fourMative CONTOURS: four single phase envelopes with complex combinations

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Vermona had a competition to come up with the confusing mix of majuscule-minuscule letters that form “fourMative CONTOURS”. It’s just a thing us peDanTic music technology journos have to deal with. However, it does quite cleverly and loudly describe the idea of a 4 channel envelope, which is what this is. And more, because it’s always […]

The Audiophile Circuits League take on a Monster Multi-Function Discrete VCO

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Hot on the heels of the development of their System 1 Stereo Synth comes a super wide monster of an oscillator. They are calling it simply the Multi-Function Discrete VCO, which is probably an understatement. I am loving that tuning knob, it looks like it comes off an old safe and gives you precise control […]

Malekko Downer and Thicken: Two new pedals that invite you to experiment

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Malekko Heavy has come up with two interesting new pedals named Downer and Thicken, both designed and built in Portland, Oregon. Both provide tools to get your sound to stand out from the crowd, but in different ways. Downer The Downer effect combines wavefolding/saturation with pitch shifting down to one octave below. Two filters are also provided, one high-pass and […]