We have introduced collectively six new desktop instruments for shaping audio, from basic synthesizers to recent takes on the drum machine, ambient drone turbines and a granular synthesis powerhouse.
Labyrinth from Moog Music
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The Labyrinth is the newest machine from synthesizer legend Moog Music. Designed for ‘countless sonic exploration’, this semi-modular analogue synthesizer is all about discovering recent paths via a maze of choices, diversions and experimentation. It provides ‘an countless journey of sonic rabbit holes,’ because of a brand new strategy to circuit design from Moog machines of previous. ‘It’s like having a compositional companion that navigates via a labyrinth of sound, always reconfiguring and shocking you with new sonic landscapes,’ says Moog’s Rick Carl, System Architect and Lead {Hardware} Engineer on the challenge.
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Described as a ‘parallel generative analogue synthesizer’, the Labyrinth consists of twin generative sequencers and a lot of voices, permitting patterns to weave out and in of each other. Moog hopes it’ll operate each as a studio machine (with a rack-friendly format) but additionally a standalone efficiency gadget, enabling expert synthesists to twiddle away to their coronary heart’s content material to create interlocking and ever-evolving soundscapes.
Moog Labyrinth, $599, MoogMusic.com, @MoogSynthesizers
Cymaforma ALT
ALT synthesizer by Cymaforma
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ALT is an analogue soundscape synthesizer with a pin matrix management floor. The ALT’s 5 voices will be pitched and formed and manipulated with a filter, large delay module and a Battleship-style pin matrix that directs and hyperlinks the LFOs with the voices, together with a random step generator. With virtually infinite sonic selections at your fingertips, ALT additionally has gentle sensors and a built-in microphone so as to add additional limitless choices for making noises. Hand-made in Paris, Cymaforma’s ALT is a bespoke sound device that may be built-in into any style.
Cymaforma ALT, extra info at Cymaforma.com, @Cymaforma
Audio Tempera by BeetleCrab Audio
Tempera granular synthesizer by BeetleCrab Audio
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Extra adventures within the unpredictable world of granular synthesis will be had within the arms of Prague designers BeetleCrab Audio. Their new Tempera works by taking a pattern and breaking down into new sounds through results, resampling, and totally different playback choices. In consequence, intricate textures will be created.
Tempera granular synthesizer by BeetleCrab Audio
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The Tempera has an 8×8 grid of touch-sensitive pads for triggering and manipulating a chunk of sampled audio. Samples – or grains – will be blended and mixed in numerous combos, along with onboard results and enhancing.
BeetleCrab Audio Tempera, €670, PlayTempera.com, @BeetleCrab.audio
CRUM2 by Analog Sweden
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CRUM2 is an upcoming ‘generative percussive harmonic gadget’, developed by Analog Sweden alongside Albert Nyström and idiosyncratic digital instrument maker Love Hultén. With its distinctive retro aesthetic, it is a gadget that appears nearly as good because it sounds, reworking the normal drum machine right into a extremely styled efficiency instrument.
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The mixture of old-fashioned console design with six onboard sound engines make this a welcome device in any digital musician’s arsenal.
CRUM2, extra info at AnalogSweden.com, @AnalogSweden, @Nystrom.Music, @LoveHulten
Bullfrog Drums by Erica Synths
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One other beat machine, this time courtesy of Latvian instrument maker Erica Synths. Finest recognized for his or her learning-focused collaboration with the artist Plastikman (Richie Hawtin), Bullfrog Drums continues the academic strategy. Easy in kind because of a stripped again, naked minimal aesthetic, Bullfrog Drums is nonetheless meant to high school newcomers on the fundamentals of beat constructing and sampling.
Bullfrog Drums, extra info at EricaSynths.lv, @EricaSynths
LIVEN Ambient Ø by Sonicware
LIVEN Ambient Ø by Sonicware
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A compact desktop machine from Japanese maker Sonicware, the LIVEN Ambient Ø has been designed purely to create droning ambient soundscapes. By layering synthesized output with a set of ‘nature sounds’, all sequenced and output via a mighty reverb engine, the battery-powered gadget is reasonably priced, intuitive and able to creating large sounding ambient tracks that may be tweaked and in-built actual time. It’s also possible to add your personal samples into the combo.
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LIVEN Ambient Ø, €279, Sonicware, Sonicware.jp, @Sonicware_inc
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