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Based on Artisan Electronic's Nucleus voice card, the Iliad is a custom-built synth offering from 4 to 16 voices of analog and digital oscillations.
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Knobcon 10 took place last weekend and was full of fascinating modular, synths and fabulous performances. Here are a few things that caught my eye.
Therevox builds modern analogue synthesizers inspired by the Ondes Martenot. The Ondes VCO recreates the building block of this historic machine.
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Knobcon 9 hosted all sorts of synths, modules and devices we hadn't seen before. With the help of JAde Wii's camera work, let's see what we missed!
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First seen at Knobcon and now heading to Superbooth Marc Doty was carrying a brand new updated version of the iconic Buchla Music Easel.
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VCV was at Knobcon showing the latest version of VCV Rack which includes a fabulous UI redesign, lots of enhancements and the option to run it as a VST plugin.
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Osiris has 4 banks of 32 wavetables, each with 32 waveforms constructed from 256 samples, running at 96kHz - how's that for fidelity?
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Michigan Synth Works will be showing their MSW-810 synthesizer based on the obscure Roland DG CMU-810 at Knobcon this weekend.
Knobcon Number Nine is finally confirmed as going ahead this weekend 10th-12th September after suffering all the usual Covid chaos. It is on!
Erica Synths announce Pico System III single face-plate modular analogue synthesizer with Voicecard preset management for storing and recalling patches just like the Buchla Music Easel - wow!
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STG Soundlabs introduce us to a new oscillator, put a power supply and some modules into a discarded Moog Mother-32 case and call it the Radiophonic 1 monosynth.
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Knobcon this weekend will hopefully reveal a lot of wonderfully electronic sound making machines. First up are the first images of the production version of Behringer's RD-808 Rhythm Designer drum machine.
The beta version of VCV Rack offers 27 virtual Eurorack modules from the likes of Mutable Instruments, Befaco and Synthesis Technology. It's free and gives you an entire Eurorack modular system on the desktop.
The Vixen mixer from KVgear will mix and power up to 8 Korg Volcas and is also the size of one. A neat idea coming to Kickstarter and synth jams everywhere.
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Modal Electronics announce the CRAFTrhythm, an 8-track drum and percussion sampler in the same DIY form as the CRAFTsynth. Good, cheap, fun.