The first DS-80 design kept the bank of preset sliders and had a very small ribbon, the second design put the performance controls out of reach. Uli is hoping third time's the charm.
It's a lot of synth for the money - ONE comes with 2 oscillators and a sub oscillator, a pair of filters, wave shaper, two LFOs and 3 modulation envelopes; and a total of 24 polyphonic voices.
Uli Behringer has improved upon his design of the DS-80 after taking on board many of the comments from the synth community. There's still some work to do though.
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The updated Drone Tone MK III from Mattoverse Electronics lets guitarists add a synth drone to their guitar sound from this compact, easy-to-use pedal, which now has a tap tempo control.
Superbooth 2019 was packed with inspiringly fabulous noise making machinery and sound shaping systems of synthesis - our synth expert Robin has plucked out his 5 fave synths from the show.
The SE-1X 2019 is a reissue of classic clone of a classic synthesizer from a time when no one was doing analogue. Back for a limited time the SE-1X has become legendary in its own right.
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The SB-1/Space Bee is the deepest darkest tribute to the classic Roland SH-101 featuring 10 hours of rechargeable portability, a dual channel sequencer and sequence saving.
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Check out the thick animated sound of this unfinished prototype Super 6 polyphonic synthesizer. It offers a full stereo signal path per voice with all sorts of phasing and detuning.
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The Motor Synth from Gamechanger Audio looks phenomenal and uses electromotors to generate its 4-note polyphonic and 2 voice analogue sound. Coming to Kickstarter soon.
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Korg has a little DIY fun digital synth under development about the size of the Monotron but it just happens to be able to run Multi-Engine custom oscillators and effects from the Prologue/Minilogue!
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Novation release Summit their new flagship polyphonic synthesizer which is like two Peaks stuffed into a keyboard but with almost every parameter out on the front panel. How will they top that?
It's less than a week since Yamaha asked around for interest in reissuing the CS-80 synthesizer and now Behringer has a complete design for their own DS-80 on the table and are asking for input.
Steinberg and Music Mind Labs have got together to turn virtual instrument Retrologue 2 into a hardware desktop synthesizer via their ELK MusicOS. The prototype will be revealed at Superbooth.
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Fantastic new synthesizer coming from Novation which mashes together the Peak and the SL MkIII controller keyboard into one marvellously polyphonic synthesizer. Novation has reached the Summit!
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Keeping the dual nature of the original NYX the NYX V2 expands and deepens the possibilities and the patching into other modular gear. Check out this preliminary video.
We all love a new Volca and this one has the synth community in deep discussion over what a Nutube based synthesizer might sound like. The Korg Volca Nubass - real or fake?
