In this week's Synth Deals, we've got a range of items for sound creation and music performance for beginners and professionals alike.
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In this series, we look at the Big Three Japanese manufacturers that have changed music. First up: the history of Yamaha synthesizers.
In this week's Synth Deals, you'll find a collection of creative tools ranging from desktop synths to analogue polyphonic keyboards.
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As the successor to the Leipzig-S, the Analogue Solutions Leipzig v3 offers analog synthesis in its purest form. We've given it a good test run.
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Sound Objects has collaborated with Modular Moon to create a Eurorack version of Sound Object #5 to add to their growing range of Sound Object synths.
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Boss has given its new OC-5 octave pedal some impressive specs, with enhanced, vintage-voiced monophonic modes, as well as modern day polyphonic octave modes.
This week's collection of free plug-ins includes a drum synthesizer, an EQ analyzer and two synths that sound great despite not being finished. Here's BANG!, EQ Curve Analyzer and Abandoned Synths.
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In episode 3 of a series of introductory videos on the 2600, Behringer has asked Patrick to takes us through the machine and gives us a demo of the sound. Grab a coffee and take a look.
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The Sequential Pro 3 is a future-retro mash up of beauty and technology blending 3 oscillators, 3 filters and 3 LFOs with digital FX and a 16-track sequencer.
What a bumper year for monosynths! We've pulled together the ones that have brought us the most joy, excitement and action over the last 12 months. The best 5 best monophonic synthesizers 2019 were...
The first shipment of the Behringer's Korg MS-20 clone known as the K-2 is on its way to the Thomann Music Store and they have just opened preorders for delivery in 2-3 weeks.
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Impulse Command is a ferociously dynamic stereo synthesizer that's built like a battleship console and doubles up on oscillators, envelopes, filters and sequencers - it's explosive!
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The red version of the MS-101 gets officially launched on the Behringer website and we now have all the details including a no-talking sound only video of the synth in action.
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Wait a minute this bears absolutely no resemblance to the original CRAFTsynth! CRAFTsynth 2.0 is not a fun little DIY synth it's a serious box of monophonic wavetable goodness so what's with the name?
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The Bob Moog Foundation Trifecta Raffle is giving you the chance to win one of three classic Moog synthesizers for the fabulous cause of supporting the development of the new Moogseum. Tickets $25.
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Marc Doty has released a new series charting the history of polyphony on his YouTube channel Automatic Gainsay. A master of synthesis and an engaging educator, grab a drink and settle down for some schooling.
Like a power source forged in the heart of an exploding sun the new and improved Dark Energy III oozes with analogue synthesizer action and opens itself up to a cool bit of modding.
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A new form of distorted synthesis discovered after a lab coding accident that has been likened to crashing data streams together is both painful and breathtaking. StarCruncher is somehow terrible and awesome.
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A gloriously shiny valve based monophonic synthesizer designed for a wind controller to produce a uniquely expressive and electronic sound. The tubes are used at every stage to create the sound.
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Hackspace experimenter Koka Nikoladze has constructed the BlinkWheel electromechanical step sequencer that's programmed by the placement of LEDs that blink and trigger samples as the wheel turns.
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A 3 oscillator analogue monosynth with 3 filters, a digitally controlled modulation section, arpeggiator, pattern generator and sequencer. Motas-6 is a powerful analogue synthesizer hand-built in the UK.
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The MBS-100 is a classic looking bass synthesizer in a Soviet era style. Designed and built in Moscow does it have enough grit and character to penetrate the crowded mono-synth market? Now with video!
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In a compact 6HP with monophonic and duophonic modes over 2 MIDI channels the Erica Synths Black MIDI-CV v2 can bring MIDI back into your Eurorack with ease and simplicity.
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The unexpected collaboration between Roland and analog synth masters Studio Electronics brings us the vintage looking SE-02: a fully analogue monosynth with sequencer, cross modulation and DSP effects