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The updated Drone Tone MK III from Mattoverse Electronics lets guitarists add a synth drone to their guitar sound from this compact, easy-to-use pedal, which now has a tap tempo control.
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Grab a mic and start humming tunes into the Dubler Studio Kit to control synthesizers and make beats with just your voice. Has Vochlea found a cool use for pitch-to-MIDI technology?
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Could the new TC Electronic Brainwaves pitch shifter be serious competition for the Digitech Ricochet and Whammy pedals? In a word: Yes. And this one has all that TonePrint gadgetry going on, too.
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Ernie Ball VPJR Tuner Pedal is now official. Though perhaps not quite as original as we first thought. Possibly a Shnobel Tone clone?
The new Pigtronix Resotron pedal uses the SSM2040 chip found in the classic Prophet 5 and Octave CAT synthesizers and lets you get funky with them.
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Looks like a right beast, this one! The new Mooer GE300 multi-effects and amp modeller is still in development but is to receive a preview showing at NAMM 2019.
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French upstarts Collision Devices' have launched the Black Hole Symmetry pedal, a unique take on some classic guitars pedal effects combined into one very interesting and creative package.
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FM is notoriously annoying to program. Dtronics DT-RDX pulls out 50 FM parameters from the Yamaha Reface DX and puts them under your fingers for immediate, tactile and intuitive knob fiddling.
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Electro-Harmonix has expanded the Canyon Delay, and not just in terms of its size: The Grand Canyon is a full-blown delay and looper with tap tempo, more presets and lots of control for decent money.
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The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Reflector Chorus V3 now with a more refined those sound and a new Washed reverb chorus mode added. This modulation effect can chorus, pitch, flange and warble with the best of them
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Equal parts nuts and awesome the AX-Edge is the coolest thing ever. Any normal person would feel ridiculous but in the hands of the right sort of extrovert this thing is gonna rock!
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When your vocalist is too drunk, late or too self-important to show up, try loading Vocaloid 5 and have a refreshingly hassle-free vocal session in multiple styles, voices and in your own words.
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This is not a DIY clone or approximation, Softube has an official Mutable Instruments Clouds module for their Modular virtual Eurorack virtual instrument.
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The Thereminator adds more dimensions to a Theremin performance with three positionally controlled triggers or gates to either the pitch or volume antennas. Trigger drums, samples and sequences as you play.
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The Qu-Bit Nebulae 2 can sample up to 5 minutes of audio, pitch it, twist it, granulise, mangle it and slice it back out in stereo. It will also take alternative firmwares to become many other things too.
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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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You want country style bends, but don't want to ruin your guitar with routing? Well then forget the B-Bender and get yourself a Pitch Pilot instead, it's simple to fit and easy to use.
If you want even more control over your Digitech Whammy or an Eventide H9 pedal, the Pitchy is a great way to coax more from both - and it is well priced too!
Scheduled for Q2 2018, version 4 of the classic software vocoder that first appeared in 1998 has been "fully reworked" and does come with a bunch of significant improvements.
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Fracture is an extraordinary module of bursting noise, percussive shakes, claps and rhythmic applause from the generation of particle clouds from micro samples.
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Auto-Tune is 20 years old and reaches version 9, or Auto-Tune Pro as they are calling it. Revamped interface, key and scale detection, ARA support and low latency mode amongst the improvements.
A brand new polyphonic pitch shifting mini pedal from Mooer, the bright red Pitch Step will debut at the NAMM Show and looks like serious competition for Digitech and its Whammy pedals.
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Give your keyboard solos a bucket full of expression with the Sonic Manipulation Vibe Bar. Roll it and wobble it for pitch bend and expressive vibrato with the natural use of your playing hand.
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Cockos have announced that Reaper will receive the long-awaited ARA (Audio Random Access) in the next version which will mean complete integration of Celemony Melodyne.
