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3rd Wave, wavetable synth beast, does MPE and is now in desktop form
Groove Synthesis, the instrument maker founded by veterans of Sequential and Oberheim, has taken their massive 24-voice wavetable synth and put it into a desktop form.
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Roland SH-4d polysynth: 11 models in one knob-y box with tons of extras, drums – and motion
Roland has built one packed instrument to celebrate 50 years of the company’s synths. The SH-4d sports eleven synth oscillator models in one box – from SH-101 and JUNO-106 to new cross FM and wavetable synths. But it’s still hands-on, battery-powered, and costs US$649. And there’s a twist, literally: D-MOTION motion control means you can pick up the synth and play it by moving it around.
Peter Kirn - February 23, 2023
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New in Arturia Pigments 4 soft synth: UI, tuning, modulation, effects, filters, engines, sounds
Arturia is bringing improvements to every conceivable area of their flagship soft synth. Pigments started off demonstrating Arturia could do more than emulate the past; now it’s starting to look like the polysynth to beat.
Peter Kirn - December 13, 2022
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Hands-on tour of the Oberheim OB-X8 architecture, feature by feature, with Francis Preve
Francis Preve - May 10, 2022
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Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide
Peter Kirn - September 22, 2021
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Moog Matriarch puts all your analog sound shaping in one keyboard
Peter Kirn - April 25, 2019
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KORG’s minilogue xd is a new 4-voice synth with the best of the rest
Peter Kirn - January 15, 2019
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