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Morphor successfully kickstarted the AP-1 plucked module last year. This time we have Ensemble, an analogue eight-voice BBD Chorus.
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Behringer has completed the development of the SOLINA String Ensemble. The recreation of the classic string machine will ship once the required chips are available.
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In the late 1970s, Gary Numan created synth-driven sounds that would inspire many artists to come. We look at the gear he used to do it!
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Slate Digital has teamed up with producer Murda Beatz to create Murda Melodies, a creative multi-effect for transforming your melodies and synth lines.
GEM Modula packs emulations of three classic modulation units - the Roland Dimension D, the Solina String Ensemble, and the Yamaha SPX90.
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The X-505 is a string machine, a synthesizer, and a bass synth in one vintage analog style software synthesizer modelled on the Roland RS-505 with some added choir for good measure
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GForce brings stereo playback to their Virtual String Machine along with 3.5GB of new stereo library and they've redesigned the GUI for higher density screens and routed the LFO to the filter.
Somewhat in the shadow of the release of Kyra, the Waldorf STVC String Synthesizer is here to show us how to do the old string/vocoder thing properly.
Uli Behringer would like to gauge interest in reviving the ARP Solina String Ensemble Analog Synthesizer. They'd add in a phase shifter, have it Eurorack friendly and make it terribly affordable.
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Verv is a string machine based on tape loops that have been left in the sun, on the dashboard of a car, in the desert, for the summer. It's wobbly wonderland of degraded sounds.
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A splurge of string synths appeared in the 1970's after the success of the Solina Strings. The EKO Stradivarius was one of the more obscure but favoured by Vangelis for its spooky and atmospheric tones.
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A re-imagining of the classic Arp Solina Strings to make it groovier, fruitier and even more heavenly. They've mixed in an analogue synthesizer and some sequencing to create a heady cocktail of lushness.
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In addition to debuting its latest and greatest AD/DA converter with the new expansion card for the Symphony Mk II flagship interface, Apogee revealed its all-new DualPath FX Rack plug-ins...
Apogee adds some new functions to its Ensemble Thunderbolt solution through the back door, with a new Apogee Control software and enhanced support for Logic Pro X.
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FusionBox is a fully analogue tube driven delay, chorus, flanger with a Vintage Stereo Ensemble that wants to live on your desktop. You have to hear this thing!
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If you own Reaktor Blocks then prepare to lose a couple of hours playing with Processorz, a free remix effects processor that's too much fun.
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Experience the awesomeness of Buchla modular West coast synthesis in Cloudlab 200t a free instrument for Reaktor.
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I Picked up my guitar and now I'm drifting off into some kind of other worldly place of mesmeric paradise - SLOW is a really very long reverb by Tim Exile.
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Is this round 2 of the Apogee vs Focusrite Thunderbolt 'inter-face-off'? These new Element Thunderbolt interfaces almost mirror the Focusrite Clarett range.
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The ZM-1 performs the impossible. Allegedly. Imagine a band sitting around one mic, after which you were able to balance their individual levels and isolate them. Can this possibly work as well as its makers ...
Handcrafted in Portland, OR, Ear Trumpet Labs add another product to their eclectic microphone range.