MOK has extracted the dual oscillators from their furious Waverazor soft synth and forced it into a 1010Music Eurorack digital module complete with 22 CV patch points of torture. Updated with video!
Fuzzrocious make some strange and out-there effect pedals and this is certainly a unique one. Knob Jawn combines both analogue and digital octaves with a rather large knob.
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Arturia has borrowed some Mutable Instruments algorithms and given birth to a wonderful hybrid synthesizer they are calling the MicroFreak (adorable). Now with no-talking sound demo video!
Renowned plug-in developer McDSP is looking into entering the hardware realm with a promising and interesting product - a programmable analog processor.
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The look, styling, workflow and display has changed but the internal engine is very much the Valkyrie but as "KYRA" Waldorf is going to make this astonishing synthesizer a reality
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Four new modules from Noise Engineering: an updated VCA/VCF, a Clock machine, a triple distortion and Cursus Iteritas Percido - a complex digital synthesis box of huge proportions.
The sleek desktop unit offers quad DiscretePro preamps, quad line inputs (two of them commutable to Phono for connecting turntables), ADAT, and Bluetooth playback - among other valuable functionality.
Qu-Bit has three new modules for us this year: Prism the stereo signal processor and filter, Bloom a weird fractal sequencer and a very welcome update to the Chord polyphonic oscillator.
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The new Lunastone Dynamic Delay pedal is the company's very first digital pedal and takes some of the ideas first used in classic '80s studio rack samplers like the TC-2290.
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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.
Noise Engineering has a new 24HP uber-module to show at NAMM this year. The internet is alive with combinations of latin words to try to guess the name of what is probably a complex digital oscillator
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.
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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.
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.
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!
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.
