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The Dreadbox Telepathy module is a full voice analogue synth module with multichaining via MIDI and plenty of sound creation capabilities.
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We get a long-awaited pricing and shipping announcement on the PRO-800 8-voice polyphonic analogue synthesizer clone and a new video.
Waldorf has announced a new version of the M wavetable synthesizer. The M 16Voice builds in a whole other 8 voices to bring the total to 16.
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This year's new synthesizers mixed up bold ideas, nuanced pathways, reissues and plenty of vintage vibes. Here are my top 5 synths of 2022.
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Can you squeeze an 8-voice analogue polysynth into a reasonably sized Eurorack module? Hampshire Electronics believes it can; it's called The Vulcan.
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128 voices of virtual analog sound generation with masses of filtering, efx and modulation matrixing, and now with a handsome new sea blue paint job.
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RYK has been teasing a module on Insta for some time, but after being all over Loopop's Misha video we know it's the Vector Wave, and it looks amazing
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Prophet-5 Rev4 owners can now upgrade their synthesizers to 10 voices and a new OS lets all 10-voice owners do a bi-timbral stack or split.
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Plinky is a playfully melancholic polyphonic synthesizer in Eurorack or desktop form that wears its fragility in a touchable interface.
A little bit too close to April Fools day Behringer has revealed a prototype of the Polyeight based on the Korg Polysix with a couple of extra voices.
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GForce Software has captured the huge sound of the legendary Oberheim 8-Voice synthesizer and stuck it in the OB-E virtual instrument for Apple Mac.
Wavefonix has released the first glimpse of their forthcoming Poly-8 range of polyphonic Eurorack modules with the massive Poly-8 VCO and there's much more to come.
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From SynthFest France we have The Töörö 6-voice, 4-part digital/analogue polysynth that's colourfully industrial, capable of complex sounds and houses a fabulous analogue filter. Now on Kickstarter!
WAVIATRIX will fire off 24 samples in response to buttons or trigger inputs with looping, polyphony and pitch control. Opens up huge soundscape potential in 5U Moog Modular.
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After the image of this impressive-looking new synthesizer leaked yesterday we now have all the details of Arturia's PolyBrute 6-voice, 2 oscillator analog flagship polysynth.
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We felt something like this, something huge was going to drop from Arturia and we weren't wrong. The PolyBrute is Arturia's new flagship polysynth and it's a beauty.
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You tried a bit of free chaos with Pendulate but now embrace the animated unpredictability of 5 types of chaotic oscillator in the fully fleshed out Generate by Newfangled Audio and Eventide.
The 1.2 firmware for the VCMC and CV Thing lets you convert multiple V/Oct notes into MIDI notes within a single gate and has a very cool Web Editor for easier configuration.
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Revealed at NAMM but now shipping is the Qu-Bit Surface multi-timbral physical modelling Eurorack voice for plucks, strikes, bangs, chokes and spatialized stereo.
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Iridium features all the synthesis elements of the Quantum synthesizer in a solid metal desktop format with more polyphony but without the analog filters, keyboard and premium price tag.
Fury-800 is a nicely realised Poly-800 classic polysynth from 1983 with 64 voices, sequencer and chord memory. Did we mention that this is, er, completely free?
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We caught a taste of the revamped and as yet unannounced Moog Subharmonicon a couple of days ago and now there's a new video while the Moog website remains mysteriously silent.
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Another beautifully sleek box of oscillators from Krischer, this time it has eight of them all ready to go in the M8 analogue polyphonic synthesizer. If it's just oscillators is it really a synth?
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"Greg's Harp" is an extraordinary mechanically and robotically musical device with 3 strings excited in 3 different ways that generate some wonderfully unearthly sounds.