81 Results for "expression"

Your Passage to Deeper, More Powerful Expression – Synth Journal

This week, we look at the new plugin expression tool, Passage, from Keysolutions Sounds, hardware controllers for vintage synths and a pedal that thinks it's a synth!

What Makes Vangelis’ Epic Blade Runner Soundtrack Such a Powerful Touchstone for Electronic Music?

Why is Blade Runner so revered and referenced by those both inside and outside electronic music making, and how did the tools he used enable the great man? I have a theory...

Hotone Freqlux: More Than a Polyphonic Pitch Shifter

The Hotone Freqlux is one of the most versatile, low-latency pitch shifters on the market. What does it sound like?

Nux Dual-Loop Stereo: Record and Loop All Day. Seriously.

The Nux Dual-Loop Stereo offers huge loop storage, a color display, and much more at a very attractive price! Check it out!

Dimension Shifter: Casio’s Guitar Strap FX Control!

Dimension Shifter converts guitar strap tension into wireless expression data for any pedal via a TRS-connected receiver.

My Top 5 Expressive Synths

A look at some of the more expressive synths of the last 40 years that I have owned and used.

UAFX 2.0 is Here: More MIDI, Better Bluetooth – Free Update!

Universal Audio greatly enhances pedals such as Lion, Dream, ANTI, and more with new features in UAFX 2.0. We've got the details.

ROLI Airwave – A Vision Into The Future?

The new ROLI Airwave is more than just a new controller. It's the start of a multi-faceted ecosystem designed to revolutionise the way we interact with instruments.

PLUS 3, Elektron Tonverk & Duolingo: Tops and Flops

From an incredibly useful button to an utterly useless piano: these were my personal tops and flops of this week.

Endorphin.es x Loopop PLUS 3 – An Actually Useful Synthtuber Collab

Spanish module maker Endorphin.es team up with Synthtuber Loopop to create a simple, clever and useful tool, the Endorphin.es x Loopop PLUS 3.

Hotone Cory Press: Cory Wong’s 4-in-1 pedal

Hotone Cory Press. This 4-in-1 pedal, designed by Cory Wong, features volume, expression, wah, and a combined volume/wah function

EarthQuaker Devices Ledges Tri-Dimensional Reverberation Machine

EarthQuaker Devices' Ledges Tri-Dimensional Reverberation Machine offers Room, Hall and Plate reverbs, plus six presets and control over all effect parameters

NAMM 2023: Black BT SusEx Pedal sustain and expression in one

The SusEx Pedal from Black BT combines the power of sustain and expression into a single pedal with Bluetooth MIDI for good measure.

HOT TOPIC – Osmose: Game-changer or eMPEror’s new clothes?

The Expressive E Osmose keyboard is creating an industry buzz. In the first of our HOT TOPIC features, we asked our synth experts for their opinions.

Seaboard RISE 2: ROLI’s squidgy controller is back

Luminary ROLI has brought back the Seaboard 5D expressive controller in the form of RISE 2 with a new fretted surface and 5D visualising Dashboard.

SOMA REFLEX: Synthesizer prototype with innovative expression

Out of the labs of SOMA comes a 6-voice polyphonic synthesizer with an unparalleled level of real-time control over both timbre and sound - meet the REFLEX.

MIDI guitar takes a big leap forward: ROR Guitars Expressiv MIDI Pro 2

Watch Paul Davids' take ROR Guitars' Expressiv MIDI Pro 2 through its paces. Has the MIDI guitar finally become viable for expressive playing?

Old Blood Noise Endeavors Expression Ramper: An Effect Pedal Parameter Mover!

Old Blood Noise Endeavors' Expression Ramper lets you to add movement to effect parameters on the fly via the EXP input on your favourite stompboxes.

Noisy: Expressive E gets out of character with a raucously expressive synth

An unexpectedly fruity software synth from Expressive E. Noisy looks surprisingly groovy and offers an expressive dive into physical modelling and subtractive synthesis.

Say hello to Eddy, a new analogue bucket brigade chorus/vibrato from Electro-Harmonix

Looking for a new chorus/vibrato? The new Electro-Harmonix Eddy offers analogue bucket brigade chorus and vibrato effects with external expression control.

ROLI takes us to next generation MPE expression with Equator 2

Equator 2 is a planet-sized update to ROLI's original MPE software synthesizer designed for MPE controllers and expressive playing.

Turn your iPhone into a cardboard stomp box

Beat Bars has come up with an innovative use for your old iPhone - turn it into a Cardboard Footswitch or Cardboard Expression Pedal.

Softwire Synthesis Press Controller for expressing some CV into your Eurorack

Possibly the oddest and most intriguing CV generator we've come across is the Press Controller from Softwire Synthesis that uses a chunky "button" to convert pressure into control voltage.

Could the new Electro-Harmonix Cntl Knob Static Expression Pedal replace your expression pedal?

The new Cntl Knob from Electro-Harmonix allows you to store two positions of a traditional expression pedal as presets in a tiny little box that will easily fit on a crowded pedalboard.