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The Doepfer Monsterbase synth rack is hot enough that I considered marking this one NSFW.
Lucky man Matthew Davidson just took delivery of this monster base, and has the rundown on it at his Stretta site:
I’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the monster base since it was announced at the Winter NAMM show as I’ve [...]

 

The Doepfer CTM64 is a universal contact-to-MIDI interface that can be used as the basis for custom MIDI controllers.
Here are a few examples of what people have built using the CTM64:

More examples of custom MIDI controllers, including custom DJ controllers for Richie Hawtin & Monolake, are available at the Doepfer site.

 

Mega.ModularPlanner.co.uk has a cool new online modular synthesizer planner for Eurorack-size modules. 
It’s a work in progress, but it has modules from the biggest manufacturers already. It’s just missing scanned images from several of the companies. 
Note that it does let you do some things that might not be possible with real modules (see the image above). 
I’d [...]

 

Trash Audio has posted another video from NAMM that looks at the Doepfer modular synthesizer:

 

At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, synth goddess and Analog Suicider Tara Busch caught up with Dieter Doepfer and talked to him about what was new with the Doepfer modular synth line.

 

Trash Audio interviewed Doepfer Synthesizer’s Dieter Doepfer at the 2008 NAMM Show, and talked to him about his background/life/history.

 

At the 2008 NAMM Show in Anaheim, Doepfer will be introducing its latest analog synth goodies. Here’s a preview of what they’ll be announcing.
A-100 CV/Gate Keyboard (A-100CGK)
A monophonic analog keyboard with these outputs: CV, gate, velocity, after touch. The first use of the keyboard is to control the A-100 modular but as the CV follows [...]

 

Doepfer has announced that its R2M Ribbon Controller is now available. R2M is a ribbon controller that generates control signals by moving the finger on the ribbon manual. The output signals are generated as Midi and CV/Gate control voltages simultaneously. Consequently R2M allows to control both Midi and CV/Gate based equipment (e.g. analog synthesizers or [...]

 

Doepfer announced today that they will be introducing over 15 new products at the Frankfurt Musikmesse, one of the most important European music technology shows. The products include a new ribbon controller, a keyboard controller for software organ emulators, and many new modules for the A-100 modular analog synthesizer.
Doepfer has released this preliminary information about [...]

 

Doepfer

10Mar04

Doepfer is a German company that manufactures electronic music instruments, including analog synthesizer modules.
Their line includes:

Analog Modular Systems
MIDI Controller
MIDI Hardware Sequencer
MIDI-to-CV/Gate/Sync Interfaces
MIDI Masterkeyboards
MIDI Special Equipment

Doepfer is known for making inexpensive versions of classic analog equipment. The Doepfer Analog Modular System has an extensive array of available modules, including vocoders, theremin, spring reverb, fixed filter [...]