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AE Modular’s SAWVOX & FMOS This is an introduction to the new digital modules from tangible waves, the SAWVOX and FMOS. Both are purely digital oscillators based on the same lofi 8 bit chip from Jan Ostman. They sound completely different from each other, but both are incredibly useful as they offer a new sound…
IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitors Professional Review In this video, we’ll take a look at a set of mobile multimedia monitors great for travel from IK Multimedia, the iLoud Micro. iLoud Micro is a pair of tiny studio speakers and is the smaller brother of the iLoud MTM, hence the name Micro. Coming with the…
v3.0 STRUCTURE firmware Erogenous Tones eurorack module STRUCTURE is a visual generator module that is based internally on an OpenGL GLSL node based platform. It uses the concept of node structures to push visuals through the system. It is recommended you backup your front SDCard before installing and running 3.0 in case a problem occurs…
AE Modular’s WAVETABLES The WAVETABLES module is a digital oscillator that is based on wavetables, a technique that becomes popular first with the famous PPG synthesizer. Here, a huge number of digital waveforms can be “scanned”, resulting in a morphing between a variety of interesting spectral structures. WAVETABLES Features 7 different wavetables Crossfading between individual…
AE Modular – Removing and Installing Modules In this video I’m demonstrating how to remove and install individual modules in the AE Modular rack. It’s 36 degrees Celsius, all around us is smoke and ash from bush fires that are far enough to not be dangerous (yet) but near enough to making me nervous. In…
AE Modular – Using the 3VCSWITCH In this video I’m explaining how the AE Modular 3VCSWITCH works and how to use it in a patch. This is an odd and interesting module and applications aren’t easily apparent, so I hope you get some ideas from this.
MPK mini mk3 Keyboard MIDI Controller Akai Professional released a new version of the best-selling MIDI controller, MPK mini mk3! MPC-inspired production essentials, a Gen 2 enhanced dynamic keybed, and tight integration with any music production app makes MPK mini mk3 the ultimate go-anywhere beat making tool. MPK mini mk3 Highlights 25 Mini Keys, Featuring…
AE Modular – Advanced Topograf Modes In this video I explain the advanced configuration modes fore the TOPOGRAF drum sequencer module from @tangiblewaves. Please watch my first introductory video about the basic uses.
AE Modular – Topograf Basics This is a basic introduction the the new drum sequencer module from @tangiblewaves, the TOPOGRAF. This video shows the basic uses and explains the inputs, outputs and controls.
AE Modular – The NYLE Filter This video is all about the wonderful and hard to master NYLE filter of the AE Modular system from tangible waves. I’m explaining how to use it in its most basic ways and then show a few more esoteric uses with a short performance to round things off.
Sony Alpha 7S III Sony Electronics Inc. announced the long-awaited addition to its acclaimed Alpha 7S full-frame mirrorless camera series — the Alpha 7S III (model ILCE-7SM3). I personally did use the 7S and 7S II and those are perfect film cameras. Newly developed BIONZ XR™ image processing engine with eight times more processing poweriii and a brand…
Kyser Capo Review + Creative Uses of Capos So why would you want a capo, if you have never heard of them? Well, a capo allows you to “retune” your guitar on the fly, which makes it a great tool for a live performer. And if you drop tune and use a capo it gives…
Limited Sound Explorers Collection Pack Arturia launch a limited edition Sound Explorers box set. French music hardware and software developers release an exclusive in-store Sound Explorers box set. This collector’s item celebrates 20 years of innovative sound design and product innovation. 2020 marks Arturia’s 20 year anniversary Twenty years of crafting inspiring instruments. Twenty years…
AudioBox USB 96 Audio Interface 25th Anniversary Edition As part of celebrating 25 years of designing and manufacturing innovative, high-quality recording and live sound products, PreSonus® has released a special 25th Anniversary Edition of its best-selling AudioBox USB® 96 audio interface. The new version of this already classic 2-in, 2-out audio interface records at up…
Planar new Reference-Grade Headphones Avantone Pro is proud to announce the availability of Planar (red Model here) — absolutely following up its acclaimed MP-1 Mixphones multi-mode headphones. With unique Vari-Voice technology to allow users to move between a normal neutrally-voiced stereo field, monaural, and a specially contoured ‘mix’ mode. This time taking open-back reference-grade headphones…
Compact audio interface with advanced guitar tone shaping K Multimedia’s AXE I/O SOLO is the latest addition to its range of AXE I/O® high-end guitar interfaces with advanced tone-shaping features. It maintains the award-winning, best-in-class tone from the original while offering a more budget-friendly, mobile format. 2-in / 3-out USB audio interface ACTIVE/PASSIVE pick-up selector PURE and JFET input stages Z-Tone® impedance-adapting…
