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The new Electro-Harmonix BASS9 Bass Machine pedal gives guitarists the opportunity to get low down and dirty, without the need for detuning or other laborious shenanigans.
TC Electronic's Flashback 2 X4 Delay adds a new Crystal delay and dual delay algorithms, six TonePrint slots and three MASH footswitches for on-the-fly messing about with parameters. Phew!
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Spectrum is a collection of AU plug-ins for iOS, based upon the open source designs of Mutable Instruments Eurorack modules. Why hadn't anyone thought of that before?
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Spectral Modelling is a curious thing. They sample an instrument and reduce it down to simple sine waves that recreate the authentic sound in a handful of MBs. The Model T is their latest electric piano.
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The Kemper Kabinet is a combination the Kemper Kone speaker uses DSP to digitally imprint speaker characteristics onto one single cabinet.
Eventide's H9 effect platform is good choice for players that like variety in the available sound palette - its 50th algorithm is a monophonic synth effect covering 70s and 80s synths.
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Bringing together aspects from the Organelle and Pocket Piano ONDA is an open platform of synthesis, effects and sampling in an enhanced, Raspberry Pi based form factor, with cool light up buttons.
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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.
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Rebel Technology Magus can be any synth or sound processor you could ever need. Just load the algorithm from a library of hundreds or create your own and then patch it any way you please.
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Whatever you put into the ADE-33 Event Boss will come out in patterns, rhythms and unexpected variations. It deals in variables, multiples, probables, logic, phase, gates and triggers and wants to be in charge.
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The NSynth algorithm extracts characteristics from a handful of sounds to interpolate a gazillion others letting you play in the space between instruments. It's experimental, open source and backed by Google.
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Kilpatrick Audio is showing prototypes of new desktop effects units. Torque, a multi-band compressor and Redox, a stereo algorithmic reverb. Great looking boxes with easy controls.
A synthesizer and beatbox for kids of all ages that's fun, fruity and wipe-clean - meet Blipblox making its debut at the NAMM creché or is there more to this than playful noise making?
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Bitwig Studio 2.3 fulfils a couple of frequent feature requests with time signatures and larger GUIs for devices, and gives us a whole new synth in the shape of the phase manipulating Phase-4.
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The PIPE takes a contact microphone through a labyrinth of effects and synthesis processing to generate extraordinary sounds out of an intimate, saxophone shaped device. All you have to do is pucker up.
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This week's pedals include budget octave pedals and two unique boutique offerings from the USA including two monstrously dirty pedals inspired by mythical beasts.
