#686

it rings a bit false to me to see CBA acting surprised that this happened, as though the reverb gen loss sale wasn’t exactly the same and as though they haven’t employed artificial scarcity on releases in the past that breed hype and flipping “potential”. that said, joel seems like a great dude and hopefully this means no more of this icky hypebeast stuff

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#687

instruments are a market and as such, not immune to Econ 101. If they just made more until the supply met the demand, then the market would self-correct. This isn’t production problems amidst intense pressure on the global supply chain (eg some Make Noise and Intellijel products being backordered), but a conscious choice.

These intentionally limited runs end up being a pseudo-release…they exist to be written about and talked about, not to be used as a device for creating.

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#688

This how I have been feeling about alot of pedal makers lately, ihave been just ignoring whatever they release until the reviews are really in, not just the hype videos, if I end up missing out oh well, there are plenty of things that I can find to play with… especially fuzz or distortion.

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#689

while Gen loss 2 is an exiting perspective, the Arcades provides a lot in one package if you can look past the rather challenging interface

#691

is there a dl link for this somewhere or is it just bundled with ableton 11? i assumed it was a m4l device like the others

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#692

It’s bundled with Ableton yes. One of the new plugins I can’t wait to use.

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#693

It’s kind of silly but I admire the dedication to the aesthetics of Untitled Goose Game. It’s programmable in CircuitPython so it can be a lot of things, I.e. it’s not literally a module that only honks. I probably wouldn’t do it but I like the idea of 6 or 7 of these in a control skiff.

(Not technically pre-release but not sure the module deserved a dedicated thread just yet :slight_smile:)

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#694

just spent an hour yesterday exploring this one and it is THAT good! the quality of pitch shifting is huge! i’m loving all new 11 devices, especially the spectral effects i reviewed on videos for the italian ableton certified trainers channel. the spectral resonator has a unison mode which sounds like…simply the best unison effect i’ve ever heard!
ableton live 11 has evidently a lot of features and new devices geared towards the sound design\creative processing people!

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#695

Acid Rain have just released a new module called Maestro. Function-wise, it sits somewhere between an LFO and a sequencer. Looks very playable. I like their focus on performance.

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#696

And in other hex LFO news,
Dave Rossum is just friends with this Mob of Emus :laughing:

The manual goes into a lot more detail. The ability to “zoom in” to edit a single channel and then “zoom out” to the hex mode for macro control without losing that channel’s baseline is intriguing. The dual-function knobs on Panharmonium have been surprisingly tolerable IMHO but I worry that Mob of Emus (doesn’t that sound like a MtG card?) takes that formula way too far.

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#697

Yeah, I’m really torn about this one. It was very tempting to insta-preorder it which isn’t normally my thing. The possibility is clearly huge but trying to think about a) how to rearrange things for it, b) what concrete patches I’d like to use it in, and c) what it will be like to use (even after reading the manual) left me with enough questions that I’m hoping to see more. Would be very interested to hear how others see it fitting into their work though. (Also still holding out to learn more about Erica Synths Black Sequencer later this week :thinking:)

#698

For those who are interested in Moog’s new Claravox Centennial theremin (or theremins in general), there’s an update on the Theremin World Forums where Moog engineers replied to an extensive list of members’ questions and cleared up the uncertainties around the forthcoming model.

This thing is a beast!

Sure, a theremin is not an easy instrument to play, and developing a playing technique with it gets even more complicated due to a non-linear pitch field. However, Moog seems to have refined the technology of adjusting the antenna response in the digital domain, something they introduced in the Theremini model but didn’t implement properly. The Claravox appears to fix the playability issues resulting in a very responsive and well-thought musical instrument, a decent successor to the discontinued Etherwave Pro.

So if anyone is interested, I highly recommend checking it out.

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#699

This looks very very interesting. Too bad no synth bloggers are sent the modules to show what they do and explain the interface :slight_smile:

#700

I have to say this looks fantastic, and a nice (better?) alternative to the Keystep Pro.

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#701

Is there an estimated price?

#702

Engadget says $300.

#703

Loopop made an informative video, although he blows through it all at what seems like 1.5x speed. Too much coffee?

Some interesting (I thought) parallels with the WMD Metron/Voltera, but also some caveats.

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#704

That’s a solid price, but I feel like the keystep pro is the better choice for those who want to program drums, simply because of the I/O that’s available.

#705

Korg has set a good price point and footprint, but it’s more limited than Oxi One.
Not biased :wink:

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#706

I’d not heard of that until you mentioned it. Looks like a nice sequencer :+1:

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