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Teenage Engineering has come up with their own brand of modular synthesis as part of the Pocket Operator family. Colourful, groovy, capable and seriously fun these are a stunning entry into the world of ...
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Will the Stylophone GEN R-8 be the synthesizer that finally shakes them free from the ghost of Rolf Harris and the toy synth for kids? Could be!
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Korg takes a decent synthesizer and pushes it into being an awesome synthesizer. Minilogue XD takes on the Prologue's digital oscillator and tweaks the Minilogue into something really quite fabulous.
Techno-L HN1 is a badass-looking rompler stuffed full of ready-to-go sounds for techno, minimal and industrial genres that also could be suited to other types of electronica as well.
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Finland's Mad Professor has been busy brewing up a new all-analogue modulation pedal with 11 lush-sounding effects available, including flangers, chorus and vibratos. But is it missing a trick or two?
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Joyo's R Series of budget effects pedals is causing a bit of a stir and its latest addition is the new Aquarius delay/looper pedal. with 300 s of loops and 8 delay models for under 80 quid.
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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.
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!
Ellistronics is at it again with the handmade synthesizers of notes and noises. This time it's all Sewn into a bit of old sack and solar powered for ultimate portability.
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Arturia has dropped Pigments, a visually enticing mega-synth that takes modulation, randomisation and probability to some very interesting places. Get your first in-depth look here!
A new Eurorack module from Rossum Electro that's a field of knobs and intertwined patch sockets that, apparently, is all analogue - what's it going to be?
REAMP is a joy to look at with its pastel colors, and judging by the audio examples, the sound is on point. Among the available saturation modes are a casette deck, tape reel, and tube amplifiers.
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Waves have a go at making FM synthesis free flowing and easy with Flow Motion FM Synth and bolt in some analog style filtering for good measure. Does it sound as fabulous as it looks?
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If you need to plug a MIDI controller into an analogue synthesizer then Kenton have you covered. The Pro Solo Mk3 in a stunningly similar silver box with more CV outputs, envelope and drum triggering.
Uli Behringer takes to the internet to tell us that the RD-909 is not coming as soon as we'd like but if we're patient then we're going to love the price.
This is the last run of 100 Prophet 12s ever to be made. The Prophet 12 LE comes in icy arctic white and a maple body and is a superb hybrid synthesizer - get one while you can.
