Finally a Synth I can buy my Granny!
Probably a small thing but there is something new called the PlayFader a 2 channel CV performance looper device from a company ( startup ? ) called Play All Day to be unveiled at MB.
There is a small company – not sure the name – that intends to show a new groovebox the xr-1.
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Anyone know any more about this ?
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Nortkele.
Oooo, something close enough to to actually go along to. Exciting.
Any clues on the ticket price? The RA website is totally jaffed at the moment.
Edit: RA site now working…ticket price now around £35 
Neuzeit will be showing off their new Warp Eurorack module. They showed this in the Spring at Superbooth ( my post ), but they are now shipping, and have completed ( at least an initial ) sound design.
There is a lot ( digitally ) going on under the surface, but the controls make it pretty approachable. It is both an additive and wavetable synthesis, and fills a sound space that is rather unique ( too my ears at least ). This one is worth paying attention too. There is an expansion module that adds polyphony and MPE support – up to four voices of polyphony.
They put together an hour long demo that really shows this synth off.
Looking forward to more word from those at the show on this. ( in just a week now. )
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Demo is interesting.
I would like to know why there is a small screen and a large light display (which I gather is conveying some information, but still).
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Befaco is ready to ship their Eurorack FX unit FX Boy, that comes with seven different hot pluggable cards, designed by different synth makers to give very different effects. This was shown at Superbooth, but will ship in October.
The seven modules :
- Touell Skouarn with Skuara, a harsh fuzz with overdrive
- Instruo with micro Phaser, a two-flavoured Phaser
- FEEDBACK Modules with a vintage Flanger
- XOR with FXGirl, a digital double effect module: Delay + Granularizer
- Making Sound Machines with an analogue Wave folder
- Tesseract with a bit crusher
- Befaco with Trash distortion
I think this is a great concept, bringing together all these separate makers for very different signature sounds. There is also a bare board that will allow you to make your own custom plug-in.
ADDED : I like the idea of being able to quickly change a modular set-up by just changing a plug in card rather than having several separate FX modules and rearranging the cabling.
ADDED : DivKid did a really good video on the FX options on the FX Boy, and how they sound. The video is just worth listening too. He has me convinced now on the value of this module.
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This could be a show stealer, Torso is very capable of that sort of product, and they probably have been working on it for a while.
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OK – More information.
Definitely looks and sound interesting.
And Elektronauts has ( i think ) an old and empty thread on this. Or maybe not, perhaps there was another XR-1.
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Yeah I will be presenting the xr-1 at Machina, very excited! That old thread was for a previous idea I had that used the same name.
Basically, around 2020 I wanted to make a 909 style drum machine. Then I thought maybe a program change sequencer would be interesting given that so many synths have great sequencers but may not have a song/arrangement mode. Then I took a break, and came back to wanting to make a device that I actually wanted for myself to be able to use when making music or performing, sort of inspired by a lot of great gear that I liked but felt that any one device didn’t capture fully, so the xr-1 is that.
I had no idea that article was going to be made about it, but very nice of them to do! There’s still a lot of work to be done before launch, and I plan on having a sign up page available after/around when Machina happens this Saturday.
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Oooo come say hello at the Future Sound Systems stand!
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Am I right in thinking that most of the lineup, talks, and exhibitors are modular related?
For those not into modular (nor wishing to be) is this worth going to?
I’m not remotely into modular but I’ll be there. 
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Kind of hard not to be now days i think.
Some exhibitors without much Eurorack in them :
- Arturia – shoot, just about everything they do has a modular aspect.
- ASM Hydrasynth – damn there are those built-in CV interfaces, and the whole internal layout is modularesque
- Bitwig – OK they have “The Grid”
- Bjooks – Books, safe
- Eventide – Oh but they have Misha
- Cong Burn and Isotonik – They look safe, software only
- Finegear – Nothing modular, but all three products are awfully fiddly
- Majella – The Implexus is cool, but the company started doing modular
- Mellotron – Safe
- Midicake – Safe
- Moog – Well shoot, i don’t know what to call it
- Oxi – But they have Coral now
- Song Athletics – Nobody knows what they do yet – risky
- Teenage Engineering – Somebody tell me, i think they make tables
- Vermona – We got modular
I think you ought to. If you’ve got the time and the money that is.
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That make me laugh out acoustically 
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Very unsafe: 
Plus the “with Moog” and “with Korg” extensions.
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Oh shoot !! Just don’t look inside then.
Knobula will release their second polyphonic Eurorack module the Pianophonic on October 8th.
This is a wavetable and samples based 8 voice module, that starts with piano like sounds and then goes a ways out. Waiting for some more current videos as the latest i found so far are from four month back.
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