An Interview with Klaus Schulze on Astronauta Pinguim

You'll find the full interview on Astronauta Pinguim here.

Pictured: Brussels, 1976 © Klaus D. Mueller

Excerpt from the interview:

"ASTRONAUTA - What was your favorite synthesizer in the '70s? And, looking back, what is (or remained as) your favorite synthesizer from the '70s, nowadays?

KLAUS SCHULZE - I always liked the instruments that had a special sound: the 'Minimoog' oscillators have this great deep and full tone; the 'Farfisa Syntorchester' had this 'female solo singing voice' in the higher register, at least the instrument that I owned; the Moog modular system had the wonderful sequencer; the 'Yamaha CS 80' had this and the 'EMS Synthi A' had that... I used every instrument for a certain & special part to create the sounds of my music that I needed and wanted. Also not unimportant were the effect tools and the method I made use of them: echo, repeat, flanger, phase shifter, etc. and not to forget: the recording and mixing technique: building 'rooms', left, right, back, front... (besides all the musical techniques of composing a piece of music, with intro, various parts, tension, breaks, chaos and beauty, rhythm and calmness, repetition, sounds, melodies, surprises, etc, etc, etc...)"

Simple acid patch using the Verbos modules (Buchla sound)

Published on Jul 13, 2014 Pepe Mogt

"Here is a simple patch using the Verbos Eurorack modules on a TipTop Audio Station 252 folding Case.
Harmonic Oscillator
Dual Four Pole Filter
Amplitude and Tone Controller
Cwejman Dual Transiente Generator.
Focusrite TwinTrack Pro.
The sequence was made with the TT-303 and delay by Eventide Time factor and Jomox 888.

No plugins, just direct audio recording to computer"

Sound Design Mike Kiraly

Sunday Night Sound Design 07.14.14 Published on Jul 13, 2014

"Working on some cinematic sound design with the modular. This is a single patch (except the kick and claps). The critical modules used are the The Harvestman Piston Honda mkII, ADDAC 601 Fixed Filterbank, Modcan Quad LFO and Make Noise Erbe-Verb. Also used: Make Noise Optomix, Modcan Quad Envelope, Modcan Dual Delay, TipTop Z-DSP, Make Noise Rene and 4ms QCD."

Sunday Night Sound Design


Sound Design With The Modular (Make Noise Erbe-Verb / Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteratis)

Published on Jun 30, 2014

"Sound Design With The Modular - Make Noise Erbe-Verb / Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteratis are the only sound sources. Modulations from a Mutable-Instruments Tides and a Synthesis Technology Dual Morphing LFO."

Sound Design With The Modular Pt. 2

A Minute With The Modular

Published on Oct 16, 2013 Mike Kiraly

"Messing around."

Sunday night modular

Published on Jan 21, 2013

"A little bit of riffing."

First patch with the ADDAC 601 Fixed Filterbank

Published on Apr 10, 2014 Mike Kiraly

"The modules in the video are what was used to create the patch. Braids and Morphing Terrarium fed through a modulated ADDAC 601. Output is then sent to an Echophon and Z-DSP."

Tuesday Night Live

Published on Apr 1, 2014 Mike Kiraly

"Decided to record a quick live improvisation session.This is one of the methods I use for creating sounds for new material. No pre-planning or prep work. No editing or mixing. Just turn it all on, hit record, press some buttons and twist some knobs. It never turns out perfect, but there is usually some cool bits to develop further upon later (I think the breakdown 7.30 min is worth revisiting for a new track)"

8 Minutes with an Akai AX-80

Published on Jul 13, 2014 gstormelectro

"All video and music by c.2014 G-Storm Electro
http://gstormelectronica.blogspot.com/

There are quite a few good demos of the AX-80 out there already. I wanted to program a few basic sounds and some unique aspects of the AX-80. Some parts I use the Beatstep sequencer, chord memory, and the Big Sky reverb."

