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Here's a round-up of the cool things our resident synth specialist Robin Vincent found at the electronic music technology synth-fest that is Superbooth 2017.
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How do you fit a proper mixer into 3U Eurorack? The Hexmixer and Hexpander from Befaco have solved it in a 6 channel mixer that fits vertically in two rows.
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Erica Synths reveal a computerised, old-school, keypad driven 16 channel Drum Sequencer that will trigger your whole world. Love that keypad - classic!
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Erica Synths has a new Black Dual VCF that features two identical filters in series or parallel with a rather nice LED spectrometer.
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Modor have taken their NF-1 digital synthesizer and squeezed it into a much more portable box and called it the NF-1m.
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Get your geek on with Nerd Seq, a hybrid Music Tracker sequencer for Eurorack with sample sequencing and cartridge expansion.
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Bastl digitise the tape delay and let you play in the space between "Thyme" based effects (see what they did there?)
Kilpatrick Audio made a GameBoy for music geeks and called it the Tungsten! It has a color display, quasi-PlayStation controls to the left and right, and step sequencer buttons...
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6 independent wavetable oscillators, with 6 independent wavetable LFO's operating within a sphere of wavetables. I think you need a Spherical Wavetable Navigator.
Quantum is the first Presonus interface to have DC coupled outputs for running analog, trigger, or control signals to Eurorack gear. The Quantum is designed to run at low buffer sizes with very low latencies ...
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Prepare yourself as multi-timbral phase modulation sampling hits Eurorack in the shape of Rossum Electro-Music's Assimil8or
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Crusher-X granulates audio in elaborate ways for sound designers and guitarists. The new version brings masses of reverb, tuning and modulation.
Music Thing has a bunch of prototypes on the Thonk stand including the Startup headphone amp, mixer, LFO, a Graphic EQ, Spring Reverb 2, Magnetophon and Chord Organ.
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U-He develop their Repro-1 monosynth into the polyphonic Repro-5 with quite stunning results. Apparently inspired by an old Sequential Circuits synthesizer.
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Yamaha are showing a Reface CS being played and manipulated by a robot interface designed by Anno Labs. Is the Reface Robot science fiction or an exciting new direction?
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A nebulous and shimmering sound of exquisite and unfamiliar timbres - this is the Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer
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Winter Garden are presenting their Eloquencer, an 8 track sequencer dripping with per-step probability and pattern generating randomness.
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Behringer's Midas team reveal the 2 "new" synthesizers promised for Superbooth. We have a DeepMind 12 Desktop and a DeepMind 6 - Oh, I'm slightly disappointed.
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A new paraphonic analogue synth and sequencer box from Novation. The Circuit Mono Station Synthesizer is Novation's second big reveal of Superbooth 2017.
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A day before Superbooth is due to open images of the Novation Peak leak onto a couple of music store websites and the front cover of next months Sound On Sound magazine. Now with video preview!
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Superbooth 17 is a synthesis and music technology festival held in Berlin between 20th-22nd April. Here's all the news, previews and leaks of what we can expect to see at the show. (Updated 19/04).
Doepfer head to Superbooth with a whole bunch of new and diverse modules. From oscillators to mixers, switches to mini keyboard triggers.