While Between Machines' KEEPER generated the most interest the QLOCKER algorithmic sequencer crept under the radar. Let's check it out.
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The LepLoop is a minimalist electronic music live performance analogue groovebox with 4 rhythm tracks and one capacitor-based analogue sequencer track. Now with video!
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From Acid Rain comes Constellation, an 8-channel pattern generator that creates long, complex and fascinating trigger/gate rhythms by poking Euclidean with a stick.
Mystic Circuits has a module that will transform your poor attempts at dance music into fresh and exciting rhythms. IDUM, where have you been all my life?
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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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Casio has been teasing their new keyboard with an "Are You Ready?" campaign and now the CT-S1000V is here, it's weird, fun and innovatively vocal about it.
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Noon is an 8 channel powerless instrument that's strangely powered by incoming voltages giving it a natural and organically activated breath. This should be good!
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New in the LIVEN range of musical groove boxes comes Bass&Beats that combines a wavetable bass engine with a library of EDM focused rhythm sounds.
Novation has been a bit cagey about their new Circuit Rhythm due out in the summer but more details have appeared on a Dutch webstore - let's dig in.
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The pursuit of perfection and authenticity has brought 4 black buttons to the RD-8 MKII and a lot of redesigning under the hood. BACK IN STOCK!
Sampling, beat-making and performance are the cornerstones of the officially revealed Circuit Rhythm but we won't see it until the summer.
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Novation has some teasers to share ahead of the official release of the new Circuit Track and Circuit Rhythm in about a week.
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It's definitely ready this time, just a couple of finishing touches and the RD-9 will be on its way from the factory. Check out this demo.
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Under development is an analog/digital hybrid drum machine called Drumlogue with sampling, analog channels and customisable oscillators and effects.
An online store accidentally published photos of what looks like two new Circuits inbound from Novation: Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm.
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Remember the Kastle pocket-sized patchable synth? Well, this is the Kastle Drum its unruly rhythm-based sibling for industrial glitchy grooves.