Affinity Photo – Photoshop CS Killer without subscription BS

Ok, you did your covers with Photoshop, right? You were searching for something to avoid that totally unacceptable 50€ model per month model of their cloud bullshit and ran into Pixelmator or Acorn, right? But the Pro-side of life wasn’t there – something that could do the Adobe CS Photoshop jobs? well you can do for 40€ with Serif Affinity. Looks like I’ve found it – I really was hoping for things like this to happen! Link to them: Affinity Photo – Professional image editing software for Mac. via Apples Shop…

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BME 700 Synth with Switch controlled additional Resonator/Filter

the german very rare Baumann BME 700 has a special Resonant Filter that is digitally set up via setting „bits“ – this one seems a bit broken or damaged since the keyboard doesn’t seem to work but when those hands reaching out for the resonator – just have a listen! BME-700 // FATTEST SYNTH ON EARTH & the worst keyboard ever!!Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen more on the BME 700 subtractive,analog synth..

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„Denki-Soba“ Analogue Synth Restaurant – Osaka, Japan

I don’t think there are and can be many of those – but in Japan someone had the idea to do a synth restaurant. "Denki-Soba" Analogue Synth Restaurant from Osaka, JapanDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen found: ARP Odyssey, 2600, SH101, TR808, Mono/Poly, Gakken SX150, Hell Synth 2600 Kostbarkeiten @Forum • „Denki-Soba“ Analogue Synth Restaurant from Osaka, Japan. update: Implant 4 – a synth shop seems nearby .. thx Ju-X for posting this ;)

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Synth 

Modor – NF1 – digital hardware synth (coming)

after a long rollout of almost analog or hybrid synths – there is also digital ones still on the move – upcoming DSP synth NF1 from Belgium – motherland of EBM and the µVentury or EEF. Modor NF-1 – Technical OverviewDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen looks like it has 4x ADSR with addition of 3 more parameters with initial Level, Decay1 Level and Time 12 dB/Oct filter(s) formant filter standard and „noisy“ waveforms special FX with very special parameters (they say) and delay they say: With new noisy oscillator models, digital unusual…

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App 

Zed Physical Modeling with mic input iOS Synth

remember Patch Morpher? The interpolation tool for sound creation on hardware synths – here’s the first synth of JazzMan – which can listen to the microphone re-model it and use this as a synth waveform but can also just synthesize sounds from oscillators via filter and stuff – the GUI is nice – you can just move the whole user interface by swiping it – so you can see the structure, the physical model engine and resonantors, the „mallet“ section, 2 OSCs, filter like this: added is sort of Clavia…

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Squarp Pyramid – Standalone Polyphonic Sequencer

this is a hardware sequencer that is basically sending things to 2x CV and Gate 2x MIDI plus USB MIDI and it saves on SD cards polyphonic chords 16 tracks 64 bars max! – velocity not yet totally clear.. it is capable of euclidean polyrhythmic sequencing (want to know what that is?) as well as step & realtime recording event data http://youtu.be/X6ld4UaHByI here’s some aspects of the sequencer: arper / harmonizer – how to play in realtime http://youtu.be/OIRO1TUWGnU it has some sort of chromatic sequencing concept that can be scrolled…

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Synth 

wARP – the next generation after Korg – ARP 2600 style synth

Roberto Raineri-Seith just posted this „wARP“ synth – are we getting a new  2600 from a non Korg organisation soon (from switzerland)? it has 4 waveforms on VCO1 and 3 unlike the original which is great for ringmod and FM. so it is not just „a clone“ – the AR / ADSR envelopes are kept. 3243,57€ (3400 SFr) which is a very fair price – UPDATE but atm the euro is weak so it’s a bit more than posted earlier. especially because switzerland isn’t a cheap place to live. alternate ideas is…

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