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Gianluca Herbertson of Herb and Stones was demonstrating his Liquid Foam dual sequencing groovebox on the Hainbach Superbooth stream. He has some more interesting boxes coming soon.
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Flame has updated their remarkable Mäander desktop synthesizer and live sequencer with a massive wavetable expansion along with FM and a bundle of other tweaks and improvements.
SoundForce is building up quite a collection of hardware MIDI controllers aimed at specific software instruments. The SFC-8 is everything you need to control a software Jupiter-8 or even hardware ones
At long last, the Dust Collector analog multi FX unit from Superbooth 2019 is a reality and up for pre-order at EUR 480 apiece.
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Leaf Audio didn't want to let Superbooth 20 Home Edition pass by without a proper DIY workshop. You can join them online to build Noisefoc, an experimental oscillator. Registration is only open today!
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ALM has packed their range of modules into a complete modular system called System Coupe. Is that like a sporty 2-door version of Eurorack? It comes with 10 modules in a slick case ready to roll.
Shakmat has announced two new Eurorack modules: Bard Quartet and Dual Dagger. Bard Quartet is a 4-channel quantizer with a harmony feature. Dual Dagger ist a dual stereo filter.
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Amongst the new Fusion modules is an unassuming sequel to their VCA but this time it has twice the tubes, waveshaping and they've assimilated the Ring Modulator.
Tangible Waves goes DIY with the BraedBoard Module for their AE Modular format. Design your module on the Braedboard and then turn into a proper module with the DIY kit.
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From the awesome internal synth fiddling app Components Novation has added wavetable editing and uploading for their Peak and Summit synthesizers in the latest firmware update.
SWARM doesn't really know what it's doing and you don't know how to use it but we all need randomly generated and unrelated pattern loops in our lives and sometimes something musical is discovered.
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From ST Modular comes Dirty Dan, a vactrol-based filter and distortion that pulls 3 channels of sound through its despicable processes whether you like your distortion soft, hard or just plain dirty.
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Next in the fat Fusion line of valve-based modules is the VCF3 bringing softness and light with vactrol-driven resonant filtering and includes mixing, mult-ing and the ability to record CV modulation.
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The Fusion Modulator is a complex collection of modulation blocks including Synthi inspired looping unipolar and bipolar envelopes, VCA, Noise generation and Sample&Hold.
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The super-wide Behringer Eurorack Go case is now available for preorder and includes an internal 5 amp power supply with 32 bus power sockets for £230.
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Noise Lab out of Stockholm has 6 Eurorack modules ready for release including an Analog VCO, Wave Shaper, Interpolating Scanner, Dual Mode Filter, Envelope and Dual VCA.
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Ouroboros Electronics has revealed Alea, an intriguingly wooden, unlabelled and banana plug socketed 2-voice analog semi-modular synthesizer.
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Hypno is a complete digital video playground in a Eurorack module or little box that can generate seizure-inducing visuals for your modular performances.
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Elmyra is a platform for sonic exploration thru the weirdness of drones and implausibility of textures. It's inspired by that Godfather of weirdness the SOMA Labs Lyra-8 and you can build it yourself.
We've just heard that Superbooth 2020 has been cancelled. They were carrying on with never-fading optimism that the synthesizer show would go ahead but sadly it's been beaten by concerns for our health.
Update: Coronavirus is hitting musicians and music gear makers hard, with cancelled events, postponed tours and gigs... Will governments step in with financial help for those affected?
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Urs Heckmann from software synthesizer company U-he is booked for a live performance at Superbooth 20. It says that the performance is with Wiretap which we've never heard of before.
Covid-19 a.k.a. Coronavirus is starting to affect our little music instruments world - Musikmesse will be postponed, its organisers say. Will Superbooth and Summer NAMM go ahead?
With many large events cancelling or postponing in light of the spread of Coronavirus, Superbooth has just made a statement to say that until Berlin is declared unsafe then they are good to go.
