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Bastl Instruments' Kastle ARP is an alarmingly fun modular melody generator that forces sine waves through a digital waveshaper for tonal delights.
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Take 16 sine waves and 16 ratios and go to town creating Additive and Frequency Modulated tones in SineSynth from Ekssperimental Sounds.
The MSK 013 Middle Path VCO from North Coast Synthesis journeys between East and West Coast synthesis with a dual oscillator module for simple sounds and a sine shaper for complex waveforms.
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The new Magnetic Effects Electrochop optical tremolo pedal has a total of ten waveforms and can do subtle vintage tremolo to more modern, harder ones as well.
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SNID, or Sinusoidal Numeric Incremental Device, is a mini experimental modular device that responds well to resistors, capacitors, LEDs and mini patch wires
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The new Mattoverse Electronics TremStortion combines a complex analogue tremolo with the option of running it through its own built-in distortion, making it a very interesting boutique mash up of effects.
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The new Whitecap pedal is an 'asynchronous dual tremolo' combining digital and analogue sides that can be run in either series or parallel in a way we've never seen before.
Flower Pedals has reworked its Dandelion tremolo to version V2, adding new features to its lush-sounding analogue circuit. And there's even an update for V1 users for a measly USD 30.
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We found the demo sounds for the new Slö Multi Texture Reverb hugely inspiring, with dreamy, swirling ambiences that might be best suited for prog or experimental players. Worth checking out.
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Keeley aims to turn your guitar into a mono synth with the new Synth-1 pedal, including a handy expression pedal input, some fuzz tones and a Chaos Switch to keep things interesting.
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Sampleson has taken their Rhodes samples apart and found that they only need to tune sine waves to accurately recreate the entire spectrum of sound. Markus 88 is only 25MB and sounds like a 2GB instrument.
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With eight distinct modulation modes including a 'My Bloody Valentine' setting, plus a rather useful Flexi Switch system to momentarily engage the effect easily when required.
The Fulltone Supa-Trem Jr is a mini version of the original Supa-Trem but retains the all-analogue signal path based around the Opto-1 photocell and an Analog Devices JFET preamp.
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Boutique module makers Instruó reveal two new analogue oscillators and complex cross modulating one, an ARP 2500 based filter and a CV generating mixer. Most are now available to buy on their updated website.
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With Slow Rise, Slow Fall, Sine, Square and Harmonic tremolo effects all onboard, this new foot treadle operated tremolo effect looks like a really well thought out pedal design, but how does it sound?
We all secretly yearn for a Casio CZ synthesizer, well pour yourself a Cosmopolitan and you can have a dual Phase Distortion oscillator right in your rack ready to relive those 80's sounds.
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The Buchla 259e is the first officially licensed Buchla software emulation. It's called the Twisted Waveform Generator and there's plenty of sonic abuse in here that makes it worthy of the name.
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Dwarfcraft Devices' The Curse is a new delay pedal with a Horror theme that allows for some mean and extreme settings going into dark sonic territory - your average nice little delay box this ain't!
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When you need a warm chewy tremolo, you normally need a big old vintage valve amp from the '50s. Will this new effect do the job instead?
A round up of all the fabulous synthesizers and modular on display at the Sheffield SynthFest. The industry is changing, you could feel it in the circuits.
Here's the full skinny on the Roland System-8 Plug-Out expandable synthesizer with ACB technology. It's as awesome as we thought it would be.
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It's a voltage controller delay Eurorack module and no the cool name doesn't make any sense at all but I'm going with The Jellyfish.