Gear hope and expectations 2022

New in 22

It looks like it’s a combination of these two. A Bitmasking mini keyboard.

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New in 22

This looks like a fun idea, from a Brazilian Company Pantala Labs. It’s called 1985 – perhaps being 1984 + 1 with the All-Seeing-Eye ? Just released yesterday.

It’s a two channel CV Gate sequencer that uses an image from a camera to create those sequences, with some restrictions on those sequences that you can control.


I google-translated the original web-site. The price is in Brazilian Real.

Not sure how good this is for real, it depends on the implementation. No demo video yet. I might have had it a stand-alone unit on a stand with controls on top, and the camera facing down, so you could put artwork, or draw below it.

Quite a reasonable price $210 USD.

They make some other off-beat sort of gear too.

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New in 22

Pylobolus – The Cloud Synthesizer . A multi-timbral polyphonic, virtual analog synth, housed in a plain box as it’s configured to use with a MIDI controller. You configure the synthesizer and interface to your preferences using a web browser interface. After that it can run standalone. The present synth engine is a very specific design, but i foresee them adding more configurations later. Set to be released this fall, and priced at 1200 Euros. This likely deserves its own thread.