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Published on May 16, 2019 Rarebeasts

"Experimental Sounds from Rarebeasts"

Rucci Touch Synthesizer 2019

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Published on May 16, 2019 Michael Rucci

Update: additional pics added below.

"This synthesizer is played by touching one of the fifteen contact points. It is monophonic and will sound the highest pitch being played. Pitch is also sensitive to pressure and even the resistance of a particular player’s skin. For example sweaty hands will produce a higher frequency.

There are also two effect points. The far left contact point adds modulation and the far right contact point responds well to light touches that can zap the frequency well out of audible range. In addition to a control for modulation speed there is a low pass filter and volume control.

It has a mono 1/4″ output and is powered by an included 9V battery."

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Superbooth 2019 - Mayer M800 Poly Eurorack and Control System

Published on May 17, 2019 sonicstate

"This is a relatively new concept, almost bypassing the Eurorack concept of patching CV cables, and using the racking system to power it. The M800 is an advanced multi-timbral poly unit with sample player, arpeggiators and plenty more, but uses a secondary bus to receive control signals from dedicated controller modules. These make no sound themselves, but are used to control the main M800 unit.
It remains to be seen if the world is ready for such a conceptual sea change, but it has some interesting possibilities."

Superbooth 2019 - Cherry Audio Voltage Modular

Published on May 17, 2019 sonicstate

"Software modular environment with a 115 modules as standard, plus a VST host, and module development environment."

Superbooth 2019: E-RM - Polygogo Stereo Oscillator

Published on May 17, 2019 sonicstate

"Polygogo is a stereo Eurorack oscillator based upon E-RM's own polygonal synthesis.

'complex polygonal amplitude shaping in a 2-dimensional space which is projected into the time domain to derive strictly orthogonal signals.'

Take a polygon and spin it in a 2D space and if you plot the 2D movement over time it creates a wave. You generate sine waves this way when you plot a position on a spinning circle.

The idea of Polygogo is that you are able to interact with the shapes and easily hear how this affects the output. The module has a graphical representation of the shape on the module itself."

Polygogo

Superbooth 2019: Flame MÄANDER 4-Voice Desktop Synthesizer

Published on May 17, 2019 sonicstate

"Flame have been around making interesting eurorack modules for quite a while now, the MÄANDER is I believe their first desktop synthesizer."

Flame MÄANDER

Superbooth 2019: Elektrofon Klang - Chord Controller Module

Published on May 17, 2019 sonicstate

"At Superbooth last year we caught up with Rune who was showing off his new module the Elektrofon Klang, we were keen this year to see how he had progressed with the module. It is one of those modules, that when you look at it you go wow!"

Elektrofon Klang

Superbooth 2019: 4ms - SWN With Dan Green And A New Percussion Interface

Published on May 17, 2019 sonicstate

"The SWN has been a long awaited module, we first saw it two years ago at Superbooth, Dan Green was on hand to show off the latest features and also show us a New Percusssion Interface module."

Superbooth 2019: Supercritical Synthesizers Demon Core Oscillator - 16 Analogue Oscillators In 12Hp!

Published on May 17, 2019 sonicstate

"New Finnish synthesizer manufacturer Supercritical Synthesizers were in the Alex 4 booth this year. We managed to grab some time with TImo to talk us through the design features of the Demon Core Oscillator."

Superbooth 2019: ACL Sinfonion - All Your Oscillators Can Now Play Nicely Together!

Published on May 17, 2019 sonicstate

"Consistantly for the last three years we have managed to grab the guys from ACL on the last day. They have always had a great patch going to demonstrate their new modules and this year was no exception. Mathias was on hand to show off the latest addition to the ACL line, the Sinfonion."

Sinfonion