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EarthQuaker Devices' Ledges Tri-Dimensional Reverberation Machine offers Room, Hall and Plate reverbs, plus six presets and control over all effect parameters
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The SusEx Pedal from Black BT combines the power of sustain and expression into a single pedal with Bluetooth MIDI for good measure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Watch Paul Davids' take ROR Guitars' Expressiv MIDI Pro 2 through its paces. Has the MIDI guitar finally become viable for expressive playing?
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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.
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An unexpectedly fruity software synth from Expressive E. Noisy looks surprisingly groovy and offers an expressive dive into physical modelling and subtractive synthesis.
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Looking for a new chorus/vibrato? The new Electro-Harmonix Eddy offers analogue bucket brigade chorus and vibrato effects with external expression control.
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Equator 2 is a planet-sized update to ROLI's original MPE software synthesizer designed for MPE controllers and expressive playing.
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Beat Bars has come up with an innovative use for your old iPhone - turn it into a Cardboard Footswitch or Cardboard Expression Pedal.
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.
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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.
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KMA is producing a limited edition run of a modded version of its Logan drive pedal, the super-flexible Logan Desert Transcend Drive - only 100 units are being made.
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Over on Kickstarter the Striso Board is offering multidimensional expressive MIDI control in the form of an array of isomorphically placed squishy buttons. Check it out.
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France based Ritual Electronics has revealed a new bunch of 1U Eurorack modules for the increasingly popular format including expression pedal adapters, mixing, comparing and some serious distortion.
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The new RPS Effects Arcade Machine is a little analogue box of joy that will get your pedalboard ready for all sorts of retro '80s arcade-style synth tones!
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Tsakalis Audio Works has launched the Molecular Boost, a devastatingly useful mini pedal combining at least three effects into its dinky little case. A mini powerhouse packs some serious punch!
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Have you ever wished you had an expression pedal with a MIDI output? The Beat Bars EX3 and FS3 pedals connect directly via MIDI or USB and can send a variety of MIDI messages, including clock. Useful!
Even owners of the V2 version will want to check out the new updated Earthquaker Devices Afterneath V3, because it comes with an EXP input with 9 different modes for the drag parameters.
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Waves Organic ReSynthesis technology takes an incoming vocal and breaks it into amplitude, pitch and formant and then resynthesizes them to create a whole new sound via an 8-voice synthesizer engine.
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Wampler has just announced a brand new, all-digital Multi-Modulation pedal called Terraform. Until now, the Strymon Mobius has been king of the modulation pedals - can Terraform take the crown?
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Put Expressive E and Haken Audio together in a room and you'd have more performance expression than a contemporary dance workshop. They've got something new to show us and it's going to be fabulous.
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Four classic analogue boutique phaser voices in one pedal? The new Crazy Tube Circuits Cyclone covers everything from Floyd to Van Halen in one pedal. And at this price, it's a bit of a bargain.
