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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Waldorf Music celebrates 30 years in the business with a very limited edition version of what they are calling the Quantum Shadow. They will make only 30.
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The remarkably named Arbhar and Lubadh from Instruo are now available for preorder offering some really interesting pathways into modular-based sampling and granular manipulation.
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Steinberg has released an update to the rather wonderful Padshop virtual instrument and bringing samples together in a microcosmos of grains and spectra to discover completely new sounds.
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Falcon 2 decides that having every kind of synthesis and sampling is not nearly enough and removes all boundaries to let you play with infinite sonic possibilities. Sounds like fun!
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Devious Machines has released Pitch Monster, a pitch shifting and vocal processing plug-in. With granular, formant shifting and vocoder engines, Pitch Monster sends your vocals into another dimension.
The first piece of news we've had from the newly rebranded Reason Studios is to introduce Scenic. It's described as a cinematic hybrid instrument for tension, suspense, relief and joy.
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Puremagnetik has released Zerone, a granular effects processor that shoots your audio to pieces with its laser eyes. These particles are then time compressed or expanded to create ambient soundscapes.
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Creative Intent has released Remnant, a grain and tape delay plug-in for intricate experimental soundscapes. With a tape delay and two grain delay lines, it manipulates audio in many creative ways.
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Delta-V Audio's SpaceCraft granular synth has been orbiting iOS for about a year but now with the help of Tracktion it's being brought into land on the planet of desktop so we can all have a ride.
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As if Granular Synthesis was not complex enough Accsone has introduced Grain Controlled Oscillators to dance within the life cycle of modulated grain modulations. Embrace the madness of Crusher-X 8.
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Output has released Portal, a granular effects plug-in. Portal lets you run any input signal through its granular synthesis engine, and shape it with modulation and additional effects.
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Load Runner pulls grains off your 16bit wav files and chases them about. Lots of CV control over all parameters, nice big waveform display and very hands-on.
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Mystical granular manipulation with the Instruo arbhar. 6 layers of recording directly into the module via inputs or integrated microphone and get manipulating those voltage controlled grains.
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Tiny LD takes the Little Deformer 3 firmware of 16 parts synth, sampler or noise, effects, audio recording, granulation and sequencing and packs it into a much smaller box.
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Craft your own plane, train, rocket, bike, alien, chopper and automobile engine sounds with Igniter, a fascinating granular sampling and synthesizer sound design machine.
