We’re wrapping up our look back at Best of 2015 poll results with a look at the best new synth modules of 2015. For the modular synth category, we let readers nominate the best new synths modules of the year and then vote on them. It’s clear that readers were impressed with the Mutable Instruments line, voting the… Read More The 10 Best New Synth Modules Of 2015
Softmachines let us know that their Synth Nazis Must Die shirts are back, after 3 years of unavailability. The shirt is inspired by the Troma Entertainment film, Surf Nazis Must Die. The film tells the story of a mother’s quest, in a post-apocalyptic future, to hunt down and kill the neo-Nazi surf punks that killed her son.… Read More ‘Synth Nazis Must Die’ Shirts Return
Wave Alchemy have released their latest drum sample library for electronic music production, Drum Tools 02. Two years in the making, Drum Tools 02 boasts over 3,500 electronic drum samples and percussive hits, “crafted by hand” using an array of drum machines, analogue synths, foley recordings and acoustic sound sources. The samples were then processed… Read More Wave Alchemy Drum Tools 02 Now Available
UK-based Mogees shared a new preview video for their Mogees Vibration Sensor kit, which lets you use just about anything as a musical instrument. Mogees works by combining a vibration sensor with music software that translates the vibrations of objects into expressive synthesized sound. It also can be used to generate MIDI, letting you turn just about anything… Read More Mogees Vibration Sensor Lets You Use Anything As A Musical Instrument
This pair of videos, via Perfect Circuit Audio, demonstrates the factory patches of the new Modal Electronics Modulus 002. Modal describes the Modulus 002 as ‘the first analogue/digital hybrid polysynth to have been designed, developed, and manufactured in the UK for four decades’.
This video, via GEOSynths, explores using the Strymon DIG Dual Digital Delay with synthesizers.
PSP Audioware has introduced PSP 2445 – a reverb processor plug-in (VST, AAX and RTAS for Windows; AudioUnit, VST, AAX and RTAS for Mac OSX) that is inspired by two legendary early digital age reverberators: the EMT 244 and the EMT 245. Here’s what they have to say about it:
Best of 2015: Other years have seen the introduction of great synthesizers of all types. But 2015 brought a treasure trove of new hardware sequencers, the likes that we have never seen. We asked Synthtopia readers to vote on The Best New Hardware Sequencers Of 2015, and you picked the Arturia Beatstep Pro as the best new… Read More The Best New Hardware Sequencers Of 2015
The Ciat-Lonbarde Tocante Karper is a unique instrument, created by Peter Blasser, that uses 24 pic chips in parallel to synthesize Karplus-Strong string emulations, in the Tocante scale. Here’s a video demo, via Richard Brewster:
The Korg Volca Keys synthesizer isn’t the most powerful synth, by far. But the video, below, shows why the Volca Keys synth has found so many fans – it’s got it where it counts:
