A fierce analog multimode filter with three stages of gain, distortion and drive, two CV controls over cutoff and one over the self-oscillating resonance. The vcf1's clean layout belies its more extreme heart.
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Future Sound Systems have been working with Chris Carter and Roy Gwinn to recreate Throbbing Gristle's classic Gristleizer guitar effects sound in Eurorack. We got our first look at ModularMeets Leeds.
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PolyGAS is a very capable granular synth. It's easy to use, it has a good range of preset sounds and wave files, looks fabulous and works a treat. And it's free. That's very useful indeed.
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Soundless is a cool little VST synthesizer with a fierce amount of resonance and loudness. It's the first VSTi from TopSounds and they believe it's going to be the best thing ever!
For an open-source synth running completely online, the Viktor NV-1 is impressively fully-featured with its three oscillators (with 6 waveforms each), noise generator, LFO, 2 envelope generators, LP filter...
A whole slew of new EHX products have been leaked via Instagram and it looks like the New York pedal builder has been very busy indeed, with pedals, amps and cabs to be added to its line-up...
Erica Synths introduced two new DIY kits/modules, the DIY SWAMP and a DIY voltage-controlled filter. Both can do funny and musical things with control voltage synths, especially SWAMP, a crazy CV randomizer...
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Combining overdrive with a wah filter that mimics that 'cocked wah' sound without all the hassle of a wah pedal, can this new offering from Daredevil beat a similar pedal by Electro-Harmonix?
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A new boutique analogue filter, the Lida Machine has lots of control, some crazy sounds and a reasonable price - this may be the most compelling VCF pedal for guitar we've ever seen.
Amalgame features 23 effects that can be hooked up in various ways and modulated by 6 XY pads - this promises to be a lot of fun if you want to artistically mess up your audio!
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When you use (abs(INPUT^3))^3. to create your distortion sounds, you know you aren't following the herd. This new effect from the USA might blow your mind - or your speakers!
We can't get enough of TB-303 emulations and so Acid Box is welcomed with an eager mouse ready to spin those knobs and step that sequencer. Does it have anything to make it your go-to bassline VST synth?
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Walrus Audio have really upped their game on their latest delay pedal, it is featured packed and comes in at a price to rival many of the more generic delays out there by big name manufacturers.
Did I say snakes? I meant sequencer - momentarily distracted by the mythical beast that turned Jason's Argonauts into stone. Medusa is a 3 oscillator monosynth with a sequencer and arpeggiator by Polyend.
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Don't let the dull exterior fool you, the softPop is one psychedelic semi-modular biological entity that moves, grooves and devours other boxes of noise with the wet fart of ecstatic synthesis.
Everyone looking to add some gruffness to their tracks can benefit from having a multi-band distortion plug-in in their arsenal. Something like Kombinat Tri, with no less than 13 distortion algorithms...
