Novation Bass Station gets a GForce software model and it’s perfect

Nothing punches like the Novation Bass Station, the UK company’s 1993 analog original. GForce Software makes a pretty good argument for making this a plug-in: emulate all the powerful sound of the synth and its filter, but add awesome modulation, effects, and sequencer/arp, unison mode, up to 16-voice polyphony, and make it mega-affordable (or free with a keyboard controller).

MCO mk2 module showing different modes on color display, with graphics - DigiWave, SuperSaw, ToneSum (Additive), LFO Rate, FOrmant, Spread, Shape (Noise), and Voice BC8000 (Vari-mode), panel with CV1, CV, CV3 inputs and push-button knob/navigation.

ALM’s new MCO mk2 packs a studio of classic digital synths into 6HP, VCV

You won’t fit more synths into 6HP of Eurorack (or VCV Rack module) than the newest ALM/Busy Circuits module, MCO v2. It’s a wavetable synth, an additive synth, a Roland JP8000 voice, a vocoder, a 90s VA, a bass and drum synth, and a SID chip emulation all in one.

Peter Kirn - December 3, 2024

Okay, the “frog” bass stabs on MJ’s Thriller is a Casiotone MT-60

Never underestimate the power of simple synthesis tricks, least of all in the hands of vintage Casio designers. The distinctive “frog” bass croak in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” recorded in 1982, comes from a Casiotone MT-60. And it’s a sound you can patch up yourself.

Peter Kirn - November 1, 2024

Modor DR-2, Belgian beast of a drum machine, now does basslines, too

Peter Kirn - October 14, 2024

Free Surge XT 1.3 adds OSC, command line, new effects, more features

Peter Kirn - December 8, 2023

Donner’s $199 B1 bass synth – sequencer just got song mode and randomization

Peter Kirn - August 17, 2023

1976’s growling CAT synth now in a plug-in, co-created with original designer Carmine Bonanno

Peter Kirn - July 11, 2023

MOD Devices made a guitar synth you can actually play like a synth – so your guitar is the CV

Peter Kirn - May 24, 2022

Moog’s Subsequent 25 synth is here, and it’s got an animated film to go with it

Peter Kirn - January 16, 2020

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