The brightly-coloured new stompbox-style effects go against the dark UI trend that's been going on since Logic Pro X's release. Expect to see them as stand-alone products and in Komplete 12.
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The Microvolt 3900 was one of the stars of this years NAMM show. A perfectly formed semi-modular with 39 patch points and a creative approach to synthesis with wavefolding, filtering and a dynamic VCA.
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Propellerhead have released their flagship spectral wavetable synthesizer as a VST/AU plug-in. Will Europa by Reason be a unique port to the format or is this the beginning of a new era for Propellerhead?
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So often your tracks start with a beat and bassline. Native Instruments TRK-01 focuses on making this ridiculously fun and easy with a Kick and a Bass sequenced and modulated to within an inch of its life.
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The Alexander Pedals Defender combines a whole heap of effects into one little pedal, with noise mangling retro '80s bleeps and quacks available for the masses. Could this 'Stargate Drive' be the one for you?
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It doesn't have a name yet, or a printed faceplate but it has a lot of knobs with LED centres and 16 steps of CV and gate sequencing with many performance related controls and possibilities.
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The fabulous looking Electronic Sequence Designer finally gets fleshed out at Superbooth. 4 channels of CV/Gate plus MIDI and a very versatile and creative user interface that wants to be played with.
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EarthQuaker Devices have just released a very versatile DSP based boutique flanger that packs in a variety of very desirable flanging effects into one pedal.
Zadar uses deformable vector shapes to generate hundreds of different and manipulable envelopes across 4 channels of CV modulation goodness. This is no ADSR.
It's like a hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional, high-resolution MIDI controller but without the constraints that MIDI implies. CROW Intelligence wants to be the source of all modulation and fun stuff in your ...
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Felix Visser from Syntonovo has been working on a multi-dimensional keyboard long before MPE came along and now his XYZPression keyboard is almost ready to go and it's built into an analog synthesizer.
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A synthesizer for beginners says Rob Papen when in fact it's plenty good enough for all of us. All the parameters are on the page, morphing oscillators, unison chord modes, filters and effects - fabulous.
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Capacitive touch control of CV in multiple dimensions, sequencing, MIDI and with reassuring curves (arches) could be the modular (and more) controller that you've been waiting for.
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A beautiful looking 4 channel, 32 step, CV and MIDI stand-alone sequencer from Pittsburgh Modular will get it's first showing at Superbooth 2018. Could be totally stunning.
Stages offers 6 programmable segments of CV modulation that can combine into envelopes, loop into LFOs and step into sequences. Mutable Instruments continue to define the modular story.
Tracktion has released the public beta of BioTek 2. It's a new evolution of their organic/mechanic hybrid virtual synthesizer and brings new oscillators and presets by Richard Devine.
