Superbooth 2023: Befaco - FXBOY

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"At Superbooth 2023, we spoke to Diego from Befaco about their new FX module, FXBoy. This module allows users to change effects via cartridges, which are designed by different manufacturers. These cartridges can be easily swapped out to change the effect on the fly. The distortions are analog, but some digital options are available as well. Effects Boy will come with a bundle of cartridges, but more may be released in the future.

Befaco is also presenting their new case, a 7U case with multiple connections, including USB hosts, USB devices, and MIDI. The inputs and outputs are color-coded, and the case features a web editor to customize outputs to be gates, oscillators, envelopes, and more. Befaco is preparing a 1U version without a display and the cases will come with a lid cover and are expected to be available at the end of June.

Befaco hopes to have FXBoy available in a couple of months for under $400."

Superbooth 2023: Tiptop Audio - 296 Spectral Processing Module & Cables

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"We spoke to Gur Milstein from Tiptop Audio at Superbooth 2023, where he showed us their recreation of the Buchla 296 spectral processor module. The 296 has 16 bands, each of which have three bandpass filters, which are extremely narrow and amplified so it's not your typical EQ, but rather a sound design machine with all those inputs and outputs and its internal cross modulation for vocoding and beyond.

296 Spectral Processing Module Available: Summer 2023

Price: TBC"

Superbooth 2023: Tiptop Audio - Art - Polytip Cables


"We met with Gur from Tiptop Audio to find out about their latest project called Art. Art produces a signal they’ve been working on for over a decade that fixes the tuning problems of Eurorack systems. With Art, they can link multiple modules together and play polyphonically. This led them to develop discrete polyphonic synthesizers that can be built from separate oscillators and filters, and they also revived the Vortex 6, a fully polyphonic module which is a clone of the PPG wave 2.0 with 8-bit converters from the '80s and has six built-in oscillators. Vortex 6 can use their newly developed cable, the Polytip cable, to patch the audio out from the Vortex 6 into the audio in of the octopus filter.

With the Polytip cable, they can patch up to eight signals that carry all the signals, such as the eight filters, eight envelopes, and six VCAs of the modules. This opens up a whole new world of sonic possibilities and Tiptop are continuously working on this project and plan to release more modules that use Art in the future."

Superbooth 2023: PWM Mantis

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00:00 - Interview
05:22 - Demo

PWN announce their Mantis synth, a best-of their previous designs, and more.

Superbooth 2023: Knobula Pianophonic

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00:00 - Interview
02:25 - Demo

Knobula's new Pianophonic module generates interesting sounds from piano samples.

Superbooth 2023: Reason Objekt

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00:00 - Interview
04:24 - Demo

Reason announce their new Objekt physical modelling synth.

Superbooth 2023: Frap Tools CUNSA

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"Frap Tools release their new CUNSA filter module."

Waldorf Quantum 2 Sound Demo (no talking)

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Daft punk sequences with Arturia MicroFreak (no talking)

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"Check out my private collection of Sweet Sounds dedicated to Arturia MicroFreak: https://bit.ly/microfreaksweet"

Joranalogue Audio Design / STEP 8 and ROUTE 4 are a match made in heaven

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"The newly announced ROUTE 4 by Joranalogue Audio Design is so very useful. I didn't think I would immediately like it this much. In this video I use it to transpose and change up a sequence from STEP 8, and it transforms the 8 step sequence into 16 step patterns. Very very cool."

Jamming with 5U Modular, Akai MPC X, and 7 Synths

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Akai MPC X
5U Modular System
Moog Source
Clavia Nord Wave
Korg Mono/Poly
Xoxbox (Roland TB-303 clone)
Yamaha CS-15
Studio Electronics Boomstar 5089 mk1
Behringer 2600 (ARP 2600 clone)
Behringer Pro-1 (Sequential Circuits Pro One clone)