NAMM 2018 Malekko Manther Grow and Rampage Sound Demo (no talk)

Published on Jan 24, 2018 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

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NAMM 2018 Pittsburgh Modular Microvolt 3900 Sound Demo and Walkthrough

Published on Jan 24, 2018 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

New desktop synth from Pittsburgh Modular.

Available in April $629

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NAMM 2018 Catalyst Audio System 100 Walkthrough and Sound Demo

Published on Jan 24, 2018 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

Buchla clones in eurorack.

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NAMM 2018 Qu Bit Electronix Synapse Crossfading Switch Walkthrough

Published on Jan 24, 2018 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

Available in June $339

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NAMM 2018 Qu Bit Electronix Scanned Organic Wavetable VCO Walkthrough

Published on Jan 24, 2018 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

Available in May $349

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NAMM 2018 Qu Bit Electronix Nebulae V2 Walkthrough

Published on Jan 24, 2018 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

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Silk To Dry The Tears - Benefit Album for Oakland Warehouse Fire

An anonymous reader wrote in to let us know Silk To Dry The Tears, a benefit album for the Oakland warehouse fire in 2016, will be released this February 9th.

via Silk To Dry The Tears on BandCamp:

"Sorrow’s only silver lining is the selflessness it inspires in others. The nightmare of last year’s fire in Oakland left so many of us shredded, shattered, and speechless. But a communal compassion surged up in response, with artists, allies, and acquaintances from all over the globe re-connecting and re-committing to the power and potential of independent music as a healing, unifying force. So many SILK friends and family reached out expressing the desire to contribute creatively to a relief effort it was clear the emotion deserved an outlet. Silk To Dry The Tears collects 31 such songs from a spectrum of 100% Silk alumni and affiliates, threaded across four sides of fogged house, fantasy acid, nocturnal electronics, sleepwalker pop, and rhythmic reveries of varied internal states. Totaling nearly 170 minutes, it’s a sprawl and a statement, shared in the spirit of inclusion, endurance, and empathy. Music brought us together; music will keep us together.

50% the profits will be donated to Safer DIY Spaces, an Oakland-based coalition offering guidance, financial assistance, and labor to non-traditional creative community spaces: diysafetygroup.org"

Percussa Super Signal Processor Eurorack Module Update

via the Percussa SSP kickstarter:

"Front panel finishes, switch caps colours, menu system updates, demo case and more

Hi all!

It’s time for another update! This week the NAMM show is happening in Anaheim, CA, one of the main tradeshows for musical instruments and music technology. We are not exhibiting or going as we decided to focus on the development of the SSP. A lot has happend over the past 10 days, below is a summary of what’s new including lots of nice photos :-)

1) Ordering more parts for the upcoming production

We already bought most components with long lead times for the SSP right when the kickstarter finished (such as the CPU modules), and now we continue buying the rest of the parts, such as switches, switch caps, ADCs and DACs, etc. Our commodity components will be bought further down the line as we get closer to production. We already got our programmable logic ICs which we received last week from our parts supplier, which is one of the few lead time sensitive parts specific to our design that we wanted to have early on so we don’t have to delay the assembly and shipping later on. So planning wise everything looks good, we got our PCBs, front panels and most of our lead time sensitive components. We’ll continue buying over the coming weeks and keep you updated about the production of the SSP.

2) Further experiments with front panel customizations

Our initial idea for front panel customization was to do laser engraving, but we wanted to see what it would look like if we machined our logo (and potentially any customizations) into the front panel before anodization instead of doing laser engraving. Laser engraving looks like gray text on a black background while with machining you can have more subtle customizations. I did the machining for the prototype below on our own CNC router. We’ll make a decision about what process to use over the coming weeks.

Besides that we are thinking about cosmetic hardware features ways to make navigation as easy as possible in our software user interface, such as different colours of switch caps. Although originally we planned to use only black switch caps, we might group certain buttons together using a colour, for example red for the cursor keys and grey for the menu keys, while the function soft keys would remain black. Below you can see an example grouping. This might still change as we continue working on the software and see the need to group certain buttons together.

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Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES with Her Moog Mug

via @laurenevemay, via @moogmusicinc

"Back in my natural habitat #MoogMug @moogmusicinc"

You find the Minimug on Moog's Merch Store here.

Rossum Electro-Music ASSIMIL8OR Packaging

First image of the packaging the new Rossum Electro-Music ASSIMIL8OR eurorack module will come in. We tend to mainly focus on the sound and capability of our gear, but it's also interesting to see what makers come up with for packaging and graphic design.