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Geode is a fierce and furious dual digital oscillator synthesizer with a 70's analog stompbox filter and bags of modulation. It's compact, good value and leaves it all out on the front panel.
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Starling is releasing "Via" for running multiple module firmware on a single hardware module. With different faceplates and open source software they could become any module you could ever want.
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Joyo's new D-Seed II is a stereo digital delay that's pretty feature packed given the price of under USD 90. Could this be the perfect delay/looper for newcomers to echo-type effects?
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Named after one of Steel Panther's tracks the Poontang Boomerang is their latest effect pedal and is designed to be tongue in cheek with dated '80s Glam Metal humour, but is it any good?
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SPICE is a desktop and Eurorack compatible saturator unit capable of a huge array of sounds and colours. It can produce anything from subtle tube warmth to extreme fuzz distortion - sounds like fun!
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
