u-he @ Musikmesse 2013 – Modular Synth based on DIVA?

looks like it is coming at the Messe in Frankfurt (April 10 – 13) this isn’t hardware – but they will have something for us.. it’s Bazille, the modular synth.. imagine DIVA going modular but more like a nice compact synth like the ARP2600 or Macbeth M5 or Cwejman S1 kind of modular in software: – we’ll showcase Bazille 1.0 (to be released in June/July) – we’ll showcase Satin (tape machine emulation, due in May) – we might showcase Presswerk, a massive compressor (ui pending) – we’ll have a Digital oscillator module for…

Hartmann Neuron Rack – Design

Axel Hartmann just posted a rendering of the Neuron Synth as a rack – don’t know if that means there could be another attempt or if it’s another proto idea of those days it was released. -> Hartmann Neuron neuronal,digital – this is a past proto type. so it may not show up soon. but could have been cool, huh? Source: Facebook. Neu oder Alt? Das Rack-Design von Axel Hartmann – kommt oder war schon?

NAMM 2013 II – Kurzweil & stuff

NAMM 2013 Post 2 – just another special – there will be another Kurzweil PC3 called the PC3K8 (not new except the case) and as you’ve seen the Korg Synths King Korg and MS20 Mini will be real and coming.. –> King Korg Digital Synthesizer in the Database –> MS20Mini Analog Synthesizer in the Synth Database more see other NAMM News.. find here some printed something about the new korgs ;) no real further details. NAMM news posts: 4 just check them all and everything from the last couple of days, worth a lot – especially…

Koma RH301 Clock Utility/Sync Tool – the rhythm workstation MIDI / DIN Sync and LFO

the new RH301 is made for syncing everything from the MIDI, digital and analog world, including an internal LFO, dividing the clock and a Roland DIN Sync to and from MIDI – so this is a nice sync box to hook up (analog) synths, modular stuff, MIDI gear and control it with the dbeam-style proximity controller and set the clock and division incl all there is as control voltages..   description (without connecting things) the official info is this: KOMA Elektronik announces the RH-301 Rhythm and Utility Pedal! New pedal…

Bitwig Studio TR-sequencing – controlled by NI Maschine (as a controller!) / Bitwig Release 26.3.2014

Bitwig Studio is in here, it may look like a normal Maschine, but is is really just Bitwig in use here, looks very interesting to us grooveboxers, right? So there’s something in the making that may be able to be controlled by „any“ controller.. something I put on my wishlist years ago.. -> UPDATE:  26.3.2014 is the time when Bigwig will be released and the price be announced. also will be shown at NAMM 2014 – and the Musikmesse is also right there (12-15.3.)  UPDATE 2: CDM says it’ll be 299€…

Synth 

King Korg VA with analog filter emulations and tube – rumours and wishes / MS20 re-release (confirmed)

something new approaching, also synthtopia asks for the MS20 to come back in form of a real synth.. if so, I ‚d still answer the same when I saw that controller first- make this thing sound just as it is, add octave shift keys and program change and give it 4-8 voices polyphony and a nice double full blown envelope and FM for those OSCs and it could be something very very cool…The Korg MINI MS-20 Monophonic Synthesizer (NAMM Rumor) – it’s now confirmed, there IS a $599 MS20 analog…

Cylonix Cyclebox Oscillator Module

CYLONIX CYCLEBOX is a digital Oscillator but is is able to generate a large (huuuge!!) frequency range which sounds like it might be good at FM and everything that is modulated at higher speed (audio, possibly beyond?) , it also has Sync to offer and a lot of waveforms compared to „standard“ analog oscillators. these shapes look interesting: Random pulses, truncated sawtooth, bipolar pulse, mirrored bipolar pulse, resonant sweep, mirrored resonant sweep, vowels, mirrored vowels there are nonlinear waveforms (however – don’t know how they are made /of ..) that „Mega“…

Euclidean Sequencers – no more square dancing

time to check out some Euclid-based (euclidean) sequencers in hardware.. since there is the new 5U moog sized one by COtK more on euclid(ean) sequencers… • and there is more about them Circles and Euclidean Rhythms: Off the Grid, a Few Music Makers That Go Round and Round • things to check out – what is …  _ Squaredance ist out, man springt heute im Dreieck!! ;)