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We’re all very much enjoying Gamechanger Audio’s exploration of the electromechanical motor based oscillator. We saw a huge behemoth of a keyboard instrument and a pedal based oscillator at NAMM. But now, demonstrated at Superbooth, Gamechanger has found a sweet spot with the Motor Synth desktop synthesizer and they’ve just launched it on Indiegogo. Motor […]
SpecialWaves first introduced us to their Mine S customisable MIDI controller 2 years ago with a disastrous Kickstarter campaign. It’s a beautifully designed modular MIDI controller with bags of potential that completely failed to reach its goal by quite a margin. They are back and this time its Indiegogo and more importantly it’s with a […]
Following on from the success of the WTF oscillator Dove Audio is now on Kickstarter with their latest module. The Waveplane Oscillator mixes four wavetables from for corners of an XY display in true vector synthesis style. Waveplane Oscillator It’s a simple concept that’s able to generate complex harmonic-laden wave-shapes. You have a square in […]
Not content with trying to wrangle our way through the complex nature of modular synthesis sound generation and CV control we now want to take on the visual content. Lightstorm from Strange Electronic is a module and case combination that offers a full spectrum of LED lighting to enhance your live shows or studio ambience. […]
The Dubler Studio Kit was funded in 46 minutes on Kickstarter this morning. It takes your voice, or another monophonic audio source, and turns it into MIDI notes. They call it a real-time vocal recognition MIDI controller and people seem quite excited about it. Pitch-to-MIDI I confess that this has me scratching my head a […]
We’ve had a flavour of SPICE recently in the 3 Eurorack modules Plankton announced over the NAMM weekend. But now the SPICE references start to make sense when we see these modules built into a single modular unit designed to boost, melt, crush, distort, warm, saturate and destroy. SPICE This is a desktop and Eurorack […]
Jan Willem, the man behind modular makers GinkoSynthese, has come across a shed load of old army cases. They found 100 that were in good enough condition to use for something interesting. That project has become The Raw Army Eurorack Case, a collaboration between GinkoSynthese and Error Instruments, and has just launched on Kickstarter. The Raw […]
The Resynator was the first digital, instrument-controlled synthesizer. It was a monophonic machine that tracked the pitch of any instrument plugged into it to produce synthesized tones. Something that technology still wrestles with to this day. Resynator The Resynator was invented by Don Tavel in the 1970s who died tragically in a car crash in 1988 […]
In this golden age of classic synthesizer recreations, it’s good to see someone pushing forward, or at least in some kind of 80’s TV show vision of futurism. Paramount Synth wants to build a fabulously futuristic looking polysynth from classic CEM 3340 oscillators to bring the sound of the Jupiter 8, Prophet 5 and OB-Xa […]
A month ago I reported on the State of The Loop Kickstarter campaign for a hardware foot controller for the Looper device in Ableton Live. It’s only a day away from the deadline and they’ve still got to find £8000 to reach their goal. Meanwhile over on Indiegogo DataLooper which is a very similar product […]