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The EF209 is the self-proclaimed Drone King by pedal manufacturers Electro Faust. It features 6 oscillators and numerous modulation possibilities.
There are many reasons for choosing a filter; price, sound, popularity, but why not start with what we think are the best filter modules for cutting tones and slicing frequencies in your Eurorack.
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2getheraudio Space Duck is a new delay and reverb plug-in with integrated ducking. It also offers many extras for creative sound design, including a bit crusher, format filter and more.
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From Arcaico and Scuderia comes WARHORSE thundering into your rack pulling some hefty VCA integrated distortion, BBD delay and Wasp style filtering. Available as a Eurorack module or guitar pedal.
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Coming to Kickstarter soon is the impressive-looking Implexus from Majella Audio that takes waveshaping and folding through an analogue signal path of East and West Coast-inspired synthesis.
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The Glou-Glou Steak is an amazing 100% analogue dual/parallel distortion/fuzz with onboard filters, modulation and its own LFO. This beast can do classic rock to full-on insanity and back again!
Initial Audio Dynamic Delay is a stereo delay with an integrated ducker. This means that you no longer need an external compressor to accomplish the popular delay ducking effect. Sounds like a winner!
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Dove Audio has found a bunch of old Korg NJM2069 VCF/VCA chips and fashioned them into a new 5U Moog module. The chip was used in synths like the Poly800, DW8000 and DSS1.
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Modelled after the classic Sennheiser VSM-201 vocoder as used by Kraftwerk, Herbie Hancock, Boney M and Battlestar Galactica the XILS X-201 brings that immediately recognisable sound back to life.
This week's roundup of the best free plug-ins brings us a filter with lots of rhythmic glitching and a FET-based saturator. Also, the wonderful Valhalla Space Modulator is now free for everyone!
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The Typhon is a quirky combination of analog synthesis, sequencing and digital effects in a very cool collaboration between Dreadbox and Sinevibes.
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Iridium features all the synthesis elements of the Quantum synthesizer in a solid metal desktop format with more polyphony but without the analog filters, keyboard and premium price tag.
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Love the sound of vintage samplers and lo-fi digital effects? Check out 8Bitm8 by Midierror. The hardware bit crusher turns any signal into a digital pile of rubble. It even has an arcade button!
Mutable Instruments has quietly given the Ripples filter and Shades mixer/attenuverter an upgrade and a spruced up look to bring them more in keeping with the current line-up.
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RetroVOLT is a virtual instrument that combines a rompler sound engine with a synthesizer architecture for some magnificently 80's synth-pop sounds.
Conjured Circuits has licensed the System80 Jove filter and brought it to the Moog Modular (MU) format so that big modular enthusiasts can enjoy that creamy Roland Jupiter-6 sound.