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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My initial impression of the Malevolent was a bit of a car crash. I couldn’t get any sound out, couldn’t find what it was I needed to do. This was all during a live stream, so there was all sorts of pressure to get it playing, and I couldn’t seem to see the synth through […]
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It’s October, the nights are drawing in, and it’s feeling suspiciously warm. But maybe that’s the fever from my unbreakable cold. However, we have another month of marvellous music technology to get through with a little less modular and a little more tech. Unlike previous written Monthly’s where I reworked a transcription of the video, […]
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent all week trying not to put the heating on. But then I don’t need to when I have such lovely glowy modular things to keep me warm. But anyway, what do we have coming up this month? For the video version, please head over to my YouTube channel. […]
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Today we’re looking at the Moog Mavis. You may have noticed when they released there was a tsunami of gooey and lovely videos from gooey and lovely YouTubers all about the gooey and loveliness of the Moog Mavis. It’s quite an extraordinary little synth, almost half the price of the Mother-32 and yet contains all […]
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It’s the summer, right, so nothing really happens. Very little actually occurs in the world of technology synthesizes and other bits and pieces, and probably more the better because we’re outside getting far too hot or getting burnt or sitting on the beach and do we really want to talk about Gear? Well, this Is […]
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Inspired by Buchla magic the West Pest embraces wave folding and dynamics to offer a left-field synthesizer experience. The West Pest is of course Cre8audio’s counterpart to the East Beast, a synthesizer I’ve already reviewed which is butchery smooth with that fantastic filter. So what is it that the West Pest offers that the East […]
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Today I’m reviewing the Nymphes six-voice analogue polyphonic synthesizer from Dreadbox. The review is an edited transcript from my video review (below) for people who prefer to read. What you immediately notice is that it’s very small, adorably small. It’s made completely of metal, it feels as rigid as you could possibly imagine and it’s […]
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