Synth 

Yamaha Performance AN10, DX10 & VL10 Synthesizers (yet fictional renderings)

Performance AN, DX and VL synthesizers is a rendered piece of synths that no yet exist to tell us – well – why shouldn’t we ask for digital synths with knobs? based on the AN/DX and even VL synth „plugins“ and groove boxes that may have more steps today (128 or so) etc.. UPDATE: Reface does DX – so it does FM and also the CS series. not bad, ok these renderings seem not to come with a sequencer built in but are up-to-date 3 Octave Stage-Synths. I could imagine these…

Synth 

British Polysynth – Modal 002 – coming 3.8k€-High-End-Synthesiser

      Modal 002 (built 2014) – Hybrid Synthesizer + modulation step sequencer here’s the specs of Modal Electronics 002 which was previously called the Modulus 002 hybrid synth (digital OSCs, analog path after the OSCs) UPDATE: 12 voice – 2 OSCs with 50 digital Waves and Standards – expect the digital being something between PPG-style Wavaetables or something – nobody knows yet- bother OSC got SUBOSCs as well. filters are 1-4pole filters of any type that you might expect 2 LFOs: one per voice, one global. 2 Envelopes it has…

ELSA Sampler (iOS APP) simple loopable with fast access dividers

simple sampler for the iPad – does loops (forward and alternating) – reverse must be done via reversing the sample in the editor, it has simple loudness ADSR envelope and one 2D Pad for FX (reverb included) and filters as fx as well. well – add those with ADSR.. those dots look like some action can be done 3 start/stop modes (one for all, one per note, one per octave) <– and this one. 1,79€ won’t hurt much – these number buttons are dividers for the sample length. still searching…

what is coming up next – NDVR & Stuff

Mosaik is a granular beat matching tool for 16×32 slots with live input with beat & transient detection. it’s so to say some kind of DJing approach but also the engine we know from Ableton Live and Bitwig which is coming to town at the same time – End of March. # this is a player not a DAW but maybe they focus on audio quality since the newer IOS devices are more and more powerful and even got 64bit. Musikmesse is near, so this is not the only one, the…

B-Step – VST Step Sequencer – OS X & Windows & Linux

B-Step is a VST Step Sequencer für Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. it has 4 tracks that can be assigned to 4 pitches with 4 lines of step triggers each position can be set to another chord note repeat per step octave range and dynamics  – which can be adjusted at once via one knob this is more like a performance sequencer than just a sequence helper. can only be ordered as VST, not as AU.  for 19,99€   Kleiner einfach wirkender 16-Sequencer mit speziellen Funktionen, die ihn komplexere…

Classic Synth Specials 

Korg makes the ARP Odyssey

Korg seems to have officially licensed / teamed with ARP. Ok, that company was sold – so don’t know what the situation is and was – but now – they have an Odyssey for us. This year. Since the MS20 Mini is selling well, they look like making the classic synths for us, now? Hopefully shrunken as the Mini and with dynamics? ;) (no irony – I love it). Ok, this sounds a lot like fools day – but this is from the Korg Website! Those keys look a lot…

SYSTEM-1: 4 voice synthesizer – more synths can be uploaded and hosted

the did a big campain – did NOT show it on NAMM but will show it on the Musikmesse Frankfurt. Today was the big disguising moment of those 3 new retro-engines based on DSPs which is sort of modeling „something“ but not exactly emulating something – that’s why it’s sort of a new sound and maybe not a Gaia or post-JP8000 sounding synth. it’s a new engine – and we should not think much about what the new „Modeling“ thing is all about but just listen to it … in…

NAMM 2014 III – Controllers, Izotope Break Tweaker Groovebox Software & Waldorf 2Pole

ok, NAMM is running and it seems most news is/has been said: there is one more thing.. 1) Waldorf shows a Rocket-Sized Box – 2Pole – it’s a filter box – it looks like this: so it has distortion stereo input and an AD envelope with hold and an LFO for control of the filter. NAMM 2014: Waldorf 2-Pole Analog FilterDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen image: debug: 2) Break Maker is the name of a beat creation software from iZotope it’s not a controller it’s a pure software groovebox tool.…