$20 will get you the Audible Instruments Preview module for virtual Eurorack VCV Rack. You can then run fully functional virtual versions of Mutable Instruments Plaits and now Marbles for free.
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It's been a bumper year for semi-modular synthesizers. Completely capable of being awesome in their own right but with a willingness to get patched into something greater. Here's our pick of the best.
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WTF? A new form of waveform morphing? Yes the Window Transform Function blends a front and rear waveform together to produce very pleasing harmonics and tones. WTF Oscillator on Kickstarter now.
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We saw the prototype at Superbooth but now Analogue Solutions have named it and told us it's coming very soon. Generator is a 3 channel CV step sequencer and gate sequencer and the leaked images look awesome.
Like a power source forged in the heart of an exploding sun the new and improved Dark Energy III oozes with analogue synthesizer action and opens itself up to a cool bit of modding.
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An unsubstantiated email posted on a forum spills the beans on the spec of what could be a huge polyphonic synthesizer from Moog, probably called the Moog One. Is it real? Hopefully Moog can set us straight.
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When you've got your hands full of knobs how do you switch modulation or sequences without taking your fingers off the sweet spot? The Sleight of Hand is a passive CV signal footswitch that'll do the job ...
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The Pro-Feel key-bed is robust and yet sensitive, delicate and nuanced for high-impact play - are Arturia describing the new KeyLab MkII controller keyboards or a new range of condoms?
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Analogue Solutions small but epic Treadstone monosynth has been refitted into the Eurorack format. You get a proper synth voice with filter, envelope, LFO, sequencer and delay. Shame they didn't paint the ...
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The MOD Duo guitar pedal gets upgraded to the MOD Duo X and placed on the desktop. Apparently, It contains an infinite amount of effects, instruments and MIDI utilities but details are still a bit sketchy.
Based on the Oberheim OMX drum machines DSP Synthesizers have worked up a 6 channel vintage 80's drum module with inbuilt mixing, MIDI and USB. That's a lot of drums in 12HP.
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Grayscale has taken the Turing Machine and given it a jolly good upgrade. Individual step outputs and CV inputs take it in all sorts of interesting directions and there are three sizes to choose from.
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The Shrolca takes the Mutable Instruments Shruthi mono MIDI synthesizer and puts it in a Volca sized box and adds a touch keyboard for good measure. It's not exactly innovative but it looks cool.
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The Thereminator adds more dimensions to a Theremin performance with three positionally controlled triggers or gates to either the pitch or volume antennas. Trigger drums, samples and sequences as you play.
Just on Kickstarter is the MK2 of the Ginko Synthese real-time sampling module Sampleslicer. With better quality, all through-hole components, clock CV, auto-calibrating, higher gain and an inaudible noise ...
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Now with 6 classic virtually modelled analog Roland TR-606 style drum sounds the R606 MKII packs some classic vibes into a space saving 4hp Eurorack module.
