Is it brooding, dark and mysterious, or is it a groovy dance party in a module? Neo Trinity is fun, fast, fabulous and fiddly. It can run your rack with modulation, envelopes, LFOs, triggers and notes and then drink you under the table.
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Bullfrog is a collaboration between Erica Synths and Richie Hawtins and is designed as an educational platform for teaching synthesis, sound and modular music making. It’s huge; it’s a mono synth but with a special slot of splendidness. It’s not just for kids though; there’s plenty for the beginner and the more experienced to enjoy.
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Mariana is a dual-oscillator, dual-layer software synthesizer that pulls in the Taurus, Minitaur, Model D and Sub Phatty for some seriously analogue monophonic bass synth action.
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It’s a stand-off with stands from Analog Cases and stands from KVGear. Which one will I take a stand on?
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Heck! I’ve never done such a long review. Clocking in at nearly 2 hours, this feels rather deep and intense, but how else do you review such a device?
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ZAPS is a digitally controlled analogue drum voice that’s too much fun to play with. Whether it’s cracking through sounds with every trigger, playing with the front panel or finding weird levels of melodic beauty, this module has loads of depth. Buy ZAPS from Perfect Circuit Plankton website. I did a couple of extra videos […]
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The Coral has 10 polyphonic sound engines packed inside along with a filter, envelopes and some reverb and chorus. It’s a polyphonic and multitimbral Plaits with sample playing set up as eight entire synthesizer voices.
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The Wibbler 2 is a fascinating LFO and also a source of fun drum synth and sampled sounds. The only problem is deciding what to use it for!
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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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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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