A growing list of things to watch for at Knobcon :
All day Saturday, is going to be a VJ Seminar downstairs. Very sparce details so far. Here’s a video done in 2017 by VJ Seminar organizer Andrew Zeuske.
There are no details yet on all who will be giving presentations at the VJ Seminar, but i think it likely that someone from Entropy & Sons will be part of that. They are also at Knobcon showing their new video synthesizer, the Positronic Recursion Studio. I posted about that in the NAMM 2022 thread.
Ultraviolet Music Synthesizers will be showing off their new product Sea of Wonder. This is a multi-timbral polyphonic, GPU based soft synth, likely someday to have a custom controller, that includes control knobs with a color link to various parameters shown on the screen, as well as a host of CV inputs and outputs. Expecting this product to be in an early somewhat raw form => web-site. GPU based audio generation is a new trend likely to show some real potential in the next few years.
WMD will be at the show, their swan song, showing off three new products and saying goodbye as they close up shop toward the end of this year. Read more in Elektronaut’s WMD grief thread.
Trovarsi is going to be at the show. Not sure if this will include her giving a performance, likely so. But she has done stuff with ASM before, and they’ll be there too. Glen Darcey, has said very little on any new products from ASM, except that they do have plans for something someday.
Tony Stuart of Wildwood Soundworks is working on a tiny, portable, sequencer synth, called the MM-9. It’s too early to get much detail on this. Here’s the web-site. You might find some similarity with the MM-9 to the new new Nunomo Quantize Mk2. See this Elektronauts thread though they are not at the show.
Additionally you’ll find plenty of Eurorack developers showing their wares at Knobcon.
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So here’s two more big ones, and a fun idea.
First one is a scoop for this thread.
Artisan Electronic Instruments is releasing their Nucleus Eurorack analog-hybrid East/West coast mono synth at Knobcon.
And they are announcing a new product the illiad, a four voice keyboard synth.
And they are showing the Polygon a polysynth that uses the technology they have developed with the Nucleus. See the pictures at their web-site.
Artisan had tried to fund the Nucleus a while back, and the project failed at the crowdfunding stage. Nice to see they just kept going. There is a Elektronaut thread for this as well.
The second is another company that just sticks to it.
Therevox
They sell an instrument, the ET-5 with a historic influence of the Ondes Martenot and the Electro-Theremin. Will be fun to see what Therevox has going with it now at Knobcon.
I did a thread on Therevox and the ET-5 product.
And the fun idea, is just an idea, who knows ? This is in the category of a return.
One of the exhibitors at Knobcon is a slash combinations of two companies. Sequential/Oberheim !! They certainly can show off the OB-X8 ( thread ).
But what if there was another return ? With Sequential’s manufacturing muscle, and perhaps a little engineering it might be possible to make a few more of the TVS-PRO. ( thread ).
Just me speculating.
Artisan Nucleus
