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Monat: März 2015

Synth 

Crowminius: Small DIY Minimoog (with CS80 PWM)

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Crowminius is a DIY synth (with display) that stems from the Minimoog with the PWM circuit from the CS80 by a guy called „old crow“ at Muff’s -> Presenting: Crowminius. UPDATE: it’s now up for $700 by Scott Rider with MIDI and ext. LFO – the rest is exactly like the Minimoog plus MIDI. it was aimed to fit onto one PCB and a small case MIDI, dual LFOs dedicated to oscillator PWM, the Power Supply That Does Not Suck   and it does sound already – like this: http://www.cs80.com/crowminius/CrowminiusDemo01.mp3 and yes, it’s…

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Blue Lantern – Dwarf Star – analog synth

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don’t know much about this – especially how it really sounds like it appears to me like they did modules and now try the Cwejman approach – here’s a cool looking synth (that isn’t meant negatively – it may be a good start to the (semi) modular world ..? I just post it because I kind of liked it when I saw it – it’s a classic • 2 OSC synth with classic wave shapes for each OSC • has 2 sub OSCs •2 ENVs – AR plus !? which…

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Roland Aira – analog Synth coming up – Reon in a Roland case?

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MusikMesse 2015: Here’s a pic taken by someone at GS – on the right you see REON Synths (Driftboxes I guess – btw very high quality sounding synth!). on the left is a „normal“ eurorack modular system and in between – there is a Aira-Styled something that does not seem to have patch jacks but may be some sort of: -UPDATE: no – driftbox, they got a new modular system for us called the System 500 and digital modules series! 1) System 1 tech modeling which is obviously very good and could…

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Hard Mod Electronics presenting (analog) Matrix Synthesizer

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Hard Mod Electronics are based in Mexico and just presented some images of an upcoming new device that looks interesting made of a Matrix – shown here (delivered by Ghielmetti, CH) they posted something about this thing coming up next – the real source synthi – sort of EMS inspired thing, so the matrix may play a role sooner or later in here.. ?   they also did a VL1 mod that looks totally nerdy and cool, like a heavily expanded synth with envelopes, echo, oscillators that are being controlled…

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15.-18.4.2015 – SynMag – Das Synthesizer-Magazin Stand E37 Halle 5.1 auf der Musikmesse (Frankfurt/M)

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Wir sind auf der Musikmesse (also ich auch) – Halle 5.1, Stand E37 Mit ein paar Synthesizern. Komm doch mal vorbei. Messe News gibt es hier – deshalb wird solange auch der Messe 2015 Knopf links zu finden sein, solang sie aktuell ist.   Der Lageplan (klicken für größer…) Wie man hier sieht, hat Korg ein paar Stände gebucht (Odyssey, Korg Sample-Electribe,…) und es sieht insgesamt auch so aus, dass der Roland JD Xa (der große) dann fertig sein wird. Vielleicht gibt es ja auch noch mehr Überraschungen… Schauen, schauen…

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Vince Clarke Tuning Modules via Analogue Solutions for analog synths (eurorack)

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Clarke is a new euro-rack based synth by Analogue Solutions. and as you might know – these are branded by Vince! This is a tuning system for analog synths in 16 bit resolution which should be enough for a good V/Oct. calibration.  teaser for upcoming videos: Master Module for MIDI – slaves can be more than one to control one EXACT Hz/V or V/Oct. with V or S Trigger each! watch the video above to get the idea how it works – it’s about like Volta or Expert Sleepers.. you…

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