ROLAND JD800 DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER W/ SOUND LIBRARY CARDS & Original Box SN Z067748

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" Here is a Roland JD800 digital synthesizer with it's Factory box, 4- sound expansion cards and power cable in great condition. The 4 sound cards that are included are the: String ensemble, Accordion, Brass section and Guitar collection. This keyboard has had little use. All buttons, sliders, knobs and inputs/outputs work well."

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Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 Analog Synthesizer with Flight Case SN 2214

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Vintage 1973 Minimoog Model D SN 2875

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"This Model D has the Old Oscillator Board, and it has that fat old Moog sound that is very sought after. The Pitch and Mod wheels are the older Smooth plastic kind. This Minimoog is in excellent condition and is extremely reliable. There is some wear and stable hairline cracks on the wood cabinet on the corners, see pics. The front black panels and Moog badges still have the protective manufacturer plastic attached.

The bottom says "Shiloh". From what I was told by the previous owner is that Shiloh (1989-91) was the name of the band before they changed the name to Big Mountain in 1991. Big Mountain was famous for the hit song "Baby, I love your way". I do not have any documentation to confirm that this belonged to Shiloh.

Includes a new Anvil ATA Flight Case, Model D Operation Manual, Minimoog Sound Charts (showing Moog preset examples), and (3) packets of User Sound Charts."

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Korg Gadget Instrument Tours by AppSessions

iTunes: KORG Gadget - KORG INC.

Playlist as of this post:
Easily Make 4 Different Drum Beats - Korg Gadget
Korg Gadget - Chicago - Instrument Tour (Part 1)
Korg Gadget - Marseille - Instrument Tour (Part 2)
Korg Gadget - Berlin - Instrument Tour (Part 3)
Korg Gadget - Dublin - Instrument Tour (Part 4)
Korg Gadget - London - Instrument Tour (Part 5)
Korg Gadget - Brussels - Instrument Tour (Part 6)
Korg Gadget - Kiev - Instrument Tour (Part 4)

DM1 - App Tour

Published on Jun 26, 2014 AppSessions

"Lets look at The Drum Machine 'DM1'

It's a really easy to learn and play drum machine app for ipad and iphone — and even a desktop mac version. I recommend it, great for beginners..."

iTunes: DM1 - The Drum Machine - Fingerlab

76 Synthesizer - App tour

Published on Jul 13, 2014 AppSessions

"76 Synthesizer is a virtual analog monophonic synth for the iPad. Inspired by synthesizers from the 70's, the 76 Synthesizer combines playability with style."

What he couldn't read is the ADSR envelope.

iTunes: 76 Synthesizer - Never Be Normal

Super Mario Land - Title Music (Game Boy) - Moog Minimoog Model D - Polyphonic Processing

Published on Jul 13, 2014 MrCaliforniaD

"Modified Moog Minimoog Model D polyphony using Notelogic from Xhip.net

Triangle Waveform with OSC 2 hard sync (2 oct. up + Square Waveform) and feedback loop to overdrive the final sound."

Answers to Questions 1 - Juno 106 Module Board Test Points

Published on Jul 13, 2014 Syntegrator

"I was asked via private message a question concerning early model Juno-106 module boards - These are missing test points 14-19 as shown in my calibration videos. This video covers the specifics of the early revision module board and explains how to find the equivalent test points on the appropriate trimmer controls."

Blue Lantern Dwarf Star Midi Production Examples

Dwarf Star pagan theme song and computer music

Published on Jul 13, 2014 Flavio Mireles

Blue Lantern Dwarf Star on Ebay

Blue Lantern Dwarf Star Midi Production Example


"This is a very musical synthesizer."

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Rollz-5 Performance

Rollz-5 Performance from Kyle Martin on Vimeo.

via Kyle Martin on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge:

"Here's a performance demo of the Meng Qi Rollz-5! It's almost impossible to explain without touching it or going to into metaphors about mushroom planets, so I've done the next best thing. Enjoy!"

