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The extraordinary-looking Czochralski Cells from Destiny Plus is a configurable six or seven-voice complex electronic drum instrument.
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Flame has an 8-channel polyphonic drum and percussion synthesizer called FIRE. I wonder how long Flame has held onto that product name?
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Searching for a unique drum sound? We've selected some of the best drum machines for synthesizing your own drum sounds from scratch.
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Technology meets tradition as Lumen does an electronic take on the classic handpan acoustic percussion instrument. Can you feel the vibes?
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Making a timeless Christmas album is a little more challenging than you might think at first. We find out how to sound like Phil Spector!
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Roland releases a new level of sampling pad in the SPD-SX PRO. With a bunch of road-tested professional enhancements for the most demanding gigs.
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This week we've seen some beautiful new modules to elevate your modular and one that's determined to starve your system to destruction.
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More DSP-based modules from Noise Engineering. Tymp Legio is a percussion module with "Wackitude", and Polydactyl Versio brings multiband dynamics.
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Series 5 of Pittsburgh Modular's experimental modules takes us on an analogue ride with the Elephant Drum and the Narwhal Cymbal percussion modules.
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Raiju combines a complex digital oscillator, an ADSR envelope and an analogue lowpass gate to produce thunderbolts and lightning in percussive form.
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Samples of the week is here with products by Plugin Alliance, Spitfire Audio, Soundpaint, BeatSkillz, Heavyocity and others!
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This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes a delay with saturation, a distortion effect and a unique sampled Crystal Harp instrument.
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This week’s collection of freebies includes a full-blown software synth, some latin percussion and a gnarly distortion and filter plug-in.
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Clipmode DRoOM! is a unique beat construction kit that invites you to layer samples recorded in different rooms. We've tried DRoOM! for ourselves.
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The METRO from Magerit is inspired by the sort of DIY drum kits you see buskers play on the subway. METRO is a drum synthesizer and rhythmic sequencer in 13HP.
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Impressive looking machines are emerging from Flame with TAKT taking the rhythm and TON taking the melody complete with D-Beam interaction.
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Consequencer is a gate and stepped CV sequencer inspired by Mutable Instruments Grids and the Music Thing Turing Machine for elegant patterns of randomness.
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Chasing Lights offers 3 channels of analog 8-step trigger sequencing with channel chaining and clock dividing in a 22HP Eurorack module.
News from Behringer on the development of the Syncussion drum synthesizer and problems with chip shortages. Looks like 2022 is going to be slow.
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But you've got to be quick because the first production run is for only 15 VEGA modules at a special price for delivery at the end of January.
Whatever niche rap, dance and/or electronica you might be into, chances are you will find some usable drums in Dopesonix Beat Machine 3.
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Behringer spins the Moog DFAM into the colourfully semi-modular EDGE to run alongside their CRAVE synth with dual VCOs, sync and FM.
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Two independently triggered wavetable voices that share pitch, envelope and morphing and then split one voice into a tilt EQ and the other through a wavefolder for maximum versatility.
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We've got the official details on the leaked PERKONS drum machine. It's also a synthesizer, looks completely epic and is definitely something to do with THUNDER! Update: Now with video!