbooth 2018: Dreadbox Medusa synthesis and sequencing with Polyend
03 May 2018 in Synths
Medusa is a hybrid synthesizer combining analogue and digital oscillators, up to 6 paraphonic voices plus an expressive 64 pad grid of sequencing and modulation programming. Now with video!
Superbooth 2018: Joranalogue’s Filter 8 Multimode Filter/8-Phase Oscillator
02 May 2018 in Synths
Filter 8 offers 8 outputs at 45-degree phase shifts, push the resonance up to 4 octaves of self-oscillation with 1volt/oct tracking or LFO modulating. Plus the Select 2 CV Processor and Add 2 and Link 2 CV ...
Superbooth 2018: QD – Quad Drum Voice Eurorack module from vpme.de
02 May 2018 in Synths
QD gives 4 channels of sample or modelled drum sounds with shaping controls, metering, internal mixing, muting and panning. Ideal companion to the Euclidean Circles or any other trigger sequencer.
Superbooth 2018: Hexinverter Mindphaser Thru-Zero Phase Modulation oscillator
02 May 2018 in Synths
Mindphaser is a complex TZ-PM oscillator that deals with carriers and modulators, routing through waveshapers and Thru-Zero Phase Modulation with brain-melting and mind phasing results.
Superbooth 2018: Dave Smith reveals full details of Sequential Prophet X
02 May 2018 in Synths
It's great for those traditional instrument sounds, looping weirdness and Prophet style synthesis running through analog filters. The Prophet X isn't for everyone but if you want Kontakt in hardware then this ...
Superbooth 2018: Xaoc Zadar 1973 Quadruple Envelope Generator
02 May 2018 in Synths
Zadar uses deformable vector shapes to generate hundreds of different and manipulable envelopes across 4 channels of CV modulation goodness. This is no ADSR.
Superbooth 2018: Odessa 1975 Variable Spectrum Harmonic Cluster Oscillator
02 May 2018 in Synths
Xaoc Devices get into Additive Synthesis with partials, harmonics, and a whole lot of combing, tilting and warping. So dial in the partials and turn up the tension and watch the power density spectrum soar.
Superbooth 2018: Futuristic CROW Intelligence from BirdKids?
02 May 2018 in Synths
It's like a hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional, high-resolution MIDI controller but without the constraints that MIDI implies. CROW Intelligence wants to be the source of all modulation and fun stuff in your ...
Superbooth 2018: IK Multimedia UNO First Demo!
02 May 2018 in Synths
IK releases its first hardware synthesizer aimed at the affordable and easy-to-use market: UNO is a monosynth with an analogue signal path, sequencer, arpeggiator and mini keyboard. A good start!
Superbooth 2018: Spooky Action Ableton Link clock generator from vpme.de
01 May 2018 in Synths
Spooky Action will wirelessly sync your Eurorack to your computer or anything else running Ableton Link while kicking out multiples, divisions, reset gates and all sorts of clock.
Superbooth 2018: Roland announce four new System-500 modules
01 May 2018 in Synths
To be revealed at Superbooth Roland have owned up to the 4 new System-500 modules that we saw at the Puma launch party. We get a synth voice, a filter, a multi-utility and a mixer - good times!
First listen to U-He CVilization prototype Eurorack module
30 Apr 2018 in Synths
A video has emerged of the U-He CVilization prototype Eurorack module in action but without any explanation of what it's actually doing. Is it a CV processor, a sequence mixer? What do you think?
Latest Syntonovo prototype multi-dimensional synthesizer to appear at Superbooth
30 Apr 2018 in Synths
Felix Visser from Syntonovo has been working on a multi-dimensional keyboard long before MPE came along and now his XYZPression keyboard is almost ready to go and it's built into an analog synthesizer.
MacBeth Elements EL2: Synthesizer perfection in a field of knobs
30 Apr 2018 in Synths
Ken MacBeth reveals the successor to the legendary Elements synthesizer, the Elements EL2. The change to black is awesome, but other changes are more subtle - we should get to hear it at Superbooth.
Norns: a platform for sound processing, synthesis, poetry and form
30 Apr 2018 in Synths
Norns is a minimalist metal box harbouring the power of processes to evolve and morph into anything you can write a script for. Monome's slow reveal is an enticing look into the mind of a synthesis developer.