Let’s take a glance at all the coolest, hippest and grooviest music technology, synths, software and modular from the last few weeks. Including a new synth from Roland, whole synths in a Eurorack module and the best delay pedal I’ve ever seen. Intro – 0:13 Transphobia – 1:54 Roland SH-4d – 3:42 Pittsburgh Modular Taiga […]
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Synth East coming to Norwich in a couple of weeks. Tickets still available for the evening gig featuring me and Steve, Finlay Shakespear and Nik Colk Void. Daytime is sold out, but please get in touch if you want to be on the waiting list for returns. It’s going to be bloody good fun. SynthEast.com
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Taiga is a 3-oscillator monophonic/paraphonic analogue synthesizer that blends East with West coast synthesis in a highly explorable adventure. Buy from: Thomann – https://thmn.to/thoprod/560017?offid=1&affid=1460 Perfect Circuit – https://tinyurl.com/perfectcircuit-pittsburghtaiga Sweetwater – https://imp.i114863.net/6b0mPQ https://pittsburghmodular.com/taiga Official Patch Guide now available – here.
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It’s a new year and another round-up of all the latest synth, modular and music tech news from December and January. It’s cold, and a bit quiet, but I found a few things to talk about, including my thoughts on Synth-Youtubing and how the relationship with manufacturers works for me. Index – 0:00 Intro – […]
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Instead of a regular Molten Music Monthly, I decided to celebrate the end of 2022 and all the awesome products that came our way by getting together with Steve Davis to chat about our favourite things. Here’s the video, and beneath it are links to all the products we mentioned. Links…. working on it
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Sorry, I didn’t get this up earlier, but here are the highlights from November, taking in such exciting things as the new Synclavier, Knobula Chord Pilot, Halo Cables, Pams Pro and the magnificent Molten Motion Meter. I’m not going to be able to do a full written version this month, but here are some useful […]
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These are the best audio interfaces for the Apple iPad. This is a companion page to my “Best iPad Audio Interfaces” article on CareersInMusic with quick links to where to buy them.
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For me, the beauty of the Yamaha CS-80 was never in the instrument itself; it was in what Vangelis did with it. There’s nothing about the bulk of this synth that particularly appeals to me. It’s unwieldy, ungainly, strange and somewhat ugly. Give me a cool Sequential or moody Moog anytime, but this? It’s some […]
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Burst modules tend to give you a bunch of triggers or gates in response to an event. It’s like a rattling, a ratcheting or a fast slap about the face. You could use them to add sudden explosions of activity or if you massage them correctly they can produce interesting and varying rhythms for running […]
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This is it, my first Eurorack module, conceived by my addled brain and brought to life by the wizards at Befaco. The Molten Motion Meter provides audio VU metering, CV visualisation, mixing, offsetting and attenuverting while looking fabulous. I always felt the one thing software had over hardware was its ability to animate knobs and […]
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