Maneco Labs GRONE DRONE SYNTH GRONE DRONE SYNTH developed by Maneco Labs is now shipping. This module for eurorack includes a drone oscillator (VCO), Noise generator, MS20 resonant low pass filter, multi waveform LFO and an integrated Clouds clone. Eurorack module format Drone voice oscillator MS20 Filter Multi waveform LFO Noise generator Clouds integrated Dark…
Heritage Audio’s HA-81A Two Classic Console´s Circuits European pro audio manufacturer Heritage Audio is proud to announce the availability of the HA-81A — a British-spec hybrid channel strip representing the latest addition to its ELITE SERIES range of zero-compromise, high- quality yet affordable alternatives to entry-level brands as an all-new mix of two classic consoles,…
Compact monitor iLoud® MTM offers high-end design and features for project and home studios IK Multimedia started to offer a white finish option for iLoud® MTM reference monitor. To sever their customers better who are looking for white stylish equipment IK Multimedia has added a white color choice for its iLoud® MTM, a dense reference monitor meant…
Rode VideoMic Go Video Review The Rode VideoMic Go is a compact and lightweight on-camera microphone is the ideal solution for anyone looking for clear, crisp, directional audio with incredible ease of use. Just plug it into your camera and GO! No batteries needed. The Rode VideoMic GO is built with an integrated Rycote Lyre…
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe George Benson Signature Model Review & Demo Thanks for watching our Fender GB George Benson Hot Rod Deluxe review. Every guitar player needs a great amp. Fender, with the help of George Benson, reworked their original Hot Rod amp that everyone knows and loves, and made it even better. This amp…
Pre-Order Landscape’s O/O Touch Patching for Banana Modular Systems Landscape just opened up the pre-order for O/O; banana modular system touch patching kits. These DIY kits allow you to make touchable shorting bars and touchpoints similar to AllFlesh. (AllFlesh is a patching system for modular systems. It’s a new way to interact, perform and control,…
Korg Minilogue – In-Depth Video Review The KORG Minilogue is a 4 Voice, Polyphonic Synthesizer created by Engineer Tatsuya Takahashi over at KORG in Tokyo, Japan. It comes in at around the 400~450 dollar mark in the US and can most certainly be bought 2nd hand online for an even lower price. The features of…
Handmade In Germany With Careful Care To Detail German studio specialist Neumann.Berlin introduces the V 402, a state-of-the-art microphone preamplifier with integrated headphone monitoring. The V 402 is Neumann’s first-ever stand-alone microphone preamp – although the company has created several generations of top-quality preamp modules for its mixing consoles, such as the now legendary V…
The AKG P120 is a professional studio microphone that has been designed for use in a wide range of recording applications. It features a large-diaphragm, gold-sputtered capsule that delivers a natural sound with wide frequency response. The mic also has a built-in attenuator and low-cut filter to help reduce unwanted noise and protect against overloads.…
IK Multimedia adds iRig® Keys 2 Mini to its mobile MIDI keyboard controller series IK Multimedia has expanded the iRig® Keys 2 series of mobile MIDI keyboard controllers with the addition of the compact iRig Keys 2 Mini. It features 25 mini keys for backpack portability or use in a small studio workplace, and is designed to…
10 Best Midi Controller Keyboards This midi keyboards review is sorted by price, from the cheapest to the most expensive, ranging from $100 up to over a $1000, including brands such as AKAI, Native Instruments, Novation, M-Audio and many more. Anything from best studio midi keyboard to professional midi keyboard for people who want durability…
Novation’s Flagship Synthesizer Video Overview Chris Calcutt is running you through the Novation Summit. Summit’s digital New Oxford Oscillators offer subtractive, FM and wavetable synthesis, and feed into genuine analogue dual filters, distortion and VCAs. The multitimbral engine enables merging and combining of two complete and independent patches, while up to 16 simultaneous voices deliver enough…
Comb is an IIR peaking comb filter with control over cutoff frequency, resonance that can be driven into self oscillation, and a dampening filter in the feedback path. Comp is a high fidelity compressor featuring numerous controls and a sidechain input. Dial in the perfect compression setting with separate threshold and ratio knobs. Define a…
IK Multimedia Z-TONE® Buffer Boost and Z-TONE DI IK Multimedia brings Z-TONE® advanced tone-shaping derived from its AXE I/O® hi-end guitar interface to everyone with Z-TONE Buffer Boost pedal and Z-TONE DI active direct box. Now available, both offer a unique active/passive pickup selector switch to ensure the ideal gain staging for any instrument; switchable…
