Polish gear startup Polyend has released a video featuring electronic musician Robert Lippok and the company’s Poly, a polyphonic MIDI to CV converter module. The Poly module boasts “all kinds of MIDI inputs.” Users can connect their computer, smartphone or tablet to the module’s USB port, their class-compliant MIDI controllers via USB Host, and all… Read More Polyend Poly MIDI-to-CV Module Demo
LittleBits Electronics recently debuted their bitLab where users, prototypers, and designers can submit their idea for what the company should manufacture next. LittleBits eCommerce Manager Phil DeGisi explains, “If the module gets enough votes from our community, we review it, and in many cases will manufacture it. If we manufacture it, the module designer gets… Read More Bleep Labs’ BleepDrum In LittleBits BitLab Vote
The Best Product Name We’ve Heard This Year At The NAMM Show 2012: Synthetic Sound Labs has just released its first Euro rack format module, the Model 2260 Modulation Orgy. This new 16 HP width module contains a Low Frequency Oscillator (LFO) that offers ‘unmatched modulation flexibility’. Synthetic Sound Labs has been in the analog… Read More NAMM 2012: Modulation Orgy LFO From Synthetic Sound Labs
Vicmod continues its excellent series of interviews with synth gear designers with a talk with Harvestman’s Scott Yaeger. In the interview, Yaeger discusses the ideas behind his line of synth modules: Those sounds are what I first heard when being introduced to electronically generated sounds at a young age. Atari 5200 and a Casio SK-1… Read More An Interview With Harvestman’s Scott Jaeger
Krisp1 Modular Construction (Paul Darlow) is the official builder of the Oakley Modular Synthesizer synth modules, designed by Tony Allgood: Each module is built to a very high specifications and with high quality parts, Modules are tested to a very high standard before shipping and comes with a 1 year guarantee. All the sockets are… Read More Assembled Oakley Modular Synthesizer Modules
Modular synthesist Bakis Sirros sends word via the forum of new demo clips for the Analogue Systems RS370 Polyphonic Harmonic Generator, a 6-voice polyphonic harmonic generator and wavetable synthesizer. You can preview some of the sound clips below. More demo clips are available at the Big City Music site. RS370 Features: 6-voice polyphonic harmonic generator… Read More Analogue Systems RS370 Polyphonic Harmonic Generator
Velvet Acid Christ‘s Bryan Erickson has published a nice interview with Scott Jaeger, the guy behind The Harvestman‘s digital synth modules. The Harvestman has introduced some of the most interesting and innovative new synth modules in recent memory, including the TymeSefari loop sampler/delay and the Malgorithm voltage-controlled bit-crusher. Here are a few highlights: BE: What… Read More Interview With Harvestman’s Scott Jaeger
