Working class heroes XAOC has 5 new shiny modules covering digital hacking, waveform processing, DSP effects, stereo mixing and delay. It's always fabulously intriguing stuff.
No doubt: Superbooth 2019 will be one of the year's hottest synth events anywhere - catch up with all the latest news and rumours from the FEZ Centre in Berlin.
Berlin-based IO Instruments are going to hit their first Superbooth with an ambitious range of interesting Eurorack modules at some very tantalising prices.
Expect to see Shepard: a 6-channel performance step-sequencer, Ellis: an 8-output CV controller and Leap: an ADSR and LFO at the forthcoming Superbooth.
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A small update to Reaktor brings a huge change to the Blocks environment - you can now patch directly in the front! Blocks Base is your free 24 module starting point and Primes doubles that up for €99.
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Starling is releasing "Via" for running multiple module firmware on a single hardware module. With different faceplates and open source software they could become any module you could ever want.
The modular system is said to contain McDSP's largest collection of processors to date - over 30 modules for EQ, compression, saturation, distortion, dynamics processing and others.
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Many products promised for 2018 didn't materialise. Did they vanish without a trace or are just taking longer than they hoped. We dug into our favourite missing synths of 2018 to find out.
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You can now design, program and build your own modules for personal use and explore polyphonic modules within the 1.1.1 update for Cherry Audio's Voltage Modular
Part sound generation but mostly audio processing, modulation and craziness wrapped up in a self-contained system. The Liquid Sky Dada Noise System is ideal for the most discerning sound designer.
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Voltage Modular is here but can it make a dent in the VCV Rack and Softube Modular market? It has 69 modules, a fruity look, an inbuilt shop, and a load of effects from PSP Audio - check it out.
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Would you let the sticky fingers of kids anyway near your Eurorack? DivKid does - in this new video he shows how a playful selection of modules and a CV controller can introduce kids to modular.
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It's been a bumper year for semi-modular synthesizers. Completely capable of being awesome in their own right but with a willingness to get patched into something greater. Here's our pick of the best.
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Abstract Data were showing off their ADE-40 Shaping VCO with inbuilt voltage controlled waveshaping and a couple of other forthcoming modules including a new feedback looped filter and an updated Logic Boss.
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Boutique module makers Instruó reveal two new analogue oscillators and complex cross modulating one, an ARP 2500 based filter and a CV generating mixer. Most are now available to buy on their updated website.
An image of a cat looking at a little skiff of unseen modules appeared on Instagram teasing some new modules from Busycircuits. Can you work out what they could be?
