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Building on the success of the Blipblox's Fisher-Price approach to synthesizers they've stuck it through a portal of evil and Blipblox After Dark is the horrifying result.
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Leaked before the show but now it's official with all the wonderful images and video that Moog likes to surround a new product with. The Moog Subsequent 25 is a delicious little synthesizer.
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Plasmonic is ready for preorders on Indiegogo and says it's a deeply expressive virtual synthesizer that combines the resonant depth of physical modeling with subtractive synthesis.
That's all it says on the website along with a nice big picture of a 3 oscillator synthesizer with an enormous patch bay that looks an awful lot like the Fenix II.
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Audio Damage says they want to buck the trend of "Robocop" wavetable synths and bring us something warm, deep and lovely to get excited about. It's called Continua and it's a virtual analog polysynth.
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With a dash of nostalgia, a pinch of evolution and a huge chunk of new content Korg works its magic on the Wavestation to give us Wavestate; a fabulously dynamic digital synth that never sits still.
Eurorack modular continues to generate interesting pathways into sound and synthesis and is becoming more accessible all the time. Here's our choice of modules that stood out this year.
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The next in their series of T-Networks inspired modules is the ADDAC 105. It has a square wave oscillator with 4 voices, FM, slew decay and a multimode filter.
Conjured Circuits has built the impressive-looking JP6 multimode voltage-controlled filter based upon the design of the Jove from System80 that was inspired by the filter on the Roland Jupiter-6.
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Deliciously harsh tones and resonant timbres emerge from this polyphonic box of synthesis from Gotharman's Music Instruments. Zybraz is coming like a character from a 70's Sci-Fi movie.
This week's free plug-ins: a synth with multiple synthesis techniques, a dark and menacing harpsichord and a cool filter. Say hello to MOLOSS, Darksichord and Filta!
UNION is what happens when a couple of virtual analogue oscillators get it on and have a bunch of wavetable kids while under the influence of a load of effects - and it's only £5.99
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The Solid Gold FX 76 Plus Octa-Fuzz is based on coveted Japanese octa-fuzz pedals from the past like the Univox Super Fuzz , Shin-Ei Companion and Ibanez Standard Fuzz. And it sounds pretty great.
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Cosmostronic were showing Dimensions at Synthfest over the weekend. They are calling it a multi-dimensional cosmic choir which is the best description of an oscillator I've heard in ages.
Somewhat in the shadow of the release of Kyra, the Waldorf STVC String Synthesizer is here to show us how to do the old string/vocoder thing properly.
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At last it's time to experience to full splendour of the Kyra from Waldorf. 128 voices of virtual analog sound generation with masses of filtering, effecting and modulation matrixing.