Quantify Me (MU Modular Session)

Published on Jul 13, 2014 alternatingbitmusic

"Playing around with the Dotcom Q171 Quantizer Bank (though not seen in the shot... lets face it, it has no cool blinking lights)"

Analog four & octatrack - terre

Published on Jul 13, 2014 dakitanmonkey

"Deep / ambient track."

Elektrons on eBay

RITM-2 VINTAGE ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

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"This synth has a great moog-like sound and is capable of blowing speakers with it's fat punchy sound and sonic capability...it can do squelchy 303 style bass lines or creamy smooth moog-like sounds as well. And it will also do great acoustic instrument sounds too or just whatever you want to create..as with a Minimoog, the Ritm-2 sound possibilities are only limited by you!
This is a very easy synth to program and create with and the panel is in russian however, I have paperwork with sound patches and images of the control panel in English so once you find what each control does then you will have no problems at all creating the sounds you need..
It has pitch bend capabilities with the control wheel and also a slider control for LFO mod..you can also play the keyboard a full octave lower by bending the wheel down until it latches which makes the whole keyboard 12 steps lower.

I had the tech install input jacks so you can run other intruments thru it's filter and the Output jack is 1/4 headphone style also just like the other jacks. This was all converted so as to make it easier for use and capable of being used just like any other synth since it had the russian style output on it as the original."

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Analog Secret Weapon

Published on Jul 13, 2014 ginsengbob

"Rheem Kee bass into a Moog Low Pass Filter.
Everything is better with a Moog!"

Ableton's impulse for modular percussiv entertainement

Published on Jul 13, 2014 Robotopsy Robotopsy

"Ableton Live's impulse going with gate follower in Silent way to trigger rythm elements into modular system. Rythmic patern going into the Harvestman's Tyme Sefari MKII for some beat repeat and chaotic effex."

Animodule Clock Multiplier Eurorack Module in the Works

Published on Jul 13, 2014 JRock17991's channel

"Just a quickie showing my clock multiplier R+D.
http://animodule.bigcartel.com/ Check out AniModule's Lineup"

Update: one more test video (no audio):

Clock Divide and Multiply

Evaton Technologies at Summer NAMM

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"Going to Summer NAMM 2014 in Nashville? Go see Evaton Technologies' MKAdapter at our partner EurekaSound's booth 634 in Exhibit Hall A. And, check out EurekaSound's own cool products! The MKAdapter is a mechanical adapter that allows using any standard microphone gooseneck in place of the flexible microphone that comes with the Korg MicroKorg. Use your favorite mic directly on your favorite vocoder synth!"

MOOG TAURUS 2 ll BASS PEDALS & CONTROLLER

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The Bumblebee by Plankton Electronics

"Demos for The Bumblebee. A DIY modular drone / noise machine. Ideal for beginners and noise makers. More info @ www.planktonelectronics.com/bumblebee"

"The Bumblebee has 3 oscillators, 3 LFOs a high pass filter and a low pass filter...

The first of the Plankton Noise series. This is a super easy to mount and play DIY drone ‘n’ noise machine. A simple but powerful design capable of generate the most annoying sounds of the neighborhood. Designed for DIY beginners, noise makers, and weird sound enthusiasts, it’s modular design converts it into a very versatile machine capable of multiply its power when connected to other modular systems...

Each oscillator generates an audible tone (a square wave) controlled with the Rate potentiometer. With the Vol pot the signal is sent to the filters and then to the main output. Each osc has its own output, which is independent of the volume control.

With the CV inputs we can control the tone of the oscillator with antoher signal. This is usually done with the LFO’s or another oscillator but you can use any signal from 0 to 5V. When a signal of more than 0V feeds an oscillator its tone will increase. With the CV potentiometer we can attenuate the amount of the modulation.

