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The spirit of Synthi is back, in the new Erica SYNTRX
It’s the Latvian Synthi that never was – an all-new instrument, not a clone, built around the signature analog matrix. England’s EMS Synthi AKS is simply one of the greatest-ever standalone designs for experimentation. The 1972 instrument inspired Jean Michel Jarre and Pink Floyd. But it’s not a modular – all that sonic possibility is […]
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Extreme dub delay, in the new Ninja Tune-Erica Zen Delay
We can talk a lot about engineering. But at some point, you pack vacuum tubes and DSP and chips together, and you get a delay that’s extreme enough to have Ninja Tune and Coldcut printed on it.
Peter Kirn - September 18, 2019
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Crossover VCV Rack modular: Vult goes hardware, as Erica adds free software
Hardware or software? Yes. Modular synthesizers, of all things, are blurring the line between the two. The popular Vult line of software modules for VCV Rack is going hardware, just as Erica Synths offers its popular hardware in a free software form on the same platform. VCV Rack has rapidly established itself as a platform […]
Peter Kirn - July 29, 2019
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Hands on Erica Synths Techno System, dream industrial modular
Peter Kirn - June 18, 2019
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Free download: A 400-page guide to experimental Eastern Europe sounds
Peter Kirn - January 29, 2019
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Erica Synths made a modular techno system called Techno System
Peter Kirn - May 4, 2018
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Ninja Tune are doing their own multi-delay, and it looks wild
Peter Kirn - April 10, 2018
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