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InclusiveTech has hit Kickstarter with a project to produce the CVLight. It’s a little patch socket plug with an embedded LED that responds to control voltage and gives you a visual indication of what CV is doing in your rack. CVLight It’s not a totally new idea but a very useful one. Plug one into […]
Folktek is a slightly mysterious artistic collaboration who erratically produce extraordinary instruments and Eurorack modules that are works of art. They seem to pop up from time to time with something amazing and then fade away leaving you feeling like they may never surface again. But this time they are about to return with a […]
I hadn’t expected to want to become a laserist but now I do. Radiator is a laser synthesizer that could zap your live performances into a sci-fi future. Laser show? I know what you’re thinking: lasers are all a bit passé, sort of fun in a 1980s dry-ice kind of way, but they are like […]
The Coma Tone guitar pedal is advertised as follows: “It doesn’t do anything. It doesn’t need to.” So, perfect for guitar tone purists, then. Coma Tone by Shy Boyz You can watch Henning Pauly demonstrate the new Coma Tone pedal by Shy Boyz in the YouTube video below. It comes packaged in a very fancy wooden box and is part of […]
The new Subfretboard System Project is a new approach to building guitar fretboards. Its designers are now trying to raise funding via Kickstarter to get this off the ground. So what is the Subfretboard? Basically, it’s a fingerboard, but unlike any standard guitar fretboard you’ve ever seen. Rather than a piece of wood with metal frets embedded […]
No, that’s not an audio interface! The SUONOBUONO nABC, which was just launched on Kickstarter, is “not Another Boring Compressor”. And boring it ain’t, that’s for sure. The nABC lets you control and trigger the compression using various methods including CV/Gate, USB, MIDI, and even a pedal. If you’re into creative sidechain compression, keep reading. […]
ROLI has a new teaser video out for a new product that will be “The only keyboard that lets you play great songs, right away”. ROLI wants to do something about how hard it is to learn to play the piano. After all “it’s 2019 and our cars speak to us and drones deliver groceries”. […]
We caught a glimpse of a very intriguing machine coming from Pittsburgh Modular. Now the Voltage Research Laboratory has been fully revealed and is being released via Kickstarter. Let’s “Explore the Natural Systems and Lesser Known Fringes of Analog Synthesis”. Voltage Research Laboratory They are calling it the Organic Modular Synthesizer and it is certainly […]
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. […]