OSCILLATOR MODULATION

With the gate input we can switch on and off the oscillator creating gate and ducking effects. This only accepts 0 or 5V inputs because it acts as a switch. Anyway you can experiment with other signals.

OSCILLATOR GATE

We can create a very weird patch connecting each OSC to the CV IN of the next one (OSC1 -> CV2A, OSC2 -> CV3A, OSC3 -> CV1A ). This way we create feedback between the 3 oscillators. Tweaking the RATE and CV potentiometers the machine will produce very rare sounds.

LFOS

The LFOs, Low Frequency Oscillators, are essentially the same design as the oscillator, but with a lower frequency (the lower settings are not audible). It only have one CV IN each and no GATE input. Each LFO have its own led to see the frequency. The LFOs are not connected anywhere like the Oscillators, just to its outputs.

Filters

The high pass filter cut all the frequencies below a point which is set with the HPF pot. It is usually used to remove the non desired lows and to create a thinner sound.

The low pass filter works the oposite as the HPF, cutting all the freqs over a point. Besides it have the RESO pot which produces a feedback near the cuttof frequency creating a very popular and nice gritty sound.

Setting all the volumes of the oscillators to its maximum position will cause the filters to distort.

Output

The main output sums everything and sends it to the OUT connector via the MAIN pot."

Jomox Sunsyn - RCO (Ramp Controlled Oscillator) Demo

Published on May 22, 2014 Brandon Byrd

"Explaining the functionality of the digital oscillators on the Jomox Sunsyn."

Stanford Laptop Orchestra | Twilight (2013)

Stanford Laptop Orchestra | Twilight (2013) from Ge Wang on Vimeo.

Twilight (2013) for laptop orchestra
by Ge Wang
performed by Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk)
Bing Concert Hall @ Stanford University, May 2013.

Inspired by the classic science-fiction short story “Twilight” by John W. Campbell (published in 1934, under the pseudonym “Don A. Stuart”), this piece ruminates not of the dawn, ascension, nor triumph of the human race, but of one possible demise set seven million years in the future. This end is not one of annihilation through war, nor decimation from famine or disease, but a golden decrescendo of defeat brought on by the gradual, peaceful, but unstoppable usurping of technology and machines -- and the loss of man's curiosity and sense of wonder. From the original text:

“Twilight – the sun has set. The desert out beyond, in its mystic, changing colors. The great, metal city rising straight-walled to the human city above, broken by spires and towers and great trees with scented blossoms. The silvery-rose glow in the paradise of gardens above.”

i. The Dead City
“And all the great city-structure throbbing and humming to the steady gentle beat of perfect, deathless machines built more than three million years before – and never touched since that time by human hands. And they go on. The dead city. The men that have lived, and hoped, and built – and died to leave behind them those little men who can only wonder and look and long for a forgotten kind of companionship. They wander through the vast cities their ancestors built, knowing less of them than the machines themselves.”

ii. A Song of Longing
“And the songs. Those tell the story best, I think. Little, hopeless, wondering men amid vast unknowing, blind machines that started three million years before – and just never knew how to stop. They are dead – and can't die and be still.”

This is the first installment in the Twilight series for various and mixed media. The cycle explores the psychology, longing, beauty and sadness of a twilight of humanity ending not in a bang, but an irreversible powerdown, basked in the golden, lingering, dying glow of man’s dusk.

TECHNOSAURUS MICROCON II

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VERMONA SYNTHESIZER RARE VINTAGE ANALOG GDR SN 211289

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"One of the only analog synthesizers produced by German music company Vermona throughout the 1980's. It is a 2-VCO monophonic analog synthesizer.  It has most basic analog edit parameters. A 24 dB/oct analog VCF (filter) with 4 knobs (Brilliance, CutOff, Resonance, Contour), a single LFO to modulate the VCO or VCF sections and a typical ADSR VCA envelope.  There are preset VCF and VCA settings as well as a Manual mode. There is also a possibility to split the keyboard to 2 section (with setting up different timbres of sounding)"

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Roland Jupiter 8 SN 343077

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"If you're looking at this you probably already know what this is.. it's the grand - daddy of all analog synthesizer..
It's in good condition considering its age, never been abused, just some scratches on the body. There are a few of what looks like small cigarettes burns on the keys (pic #11).
The arpeggio rate slider's knob and arpeggio up button are not original, other than that it's all original.
Serial number 343077 and has been tested in fully working order and takes 220v voltage.

