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A car accident has taken the life of Daniel Hansson, one of the founders of Elektron, creator of the Machinedrum and Monomachine synthesizer. Hansson died August 19th.
In a statement at the site, the Elektron team says that “Daniel’s strict determination, innovation and unsurpassed eye for detail resulted in instruments that have already reached cult status [...]

emutronic’s Victorian Synth demonstrates some ways of generating sounds from crap you have around the house:

But can it play “Lucky Man”?
via Sonic State

Summer NAMM: Roland introduced a new desktop hardware synth today, the SonicCell. According to Roland, the SonicCell puts the power and legendary sound quality of a Roland hardware synthesizer on your desktop. According to us, it’s the most hideously ugly synth we’ve seen in a long time.
Here’s the details…..

Future Retro’s Jered Flickinger is celebrating 10 successful years in business with a gear porn retrospective of rare FR prototypes.

Here’s an image of the Abstrak sequencer, a prototype of a new type of analog sequencer built using discrete logic components. The rhythm switches could define if notes were off, on, or sustained, while the knobs [...]

The Technos Acxel Resynthesizer is an additive synth developed in Quebec, Canada during the late 1980s. Its architecture is based on sine-wave oscillators that are each assigned amplitude and pitch envelopes to form the component harmonics of a sound.
The major innovation of the Acxel was, according to Technos, resynthesis. The idea is to sample [...]

Adern has announced the release of FleXor 3, an add-on pack of modules designed to “take your Scope Modular system to the next level”. The thick sound of FleXor3 recreates the warmth of analog, as well as offering routes into uncharted digital territory.
150 new synthesis and processing components have been added since the original FleXor [...]

TerraTec Producer’s Expandable Controller Keyboard AREA 61 will be available in spring this year.
AREA 61 is an expandable keyboard system for studio and live musicians. It offers freely selectable, integrated sound generators (f.e. KOMPLEXER DSP soundboard) that may also serve as a central control unit for all software sequencers and virtual instruments in computer based [...]

John Bowen Synth Design has introduced the Solaris keyboard synthesizer.
Bowen is best known for his work on pioneering keyboard synthesizers at Sequential Circuits, but he’s also been very active creating software synths.
“While I certainly enjoyed many good years at Sequential Circuits, working as an independent plug-in developer for the Scope platform over the last 7 [...]

Native Instruments‘ Massive 1.1 is now available, featuring 140 new sounds, virtual-analog oscillator modes, an Acid Filter and a Hardclipper Effect, adding “even more beef to the already enormous sound spectrum of Massive”.
Registered Massive customers receive the update for free. For everyone else a new demo version for Mac and PC is available for download.
New [...]

Forget analog or digital - vanilla or chocolate?
via Alicia