Koma SVF-201 Analogue State Variable Filter Module

First Module by KOMA, euro rack format filter based on vactrols (optical components).  all 3 filter types can be used simultaneously. (or notch when mixed together as known from other modules of this kind like the Oberheim SEM, …) it has parallel mounted PCBs – can be used in skiffs – total depth is less than 4 cm. THE SPECS ARE:* 4 audio outputs: Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass, Mix Out * 1 audio input with attenuator / adjustable gain * CV input for Cutoff with attenuator * CV…

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Moog Minitaur Revolution 2 enables patch presets and CV to MIDI and routable as well

Moog upgraded the Minitaur to Rev2, that is enough to save 100 patches and jump through them with one key hold as „SHIFT“ key – which is quite clever to handle. – and Decay and Release now control different things in „one time for decaying envelope“ mode. this works from the panel, no software needed. the best one is this: Minitaur’s CV and Gate inputs are now assignable from the Minitaur Editor/Librarian software. The Pitch and Mod CV inputs can be routed to any function, while the Gate input can…

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Boomstar 4075 Analog Synth Demo (Arp Model)

Studio Electronics new synth will be available in 4 flavours, one of them being the ARP filter one, here’s the demo – all with distortion and saturation.  said something on this quite a time ago große Umfrage – welcher Analogmonosynth ist wirklich cool (neu):  Forum: Welcher neue Analogsynthesizer ist wirklich interessant? GAS-Umfrage: Neuanaloge… 1x Multi Timbral, 1 Voice, (2012) Studio Electronics Boomstar 3003, Boomstar 4075, Boomstar 5089 AnalogSynthesizer   &Boomstar SEM Analog Synthesizer  

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2 Projects introduced – Raspberry Pi running Pure Data / Parallella for audio multi threaded/core operation – platform

This is the small raspberry PI Computer, which is nerdy as hell, but a very nice chance to get even a synth to work with this project – didn’t know it was fast enough so – here’s a demo of it strange, that guy wrote on his Remote XL instead of using the display, but he’s more clever than I am, since he knows how to handle this: first session with the Raspberry Pi running Pure Data. I’m running Pd 0.44 (test version) with „-nogui -noadc -alsa“ flags + a…

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Synth-Project presents: The Little Shruthi-1 Keyboard – A closer look (not a musical demo)

Synth-Project did it again building a synth keyboard and knobs around the well known Shruti -1 vom Mutable Instruments – not that it is a functional more fun to play work, no it is just also looking nice – reminds a bit of a slightly flattened little phatty – so this is a bit more than a „controller“ – it’s a mod. -> Mutable Shruti , Shruti XL Synth the standard Shruti -1 looks like this and sounds like this:

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