The Jupiter-8 was Roland's first truly professional analog synthesizer. The Jupiter-8 features 16 rich analog oscillators at 2 per voice, eight voice polyphony and easy programming! At eight voices you can get some pretty thick analog sounds. Easy and intuitive programming via front panel sliders, knobs and buttons for all your tweaking needs. The legacy of the Jupiter synthesizers is due to their unique voice architecture and design, creating sounds that were so unreal and amazing that they have to be heard! No other synths in the world can create analog sounds as cool and authentic as these.

The Jupiter-8 was the biggest and fattest of them all (Jupiters and Junos)! It was one of the first synths to allow its keyboard to be split and layered - it's eight voices of trance heaven! Cross-mod, oscillator sync, a great LFO and a classic arpeggiator are also on-board. There's also a killer resonant analog low pass filter, same as the Juno-6 / 60, with the added option of choosing 2-pole (12 dB/oct) or 4-pole (24 dB/oct) modes as well as a separate high-pass filter."

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ARP ODYSSEY 2813 W/PPC Vintage Analog duo-phonic Synthesizer restored SN 0927

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"Vintage ARP 2813 Odyssey two oscillator voltage controlled duo-phonic analog synthesizer

Smooth sliders. This item is really good. It has been fully calibrated and totally gone through. It is very stable, plays and scales in tune. The old keyboard bushings have been replaced with new soft ones for the "like new" pratt and reed feel. The cosmetic condition is good. Expect a few scratches and cosmetic blemishes as this keyboard is nearing 40 years old. The pictures show the condition pretty well. This is a really nice odyssey. This keyboard is a solid 8 out of 10."

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ODYSSEY mkiii 2823 Vintage Analog duophonic Synthesizer restored SN 0414

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"Vintage ARP 2823 Odyssey mkiii two oscillator voltage controlled duo-phonic analog synthesizer

Smooth sliders. This item is really good. It has been fully calibrated and totally gone through. It is very stable, plays and scales in tune. The old keyboard bushings have been replaced with new soft ones for the "like new" pratt and reed feel. The cosmetic condition is good. Expect a few scratches and cosmetic blemishes as this keyboard is nearing 40 years old. The pictures show the condition pretty well. Hard to notice, there is a scratch near the port slider. Looks like the end of a cable or something was sitting on it while it was in a case. This keyboard is a solid 7.5 out of 10."

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ARP AXXE 2323 Vintage Analog mono Synthesizer full recent restoration SN 1891

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"Vintage ARP AXXE 2323 analog synthesizer.Vintage ARP 2813 Odyssey two oscillator voltage controlled duo-phonic analog synthesizer

Smooth sliders. This item is really good. It has been fully calibrated and totally gone through. It is very stable, plays and scales in tune. The old keyboard bushings have been replaced with new soft ones for the "like new" pratt and reed feel. The cosmetic condition is good. Expect a few scratches and cosmetic blemishes. The pictures show the condition pretty well. This is a really nice ARP AXXE. The red slider caps are not original. The originals are prone to cracking and always get lost. This keyboard is a solid 7.5 out of 10."

