23.11.2013 – Elektron Analog Keys – released (key’ed version of Analog Four)

UPDATE: Keyboard Version of Analog Four is out – Analog Keys (via CDM/Peter Kirn’s wonderful blog!) not so different from the Analog Four Groovebox but it has Keys, a small Joystick – so it is basically comparable to other analog synths but with 4 voices, it might fill some space since polyphonic analog synths are quire rare.. and it is 3 Octaves (which I love and prefer over 2 octaves) until now the Analog Four has not been polyphonic but 4x monophonic – one synth per track. this seems to…

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Future Retro Mondovox – Poly

Future Retro Mondovox  is basically a MIDI Engine that helps every Synth to be expanded: 1) add similar synths to get polyphony 2) add similar synths to double/add more voices 3) unison layer multiple sounds 4) any other version like randomly address synths, poly chasing and chaining synths, chord memory and rotation of voices the Oberheim SEM style.. Future Retro MondoVoxDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen

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film tip: ELEKTRO MOSKVA – Synths and Music &.. KGB

this film is about the early russian elektronic music, the instruments and everything that you might think of russia as a country, as a system of that time that influenced all this – possibly more than here in the 2 germanies at that time? an ultravivid scene derived from Theremin, Polivoks and Junost Synths in between of vodka bottles, Moskwitsh and spoons.  – looks like a film to love because it is different, so this is another planet, world and … it’s elektro!! buy one of those synths at some…

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Controller Synth 

Haken Audio – Eagan Matrix + Continuum Fingerboard making the controller even more expressive

Es gibt einen Test zum Continuum Fingerboard im aktuellen SynMag #41 dazu gibt es jetzt ein neues Zusatzpaket… there’s a new hardware and software addition to make the Continuum Fingerboard more expressive and dynamic – the EaganMatrix – named after Ed(mund) Egan, who had several very musical demos up at Haken (sometimes using Kyma). but this one is sort of everything – sound generator – expansion and more .. here’s the musical explanation – listen!: the details and screenshots : Haken Audio | Nov2013. and the hardware box: even more important –…

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PandaMIDI – Wireless MIDI at reasonable price (99€)

2 little boxes driven by AAA batteries (transmitter). it’s as simple as it looks – plug it in, insert fresh batteries per weekend and have the other box, the receiver get your MIDI signals ready somewhere at the back line to control your CRAY or racks by a simple and light MIDI Controller or Synth.. the receiver is USB-equipped, so you can just plug in your computer without a MIDI interface. where to mount the transmitter? right in the back maybe? like on the AX7 remote keytar?.. its 99,90€ for…

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PPG WaveGenerator coming to the Mac & Windows

the Wavegenerator App by PPG will be available as a plugin. this images says it all. Wavegenerator is the 2013-version of the PPG Wave 2.X Serie and all of it’s predecessors when speaking of the way to handle the waves and wavetables. it has lots of more of it all.. finally the only one offering real wave table building and editing right in the same software – on the hardware especially the Waldorf ones the edits where only available to extra editors – most of them do no longer work since that was the…

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Cybersound Modular Synthesizer – Workshop

a new Dotcom-Style/Moog size Modular will be shown soon.. 4x VCO 4x Filter (1x Moog, 1x Arp 2600, 1x Steiner Parker, 1x EMS) 4x Hüllkurve  2x LFO 1x Quadrature LFO 1x Noise / Sample & Hold 2x Ringmodulator 1x Multiple 2x AC/DC Mixer 4x VCA 1x Saw Animator 1x Federhall 1x 4-fach Panning Mixer Ein neues Modulsystem namens Cybersound von Christian Fischer wird am 7.12.2013 am Bodensee gezeigt werden. Nach 7 Monaten und 2 Jahren Planung ist das 4stimmige System nun da. Cybersound Modular Synthesizer Workshop.  

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Patch Morpher for Hardware Synths on iPad

Patch Morpher  is a patch designing tool for these hardware synths by Richard Meyer: – Moog Voyager– Dave Smith Prophet 08– Dave Smith Prophet 12– Korg KingKorg – Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1 it’s because you need to start somewhere. but what does it do? Patch Morpher for iPad – Demo!Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen it designed to do multiple things – one of it is connecting parameters to one control and being able to move it and to get interpolating “ morphing changes like on the Clavia Nord Synths. also it can convert…

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