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Launched way back in 1982, the Roland Juno series remains one of the most popular designs ever. We check out some of its modern recreations.
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Essence Plus is a free 3-oscillator polysynth with a seriously fat unison mode. Check it out in this week's collection of free plugins!
V-X Multimode Vocoder is a new Rack Extension from Reason Studios - a creative and fun vocoder that's competent nonetheless.
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Arturia has released the Microfreak 4.0 firmware update with user wavetable import, faster scrolling, new presets and more.
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How many? An 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer featuring 56 oscillators, chord memory, detuning, filter and reverb in a single compact 12HP module.
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Behringer has revealed the outcome of their Model D Warp Drive tease video - it's a polyphonic version called the Poly D and it looks like a proper synth - hooray! UPDATE: Preorders open for £599!
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The Demon Core Oscillator is Supercritical's answer to polyphony in Eurorack. The oscillator module gives you stackable unison the Expander brings MIDI polyphony and 4 part CV with integrated envelope
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More voices and oscillators in unison than you could possibly use, doubling up on filters and arpeggiators and a complete wavetable editor make this one decent upgrade.
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Aparillo is all about unfolding the life of sound through the manipulation of sine waves, synthesis, harmonics and modulation. Or you can just move stuff about to produce some fabulous soundscapes.
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With its arcade style interface and retro 80's vibe WaslioFM ticks the right nostalgia boxes. But with multiple unison modes and detuning of 8 voices per operator it's futuristic enough to make it fresh and ...
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A synthesizer for beginners says Rob Papen when in fact it's plenty good enough for all of us. All the parameters are on the page, morphing oscillators, unison chord modes, filters and effects - fabulous.
This mother of a pedal is all about bringing us guitarists some heavenly synth tones - but be warned: Mothership 2 not for the faint-hearted! This purple pedal might get your head in a twist...
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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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The anticipation up to the Dreadbox Abyss April release is starting to build. Check out these fabulous new images but how much would you pay for 4 notes of analog synth?
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Fresh from LA LA Land the ROLI Seaboard controllers now come with FXpansion's STROBE2 analogue modelling polysynth
UA launched the Apollo Twin MkII at NAMM 2017. Do the features match UAD's hype? So far it looks like a successful product tweaked, rather than a redesign...
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The Polygene can give you 4 note polyphony over your Eurorack from a MIDI input and also arpeggiate and sequence back out again
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It's a Minimoog! Sorry for the spoiler but someone had to say it out loud. The Legend is apparently the most meticulously analogue modeling of circuitry ever attempted. What do you think?
Come on Behringer, not sure we can cope with any more teasing, show us the synthesizer already!