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ARP AXXE 2313 SN 249

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"Vintage ARP AXXE 2313 analog synthesizer. MOOG type FILTER. recent restoration. LOW SERIAL NUMBER. Item has brand new key-bushings and the contacts have been cleaned and aligned. All of the slide pots have been removed, disassembled, cleaned and reassembled. This item has been completely gone through. This item has been tuned and calibrated to factory spec. Most of the color slider tops are reproduction. Cosmetic condition is very good overall for a vintage item. Item has a few scratches and a few chips and is missing some of the silk screened image on the face. One of the wooden side caps looks to have had a crack repaired in the past. The side caps have been cleaned and oiled (not refinished.) They have a some signs of wear but over all look pretty good. This item has some character, and it sound amazing. See pictures.

This is a great sounding analog keyboard. Short warm up. Starts right up and plays great.

ABOUT THE "MOOG" type FILTER: This is an earlier model without the 4075 filter-module mounted on-top of the board. The parts are slightly different and are placed directly onto the main pcb board on this model. Everyone commonly calls these models the "moog filter" models. It really does sound a lot more like a moog. More creamy and a lot fuller and more brassy sounding. I believe that most of the 2313 models probably wouldn't have had this feature, but this one is an extremely low serial number at #0249. I actually have another axxe 2323 orange face that i restored at the same time and have had others in the past. That is where my information on comparison of the filter sound is coming from."

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Hohner Bass 3 Vintage Analog Synthesiser SN 90268

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Pulsor, the Strange Synth: a Max for Live Instrument

Published on Jul 12, 2014 Maurizio Giri

"Get it at http://www.amazingnoises.com/amz/product/pulsor/
Pulsor is a Max for Live virtual instrument. It is essentially a monophonic synth that produces glitching/pulsing sounds and complex rhythmic soundscapes thanks to its odd circuitry. It can also create evolving lead synth sounds, monophonic bass timbres and many other unexpected noises."

Skydivers : KORG Volca and MS20 mini

Published on Jul 13, 2014 karenevil

"Improvised soundtrack ( live recording ) for the short movie.
Telephoto movie : Canon powershot G12
Wide-angle movie : ZOOM Q4
Soundtrack : ZOOM Q3HD
Edited with Openshot on Debian wheezy."

happy nerding FM Aid

Published on Jul 13, 2014 heodesalciphron

Playlist:
FM AID module 1/4 Wiard/Richter/malekko oscillators
FM AID module 2/4 MakeNoise DPO
FM AID module 3/4 Transmission DIY VCO
FM AID module 4/4 Wiard/Richter/malekko oscillators 2

KORG monotribe x8 - n8m / BakaOscillator

Published on Jul 13, 2014

"Composed by BakaOscillator.
Use, KORG monotribe X8, KP3."

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Devil Fish-Glass jar percussion

Published on Jul 13, 2014 TB-303 Devil Fish

"An example of how the Devil Fish can be used as percussion and easily morphed back into acid.
A live jam of a track called 'The machinist' by 'Syx Ekoh'.
Devil Fish is effected by the Way Huge Echo-Puss delay.
SH-101 has an internal seq playing clocked by the Analog four and using the delay and reverb of the Analog four.
Analog four has a Pad sound, a baseline and a 4 on the floor kick.
Modular has break percussion from the TipTop DB808 and Hats8080 modules triggered by the Trigger Riot.
RS7000 extra percussion.
Kaoss pad 2 is used for vocal sample manipulation, samples are from 1940's and 50's Vocational documentaries."

Probando Los Nuevos Synthetic Instruments 2014 !! SYNTH + M I D I tools

Published on Jul 13, 2014 SyntheticInstruments

"https://www.facebook.com/syntheticinstruments

http://www.native-instruments.com/es/...

https://soundcloud.com/cstr

Mail:
mc3_64@hotmail.com"

Ginko Synthese Sampleslicer Eurorack Module in the Works

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"The long awaited ultimate realtime sampler for your modular system.
Expected in 2014.

The first batch will be manufactured from a crowdfunding project. The link to the kickstarter will be placed here soon. Subscribe to receive an e-mail as soon as the crowdfunding campaign kicks off."