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This is Not Rocket Science was playing with some Curtis chips and came up with the RectangularThing, a dual oscillator synth voice with some very interesting sync and "Rambler" waveform generation.
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Forget your iWatch and your phone apps, strap a useful tool to your wrist. The Soundbrenner Core has a pulsing metronome, a magnetic tuner, decibel meter, multi-sync, DAW sync and even tells the time.
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Having trouble getting all your synths and laptops to sync together at your local synth jam? The Missing Link will fill in the gaps by turning Ableton Link into 5V Clock - but how many will you need?
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Kickstarter project midiglue is a box of tricks that mutually converts MIDI, USB and CV/Gate, it splits and merges, sequences and arpeggiates and has a bunch of MIDI effects. Perfect for sticking your gear ...
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Got a lot of USB MIDI gear knocking around? Well the RK-005 can host it and bring it all together into a single MIDI stream, clock to analog and then connect to a DAW or not. A super versatile MIDI interface.
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With the grit and spacey grunge of waiting for the last train home on a London Underground platform Softube's Tube Delay will patch itself beautifully into Modular and keep you repeatedly in the zone.
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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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Spooky Action will wirelessly sync your Eurorack to your computer or anything else running Ableton Link while kicking out multiples, divisions, reset gates and all sorts of clock.
Ken MacBeth reveals the successor to the legendary Elements synthesizer, the Elements EL2. The change to black is awesome, but other changes are more subtle - we should get to hear it at Superbooth.
The Audiophile Circuits League are here to protect us from mediocre oscillators with the Multi-Function Discrete VCO. Cool things include 5 waveshapes and pulse width modulation on both main oscillator and sub.
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The Pink-0 open source project investigated how to put Ableton Link sync technology into a Eurorack module. Seismic Industries appeared to have cracked it with SPINK0 and now I can sync my laptop to my modular!
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New for NAMM is a tidy little mixer called the Volca Mix for up to three (you've guessed it) Volcas. Includes a power splitter, filter, effects send, and sync out with tempo display.
How do you keep your old TR-808 in time with your DAW? DSP Synthesizers could have the simplest solution yet with the SYNC24USB which is just a USB MIDI to DIN sync cable.
From the people who brought you the Crazy8 sequencer comes an 8 track, 16 pattern drum sequencer called Crazy8Beats with MIDI and CV connectivity to run all your rhythms.
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Cakewalk have announced Momentum. A four-track recorder app for iPhone and Android that lets you drag and drop the audio from the Cloud directly into your DAW via a plug-in.
Version 2.2 of the Minitaur firmware brings in some very welcome modulation modes and waveforms and a nice bit of hard sync along with all the refinements we've been asking for.
