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Synthmaster, the new master modular synth

OK, so there is a new beast in town, from new guys, and everything seems very promising: KV331 Audio just release their first Software Synthesizer, the SynthMaster !

SynthMaster is a semi-modular fully loaded with:

  • 3 Additive Oscillators
  • 3 Multi-mode Filters
  • 4 Modulators
  • 2 MIDI LFOs
  • 2 32 step Patterns
  • 16 Step Arpeggiator
  • 8 Band parametric EQ
  • Stereo Echo / Delay
  • 16 Band Vocoder
  • Stereo Chorus / Flanger
  • Stereo Reverb

It all looks very good, and what’s nice is that you can download and use a real free version that will let you really test this synthesizer before buying it. The free version has only a few limitations, nothing that will prevent you to use it and play it !

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New Synth forum on FlickR

Via Matrix Synth and FlickR where there is a new photo group dedicated to Synths that just have been created, it’s called Synthesizerforum and you’ll find there a lot of pics of gear and live acts except, as mentioned, guitars !

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The ultimate Ambient Synth ?

Zero-G just released Outer Limits, a new virtual instrument powered by Native Instruments Kompakt, that will be one of the most waited present for Christmas to all the Ambient musicians !

Or maybe you will not wait and order right now this 5 Gigs and 500 sounds library patiently hand crafted by Ian Boddy, one of the finest synthesists, from an incredible and very impressive gear list.

What they say :

OUTER LIMITS is Ian Boddy’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed MORPHOLOGY Kompakt instrument but this time he has delved deeper and darker than ever before. Every patch in this fantastic collection will stimulate your creativity. The range of sounds this instrument is capable of is truly amazing, from shimmering pads, to mysterious drones, crystalline digital manipulations to dark distorted atmospheres, menacing mechanisms, evocative resonances, surreal sound effects, complex cascades, formant sheens, dark disturbing horror, analogue waves, amazing space textures, strange vocal synthesis and of course, sounds from the Outer Limits of space and time. Patches this complex put many other synths to shame! And you can layer EIGHT of these at a time to create incredibly complex soundscapes.

Categories include: Ambient Loops, Analogue Waves, Chamber of Horrors, Click & Glitch, Deep Space, Dense Soundscapes, Digital Drones, Digital Manipulations, Distorted Views, Heavy Drones, Machine Dreams, Minimalism, One Shot Synth FX, Outer Limits, Surreal to Real, Transcendental, Twisted Pads, Vintage Synth Atmos, Vocal Transformations and White Noise Atmospheres.

The demos sound amazing. So, you’ll wait or not ?

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A New Keyboard for Christmas

Houra ! We’re in December now, and all this month I’ll recommend a few exceptional gears to the Ambient musician that is sleeping in you !

To begin with, nothing more natural than a keyboard ! But not an average one, I’m talking here about an incredible USB/MIDI Master Keyboard done by CME, that is called the UF.

Those incredible keys are far different from the regular ones that we know, here no plastic, no cheap knobs, here we are talking aluminum case, quality sliders, sequencer remote control … the list is too long !

So why don’t you do like my friend Patrice and get one for yourself ?

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