At the 2015 NAMM Show, Electro-Harmonix debuted the 22500 Dual Stereo Looper. The 22500 records high quality, non-compressed audio direct to a removable SDHC card (4 to 32 GB). Each card holds up to 100 individual loops. Includes an 8 GB card for up to 13 hours of total recording time.
Developer Mayank Sanganeria has released bent.fm – a full FM model of a circuit-bent synthesizer. bent.fm allows the user to tweak classic circuit bending modifications like fine and octave-decimated clock bends, and experiment with more esoteric bends. Sanganeria says that bent.fm is ‘for anyone interested in circuit bending, glitch sounds, industrial music, and post-procedural art.’
This video, via Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com, takes a look at the STG/Soundlabs Mankato filter for Eurorack modular synthesizers.
apeSoft has updated Stria, its interactive FM software synthesizer for iOS. Here’s what’s new:
This series of five videos features a lot of audio demos and jamming with the new Yamaha Reface line of keyboards. In each of the videos, Blake Angelos and Nate Tschetter work with a pair of the Reface keyboards, offering a good overview of the range of sound and playability of each keyboard.
This video, via SweetwaterSound, features an interview with electronic music instrument pioneer Roger Linn, who was appearing at GearFest 2015 for a panel discussion with Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim.
Developer Arthur Kerns has introduced midiLFOs – a MIDI controller app that sends modulation control data to other music apps and external synthesizers. It consists of four independent LFOs that are used to send 7 bit MIDI CC messages in repeating Low Frequency Oscillating patterns.
Moog Music today announced that the first of its new Model 15 modular synthesizers are now coming off of their production line:
Peter Kirn has announced the MeeBlip Anode Limited Edition synthesizer – a new version of the hybrid digital/analog bassline synth. The new version features version 2.0 firmware and defaults to wavetable oscillator mode.
Developer Matt Tytel has introduced Helm – a free, cross-platform, polyphonic synthesizer that runs on GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows as a standalone program and as a LV2/VST/AU/AAX plugin. It’s available now as beta release.