Synthstrom’s Deluge 3.1.1 Update We’ve released an important bugfix update for our recent 3.1 firmware update. Fixes in 3.1.1 Include Fixed potential error or crash when beginning playback from the “current screen” (by pressing <> + play) Fixed – a MIDI note-off would be sent even for a note which did not sound due to probability…
Moog One Firmware 1.4 Adds Oscillator Compensation Calibration & New Sequencer Command Moog One is the ultimate Moog synthesizer – a tri-timbral, polyphonic, analog dream-synth designed to inspire imagination, stimulate creativity, and unlock portals to vast new realms of sonic potential. The first polyphonic analog synthesizer sold under the Moog brand in more than three…
Quantum Synthesizer keyboard to widespread critical acclaim in 2018, Waldorf Music introduces its Iridium Synthesizer ‘sibling’. The Iridium Synth shares futuristic functionality and advanced tonality and applying those traits with welcomed added extras to a compact desktop form factor living up to the high-quality synthesizer developer’s demanding design standards. Following in the Quantum Synthesizer’s trailblazing…
ARTURIA RELEASES KEYSTEP PRO 1.2.6 FIRMWARE UPDATE It’s Arturia’s job to make sure that the products they bring users to perform at their best capacity, so users can enjoy the smoothest workflow. That’s why Arturia constantly works on firmware updates for their products: exciting improvements such as new features, improvements, and bug fixes. The teams…
SOMA Contest, a chance to win a PULSAR-23 You can join the contest here. If you have no FB account you can upload your song on Youtube or any common media space and send a link to somasynthseu@gmail.com Duration:The competition started on June 5 and ends at midnight CET on the 28th of June 2020. Results will be…
Korg Volca Drum Editor by Tobias Hunke Created by the leading man in the world of E-Drumming and Ableton Live the Korg Volca Drum Editor from Tobias Hunke. The Volca Drum Editor is a Max for Live device which lets you edit, control, save and recall every parameter from the Korg Volca Drum digital percussion…
Bit Crusher Pedal with a Super Arcade Smash Button The 8BitM8 is a hardware bit crusher pedal with a super arcade smash button. It is inspired by the tonal qualities of vintage samplers and lo-fi effects. Hardware bit crushers are hard to come by and are often simply ‘sample rate reducers’ without any effect on…
50 Cosmic Effects Presets for Eventide Space Pedal & Eventide H9 Max Harmonizer lfo store released 50 Cosmic Effects Presets that take you from Saturn Rings to Venus Shine, from Stratosphere to Deepest Parts of Galaxies, from Russian Astronauts as Leonov & Gagarin to Nasa & SETI. The Soundset is ready for your Eventide Space Pedal…
ELMYRA a Sonic Exploration Synthesizer Elmyra is a platform for sonic exploration inspired by the widely beloved Lyra-8. Elmyra is based on the Adafruit ItsyBitsy M0 Express microcontroller. Its 10-bit audio resolution already gives it a wonderfully gritty sound, and this circuit adds some nasty analog distortion to it. The synth runs on USB power and…
Yamaha DX7 Cartridge AI Generator The Yamaha DX7 is a classic synthesizer often cited as the sound of the ’80s, thisdx7cartdoesnotexist.com uses a specially trained AI to create completely novel preset cartridges. The Yamaha DX7 has a total of 155 parameters, the AI uses a machine learning model known as a VAE that reduces these…
Error Instruments a hardware boutique manufacture releases a new eurorack module Sputnik Radio. The module is available in white or black. Sputnik Radio is a Voice sound source for experimental purposes who is based and inspired by radio wave you can use it as a drum or oscillator. There is also a really low sub…
Steda Electronics is getting closer to the release of its version of a TR-909 Drum Machine. The team did release 909 mainboard final version which hints that they are getting ready for the next steps towards a release. Personally I found it an excellent trend that many hardware companies are taking the risk and start…
Deluge 3.1 Firmware Released by Synthstrom Audible Synthstrom Audible released Deluge Firmware V3.1.0, containing a number of new features and improvements. Deluge 3.1 Firmware New Features Important: Songs saved with V3.1 will not be readable by older firmware versions. Please back up your songs and/or save them as new files. Download 3.1 Firmware here. Default…
Avantone Kick Sub-Frequency Kick Drum Microphone Avantone Pro brings back bygone classic as aptly-named sub-frequency kick drum microphone. It is an aptly-named sub-frequency kick drum microphone that effectively brings back to life a well-known extinct example by utilizing the affordable high-quality audio products producer’s own reproduction ‘white cone’ low-frequency driver to capture lower frequencies than…
Arturia KeyStep Pro Review – MIDI & CV Command Center Legacy (KeyStep & BeatStep Pro) For years the KeyStep (midi controller keyboard) was one of the most visible midi controllers in released youtube videos. In various videos, we watched it just sits on the table when a product is shown. KeyStep used in combination with the BeatStep…
POLAMIX Module a 3-Channel Attenuverter/Mixer for AE Modular Tangible waves launched a new CV Utility Module. The POLAMIX is similar to the 2CVTOOL in that you can offset and -/+ attenuate CV signals, but it also acts as a 3 channel mixer. Try to use this with 3 LFOs for modulation mayhem! The three inputs…
Modules for AE System Risen to 52 Distinct affordable Modules With today’s release of the newest AE Modular models the number of available modules for the AE system has now grown to 52. 2CVTOOLThe 2CVTOOL offers two units for offset and -/+ attenuation for CV signals, also known as “attenuverter”. This can be helpful for…
2CVTOOL Module for AE Modular Tangible waves launched a new CV Utility Module. The AE Modular module 2CVTOOL offers two units for offset and -/+ attenuation for CV signals, also known as “attenuverter”. 2CVTOOL is extremely useful for shaping and tuning all kinds of modulation signals. The inputs goes to the level knob, where the…
Polyend launches Limited Edition Black Medusa Polyend launches Limited Edition Black Medusa a hybrid synth with minimalistic front panel facelift and major firmware update. The Medusa Hybrid Synthesizer is a fruit of a collaboration between Dreadbox and Polyend companies. It has emerged from both teams unusual approach to integrating analog and digital domains into a…
Signal Sounds Roundup – Mid May 2020 We’re back again, two weeks, regular as clockwork for a change. This time around we’re got some new desktop synths and sequencers to go along with the usual hp munching modules which is a nice change. Couple of HEAVY HITTERS from the big names in synths, Moog and…
IK Multimedia Announces Safe Spacer™ a Wearable Social Distance Watch/Device IK’s upcoming promises an easy-to-use way through a wearable device that offers distance alarm monitoring for workplaces and public spaces. Safe Spacer™ is an innovative, lightweight wearable device that helps workers and visitors maintain safe social distancing, enabling MI and other industries to safely re-open…
MatrixBrute Update – Enhanced MIDI and DAW support Years after MatrixBrute was released, MatrixBrute still stands strong as one of the greatest synths ever made, and has been upgraded with a comprehensive firmware update. When updating to version 2.0, your MatrixBrute presets will be automatically converted to the 2.0 format. Arturia advises you to backup…
Akai Launches MPC Live II Meet Akai’s MPC Live II, the complete MPC experience in its most portable configuration yet. Everything you need to produce music, everywhere. MPC Live II is a comprehensive MPC experience without missing a step. A rechargeable lithium-ion battery means you can work anywhere for hours. Full-size MPC pads give you…
IK Multimedia’s ARC System 3 bundle with MEMS Mic for 3D Acoustic Calibration IK Multimedia’s ARC System 3 is the third generation of its innovative acoustic improvement system that allows producers and engineers to mix better, faster, and more assuredly. ARC System 3 enhances the audio monitoring accuracy of studios by correcting poor room acoustics, warranting mixes…
Moog Releases Subharmonicon Semi-Modular Synthesizer The Subharmonicon is a unique semi-modular analog synthesizer that allows for the creation of harmonic structures never before heard. It employs two independent oscillators, each with its own sub-oscillator, to create unprecedented levels of sonic complexity. The oscillators can be tuned in intervals or locked to each other to create…
Win an MPC2000xl Samples From Mars is running a competition where you can win an MPC2000xl. Produce an original composition using only the MPC2000 Snacks From Mars for your drum sounds. and enter for a chance to win an MPC2000XL and free samples for life. PRIZES: Prizes WINNER gets an MPC2000XL, free sample for life,…
Review of Launchpad X and Launchpad Mini mk3 Over the last year or two years, I started to perform more and more with Ableton Live. To be honest, in the beginning, it was a struggle to learn Ableton Live mainly as I was used to DAWs like Studio One, Logic, and Cubase. The concept of…
Signal Sounds Roundup May 2020 Time is an illusion as Einstein once said. Or was it Paul Daniels? We can’t quite remember. Anyway, that’s patently not true as Signal Sounds turns to the grand old age of 1 today meaning that 365 days have passed since we pressed the big red “EJECT” button from our…
AE Modular goes DIY for Superbooth@home 2020 AE Modular is Introducing the BRAEDBOARD Module and DIY Kit BRAEDBOARD The BRAEDBOARD (no typo!) contains a breadboard area for solderless electronics prototyping so you can experiment with any kind of analog or digital electronics and make your first steps into electronics, starting with simple circuits for beginners…
Mother-32 Firmware v2.0 a Major Updates for Moog Mother-32 Moog released Mother-32 Firmware v2.0! This major instrument update provides access to a host of dynamic new features, including multiple sequencer directions, improved and expanded clocking options, CV-addressed sequencer control, selectable swing intervals, the ability to ignore start/stop messages, and more. If you are new to this…
