Probably just as interesting is the SRI-2 2in 4out interface from Fluid Audio – not come across them before.

These do look quite good though, come with a huge bundle of software, low latency, probably worth a go. I confess to being a bit nervous of M-Audio since they were bought by InMusic- i mean i used to love M-Audio products but i cant help feeling that it’s not quite the same anymore. Seems all right – but what’s slightly interesting is that it’s on USB-C – is that interesting? Who knows. It’s a bit chunky but capable of 24bit and 192khz over USB. There’s 2 independent headphone outputs, metering LEDs and a nice big knob in the middle. 8 inputs with 4 mic/line, 2 instrument and 2 line inputs and 4 outputs. You kind of think it could so easily be a fabulous standalone MIDI step sequencer – but no it’s just for FL Studio and for that it’s awesome.įollowing their flavour of desktop audio interfaces M-Audio has released the M-Track 8x4m. It’s a very natty thing and even comes with a pretty fully fledged version of FL Studio in the box. You can select patterns, mute and solo tracks and move into other modes like Note mode, drum mode and performance mode making use of the pads velocity sensitivity. The integration extends to the browser letting you load up samples, plugins and projects. You can wire 4 of these together for a massive 8×32 grid.

It’s laid out as a 16×4 matrix of control mirroring the infamous FL Studio channel rack step sequencer. This synth is not for the likes of you or me.Īn unexpected controller from Akai designed for use with FL Studio. Moog has produced a wonderfully trippy promotional video with all these possibly stoned out synth players being enraptured by the sound – it’s awesomely other-worldly and demonstrates just how far away they are from the budget end of the market – and so they should be. The 8-voice will cost you £6000, the 16 voice £7799. It’s an immense and expensive synthesizer that’s elegantly traditional and solid. It also has some digital effects at the end of the chain from Eventide. It’s capable of handling thousands of presets but loads them up in banks of 64 with each one being instantly selectable. They say there’s more power in a single voice of the Moog One than there is in the whole Moog Voyager – which will probably piss off a lot of Voyager owners. Each voice has 3 oscillators and then there’s filters and envelopes and modulation and all the usual stuff arranged across 200 knobs. All analogue in 8 or 16 voice versions and 3 part multitimbral. The Moog One is a beautiful chunk of an instrument.

Moog have finally revealed the successor to the MemoryMoog – the hugely polyphonic Moog One. I didn’t get to any of the seminars – i was just there for the gear and the people. Lots of lovely people came and said hello which was fabulous – thanks! The crowd is still overwhelmingly white male but there was a bit more diversity and a larger proportion of women running stands. But it was a super day – it has such a great vibe, cool, relaxed, fun nothing like any other trade or gear show i’ve been to. Turns out that when i said they were going to lend me one for review i completely imagined it. Nina from Transistor Sound Labs gave me a demo of their cool new Stepper drums prototype, and i got a run through with the analogue solutions Generator. Tried the Modal Sculpt – it was a bit weird – made a fabulous drone on the Studio Electronics Boom Star – had a go on the Grandmother which was pretty sweet and the Erica Synths Techno system which does exactly what it says on the tin. I wasn’t bowled over by anything new and exciting this year but I did get the opportunity to have a fiddle with a number of things. Everyone was there – the big names like Korg, Yamaha, Roland, Arturia and Moog but also the little names and individuals like Future Sound Systems, Soulsby, Expert Sleepers, Erica Synths and loads more. It’s a synth show held up in Sheffield and hosted by Sound On Sound magzine. So it’s become a bit of a pilgrimage for me. It was the place only 2 years ago that i first grasped the concept of Eurorack and fell headfirst down the modular rabbit hole.

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