Soundmachines designer Davide Mancini let us know the details on his new portable modular analog synthesizer design, the NS1nanaosynth. Mancini describes the NS1nanosynth as ‘A powerful, deep and hacker-friendly blend of a real analog modular synthesizer and an Arduino platform’. Here’s a diagram of the NS1nanosynth’s architecture:
ViaDSP has announced the release of Smart Chorus, a chorus Audio Unit and VST plug-in with a selectable envelope follower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcnsbSCi19k Audio Damage has introduced the ADM11 Dimensions stereo chorus module for Eurorack modular synthesizers.
Audiowerkstatt has introduced the din-restarter, a utitility module designed to let you to stop and start the following “DIN-Sync” (also called “Sync24” or “Sync48”)-device in perfect synchronisation. You push the button and the audiowerkstatt din-restarter starts or stops the following sequencer at the beginning of the next bar (4/4-stroke only) in perfect timing.
Synthesizer pioneer and Grammy Award-winning producer Malcolm Cecil has introduced iTONTO, an app for iPad and iPhone that offers up a trove of historical and technical information about the world’s largest synthesizer, TONTO. Best known for its prominence on four Stevie Wonder albums in the late 1970s, TONTO is a behemoth assemblage of various synthesizers and custom components,… Read More iTONTO App Documents “World’s Largest Synthesizer”, Benefits Bob Moog Foundation
This video, via FACT TV, takes a look into the studio of Dutch producer Legowelt (Danny Wolfers). In the video, Wolfers makes a track from scratch, using a combination of his own patches and sample packs, a tape player and more.
A sad fact of modular synthesizers is that most of your money goes for things that don’t affect how it sounds – things like the front panels, the silkscreening of the panels, the control knobs, and shipping. Now Italian synth manufacturer Soundmachines is challenging that paradigm, with a new modular synth design, the NS1nanoSynth, that disposes with many of… Read More New NS1nanoSynth Is A Handheld Modular Synthesizer
TASCAM has introduced the DA-6400 – a new 64-track recorder that records to an internal SSD drive caddy for live and event recording. The DA-6400 records 64 tracks at 48kHz/24-bit or 32 tracks at 96kHz/24-bit. Included with the DA-6400 is an AK-CC25 hot-swappable caddy containing a high-performance 240GB TASCAM solid-state drive. The caddy includes a USB 3… Read More TASCAM Intros DA-6400 64-Track Audio Recorder
Bitcount has introduced AnalogKit for iPad – an app that lets you play, share, and build synths and effects in ‘an incredible digital playground’. Analogkit takes full advantage of its digital nature and lets you hook anything into anything or chain together as many of a thing as you like, According to the developers, ‘AnalogKit… Read More AnalogKit For iPad “A Music Hacker’s Paradise”
This video demonstrates the EMW Distance Recorder – a Eurorack module that can record, and play back as a loop, gestures that you make with your hand.
