Analogue Systems – Bob Williams leaves…

Bob Williams is the guy behind Analogue Systems (NOT to confuse with Analogue Solutions), known for their euro-modular but also some other things like Spawn. What happens next? Well, Alex4 which is Schneidersbüro (Berlin) will continue the work of producing and marketing / selling it. So the system will be available for the future. src: Top News: Analogue Systems wird deutsch – AMAZONA.de.

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Roland – System 1m Desktop/Rack (Messe Teaser II)

This teaser looks like there will be a System 1 Rack – called the System 1m coming – which is a very good idea since they keyboard wasn’t a pleasure but the Synth itself has a very high quality sound engine – so let’s hope for it to have more than 4 voices and possible more voices for the plugouts (Promars, SH2, SH101). Looks like real jacks for analog stuff on top, right? So this seems digital with analog connections plus display to choose your sounds and set things like…

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Korg MS20M – „Der Sinn der 14 Nupsis“ – Interne gewollte Hackbarkeit

Ergänzend zum aktuellen SynMag-Test hier die Platine des MS20M, auf der man erkennen kann, welche Punkte angreifbar und an Buchsen anzuschließen sind, die natürlich jene 14 Abdeckungen schon vorsehen. Das sind: HPF Ausgang LPF Ausgang (die beiden Filter jeweils als Rev 1 und Rev2 getrennt an verschiedenen Stellen – macht 4 Buchsen) VCO1 und 2 liegen ebenfalls als Ausgänge an. (2 weitere Buchsen) VCA Steuereingang (1 Buchse) (MOD in) dazu noch Jack in und Jack SW (Taster) für VCA (1 Buchse, ein Taster/Buchse) -> Dazu noch 3 Punkte auf der…

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Free Sounds for Download (Synths) by „program change“

– PROGRAM CHANGE did a bunch of Packages that are all free for download from a load of Synths but also things like Strings, Piano and Bass and stuff.. most of it can be seen by looking at the „packages“.. Oberheim Matrix, Roland Juno and JX, Korg DW… Freie Sounds aus Synths und ein bisschen mehr – kostet nichts – was es gibt sieht man auf einen Blick, daher sage ich sonst weiter nichts. Matrix 26 gigabyte classic analog Oberheim samples. JX 24 bit samples of Roland’s most advanced analog instrument…

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Crowminius: Small DIY Minimoog (with CS80 PWM)

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

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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